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Never again would humanity let this happen?

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The United Nations established Jan. 27 as Holocaust Remembrance Day to mark the day in 1945 when Auschwitz was liberated. The German Nazis built Auschwitz and thousands of other concentration and death camps to imprison...

Educating about antisemitism

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My maternal grandmother is Jewish. That makes me Jewish according to Jewish law. As an agnostic—and for many other reasons—I go through peaks and troughs regarding my Jewish identity. But as author David Baddiel...
Lily Ebert and Walter Bingham at her home in London. Photo by Adam Lawrence/March of the Living UK.

Centenarian Holocaust survivors meet in London

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In an emotional encounter, two 100-year-old Holocaust survivors met last week in London, retracing their harrowing journeys through life. Germany-born Kindertransport survivor Walter Bingham, who holds the Guinness Book of World Records title for the world’s...
The visitor reception center of the Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and Museum, and the former prisoner reception center of Auschwitz I. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.

Elon Musk, Ben Shapiro tour Auschwitz-Birkenau site while in Poland

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Ahead of a conversation at a European Jewish Association event in Krakow, Poland, billionaire tech entrepreneur Elon Musk and Daily Wire co-founder Ben Shapiro took some time on Monday to tour the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp. Rabbi Menachem Margolin, chairman of the...
Shoes displayed at Auschwitz-Birkenau in 2018. Photo by Menachem Wecker.

March of Living raises $500,000 to conserve 8,000 shoes at Auschwitz museum

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The International March of the Living announced meeting the first “Soul to Sole” crowdfunding goal to conserve 8,000 shoes belonging to Jewish children who perished at Auschwitz-Birkenau. The group is partnering in the endeavor with...
Robert Clary as Lebeau and Cynthia Lynn as Fräulein Helga from the television program "Hogan's Heroes," 1965. Source: Wikimedia Commons.

Robert Clary, ‘Hogan’s Heroes’ star and Holocaust survivor, dies at 96

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Robert Clary, a Holocaust survivor best known as the French actor who starred in the CBS-TV series “Hogan’s Heroes,” died at his home in Los Angeles on Nov. 15 at age 96. Family members did not provide...

Preserving the children’s shoes found at Auschwitz

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The International March of the Living announced on Thursday a global campaign with the Auschwitz-Birkenau Foundation and the Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial to preserve thousands of shoes belonging to children, most of them Jews, who were murdered in the Auschwitz concentration...
Lily Ebert. Source: Twitter.

Auschwitz survivor, 98, wins Simon Wiesenthal Prize for Holocaust education

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A survivor of the Auschwitz concentration camp who became a social-media celebrity thanks to her great-grandson was one of four people to win a Simon Wiesenthal Prize. Lily Ebert, 98, was born in Hungary in...
Young participants in March of the Living at the Auschwitz concentration camp site. Photo by Yossi Zeliger.

Annual Holocaust march faces major challenge as survivors pass away

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The International March of the Living will take place in Poland on April 28 following a two-year hiatus due to COVID-19. Despite the ability to gather in person, organizers say they now face a...
Steel dies used by Nazi Germany to tattoo numbers on Jewish prisoners' arms during the Second World War. Photo: Yehonatan Shaul.

Owner of controversial Nazi tattoo kit to donate it to Holocaust museum

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The anonymous owner of a tattoo kit said to have been used on prisoners in the Auschwitz death camp informed an Israeli court on Thursday that he plans to donate it to the Haifa...