Posts Tagged: Auschwitz
Appointment of Hardline Nationalist to Auschwitz Museum Council Intensifies Fears Over Polish Government’s Holocaust Commemoration Policies
The appointment of a hardline nationalist politician to the Polish government's advisory council for the Auschwitz concentration camp triggered the resignations of three experts on...
Capitol Hill Rioter Who Wore ‘Camp Auschwitz’ Shirt Identified as Virginia ‘Extremist’
The Capitol Hill insurgent whose "Camp Auschwitz" sweatshirt became one of the most viewed images of last Wednesday's storming of the US legislature has been...
Auschwitz Survivor Who Helped Convict SS War Criminal in German Court Dies at Age 95
A survivor of the Auschwitz death camp who assisted a German court in convicting an SS war criminal passed away on Tuesday in Chemnitz --...
Auschwitz Memorial and Museum Weighs in on Controversy Over Tearing Down Statues
The Memorial and Museum at Auschwitz-Birkenau, which maintains the remains of the death camp where a million Jews were murdered during the Holocaust, weighed in...
Henri Kichka, 94, Belgian Holocaust Survivor
Henri Kichka, one of the last remaining Holocaust survivors from Belgium, died April 25 from the coronavirus. On Facebook, his son Michel, a noted cartoonist, said...
Arab Recognition of the Holocaust
Muslim World Society chairman Saudi Sheik Muhammad Issa visited Auschwitz on January 23 with a delegation of leading Muslim clerics. One of the most prominent was Lebanese...
Auschwitz and The New York Times, 75 Years Later
Our weekly issue of Life magazine, dated May 7, 1945, arrived on my ninth birthday. Its cover photo showed three solemn men, one with his...
‘Only Eyes’: Auschwitz Liberator Recalls Death Camp Inmates 75 Years On
His jacket sparkling with war medals, 96-year old David Dushman holds back the tears as he remembers the eyes of emaciated prisoners at the Nazi...
Why Is There a Church at the Largest Jewish Cemetery in the World?
World leaders are planning to gather at Auschwitz this year to commemorate the 75th anniversary of its liberation, and Auschwitz survivors will be guests at...
German Chancellor Merkel Expresses ‘Shame’ During Auschwitz Visit, Vows to Fight Antisemitism
Angela Merkel expressed "deep shame" on Friday during her first visit as chancellor to the Auschwitz-Birkenau Holocaust memorial and vowed to fight rising racism and...
75 Years Since Elie Wiesel Was Sent to Auschwitz
Seventy-five years ago this week, Elie Wiesel was deported from Sighet, Romania -- a small town in the Carpathian mountains -- at the age of...
March of the Living Transcends Distinctions to Provide a Deeply Meaningful Jewish Experience
JNS.org - There are no words for the experience of commemorating the horrific deaths, together with Holocaust survivors, on the sacred grounds of the Birkenau extermination...
US Vice President Pence at Auschwitz: We Must Not Be Silent in Face of Evil
US Vice President Mike Pence visited the former German Nazi death camp of Auschwitz in Poland on Friday, amid a four-day trip to Europe. Around 1.1...
Survivors of Nazi Genocide Speak at Annual UN Holocaust Memorial Ceremony in New York
Two survivors of the Nazi genocide took part on Monday in the UN's annual Holocaust Memorial Ceremony in New York. In remarks at the event, 92-year-old Marian Turski...
