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The Auschwitz-Birkenau Concentration Camp in Poland on May 10, 2017. Photo by Isaac Harari/Flash90.

Catholic Church symbolism again becomes an issue near death grounds of Auschwitz

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The protest outside the church at Birkenau during last month’s commemoration of the 75th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz death camp should not have come as a surprise. The presence of Christian symbols...
World Jewish Congress president Ronald S. Lauder at Auschwitz concentration and extermination camp for ceremonies marking the 70th year of its liberation by Allied forces, January 2015. Credit: European Jewish Press.

Auschwitz liberation ceremony draws world leaders, Holocaust survivors and their families

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On the hallowed grounds of Auschwitz-Birkenau on Monday, Holocaust survivors and world leaders gathered to commemorate the 75 anniversary of the liberation of the camp, where a stark message about the growth of anti-Semitism...
One of the most famous pictures of Jews being rounded up by Nazi Germans during the Holocaust, this from the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising in May 1943. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.

US House passes Never Again Education Act on International Holocaust Remembrance Day

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On International Holocaust Remembrance Day, which commemorates the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau, the U.S. House of Representatives overwhelmingly passed on Monday the Never Again Education Act, a bill that seeks to...
Ida and Avraham Ehrenreich. Sent on transport #31 from Drancy to Auschwitz on Sept. 11, 1942. Credit: Courtesy.

Auschwitz 1942: The story behind my missing grandparents

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As a child growing up in the small English town that offered refuge for my parents in their flight from the Nazis, I was acutely aware of many differences between my own family and...
A bipartisan congressional delegation, led by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), pays its respects at the Auschwitz. Credit: Nancy Pelosi/Twitter.

Congressional delegation visits Auschwitz ahead of 75th anniversary of liberation

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A congressional delegation, led by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), visited Auschwitz on Tuesday ahead of the 75th anniversary of the liberation of the concentration and extermination camp. Pelosi laid a wreath at the “Death...
Women in the barracks of the newly liberated Auschwitz concentration camp. Credit: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of National Archives and Records Administration, College Park, Md.

Amid surging anti-Semitism, 75th commemoration of Auschwitz liberation comes at crucial time

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“To forget would be not only dangerous but offensive; to forget the dead would be akin to killing them a second time.” ― Elie Wiesel, “Night” Seventy-five: It’s the average lifespan of an American male...
Fatah threatens the burning of Jewish towns as part of continued terrorism against Israelis and as an effort, along with the proposition of murder. to stop the Fifth World Holocaust Forum and other commemorative memorials from taking place during the week of Jan. 19, 2020. Source: Palestinian Media Watch.

Holocaust remembrance, Palestinian irrelevance

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As the nearly 50 heads of state from around the globe began preparing for their arrival in Israel this week to attend the Fifth World Holocaust Forum—on the occasion of the 75th anniversary of the...
Piero Terracina in Italy during a talk about the Holocaust, March 5, 2010. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.

Italian Jewish survivor of Auschwitz dies at age 91

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A man considered the last remaining survivor of Roman Jews who were deported from Italy’s capital to Nazi death camps during World War II died on Sunday at the age of 91. Piero Terracina was...
German Chancellor Angela Merkel at Auschwitz-Birkenau on Dec. 6, 2019. Source: Auschwitz Memorial via Twitter.

Merkel pledges $66 million donation from Germany to Auschwitz-Birkenau Foundation

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Germany will donate $66 million to the Auschwitz-Birkenau Foundation, German Chancellor Angela Merkel announced on Friday during her first-ever visit to the former Nazi concentration camp. The funds, half to come from Germany’s federal government and half...
The main gate of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp. Credit: Angelo Celedon via Wikimedia Commons.

Amazon removes ornaments showing images of Auschwitz

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Amazon has removed Christmas ornaments, a bottle opener and a mouse pad that showed images of the Auschwitz concentration camps amid a backlash from the memorial that manages the site where the Nazis killed...