Posts Tagged: Auschwitz
Far-Right Protesters Gather at Auschwitz During Annual Camp Liberation Commemoration
Dozens of Polish far-right nationalists gathered at the Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland on Sunday to protest at the same time as officials and survivors...
Israel Expresses Dismay Over Romanian Farm Minister’s Auschwitz Remark
Israel reacted with "dismay and disappointment" on Thursday to a comment by Romanian Agriculture Minister Petre Daea, who compared the slaughter of sick pigs to the...
Israeli, Polish Presidents March Together at Auschwitz on Yom HaShoah
The presidents of Poland and Israel marched together at the Auschwitz concentration camp on Thursday, putting aside their differences over a new law that makes it a...
German Court Rules ‘Bookkeeper of Auschwitz,’ 96, Must Go to Jail
Germany's constitutional court has ruled that a 96-year-old German must go to jail over his role in mass murders committed at the Nazi death camp...
Rivers of Tears for Israel’s Fallen Soldiers
I did not cry upon my third visit to Auschwitz last week. My daughters did, but I didn’t. I can’t quite explain why. Perhaps it...
At Auschwitz, the Dead Wish to March With the Living
Once again, I have found myself lost amid the remains of Auschwitz. The last time I was here, I visited with a delegation from the Israeli...
‘My Bath House Hotter Than Auschwitz Ovens,’ Says Owner of Siberian Sauna to Explain Nazi Imagery in Name, Advertising
A bath house in Sibera named after a Nazi Military Intelligence unit and advertised with the slogan “Auschwitz ain't got nothin' on us," has caused...
Holocaust Survivors Mark 72 Years Since Auschwitz Liberation
Dozens of Auschwitz survivors placed wreaths and flowers Friday at the infamous execution wall of the former German death camp, paying homage to the victims...
Medical Students at University of São Paulo Using Remains of ‘Angel of Death’ Josef Mengele to Match Forensics, Historical Data
A Brazilian pathologist is now using the bones of infamous Nazi doctor Josef Mengele, known by the Auschwitz inmates he tortured as the “Angel of...
Is Poland Normalizing Auschwitz?
What is life like in a town that's associated with the biggest crime in history, but that's also a thriving city where people go about their daily lives? The town...
Dolls Taken From Young French Jewish Sisters Deported to Auschwitz Given to Holocaust Museum in Paris
Two dolls that were taken from a pair of young French Jewish sisters in 1944 as they were deported to Auschwitz from where they never...
World’s Oldest Working Journalist, 90-Year-Old Holocaust Survivor Noah Klieger, Fears Nazi Genocide Will Be Forgotten in 50 Years
One of Israel’s best-known Holocaust survivors told a packed audience in Tel Aviv on Tuesday evening about his genuine fear that the Nazi genocide will...
Thousands of Personal Belongings of Jews Slaughtered in Auschwitz Recovered in ‘Historic’ Find
More than 16,000 lost items belonging to Jewish inmates at the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration and death camp were recently recovered in a "historic" find, the Auschwitz Museum in...
Holocaust Survivor Files Lawsuit Against Hungarian National Railway for Crimes Against Humanity and Abetting Genocide
A group of lawyers representing a Hungarian Holocaust victim have sued Hungary's national railways in the Hungarian Court "for transporting and profiteering from the Hungarian Holocaust," The Algemeiner learned...
