Tag: Auschwitz

While Israel and Jewish communities commemorate the Holocaust with a Yom Hashoah on the 27th day of the Hebrew month of Nisan (which this year falls on May 2), the rest of the world...

Revoking the terrible clauses in Poland’s controversial Holocaust law came too late. I’m happy to know our voices were heard, and that our protests against this unjust law made a difference. We are no longer...

Thirteen Ambassadors to the United Nations from Africa, Europe and Latin America visited the Auschwitz-Birkenau Nazi concentration camps in Poland today on Yom Hashoah (Israel’s Holocaust Remembrance Day), as part of the 30th annual...

New migrants to Germany must visit Nazi concentration camp memorials to help tackle a perceived rise in antisemitism, Germany’s Central Council of Jews said on Wednesday, supporting a proposal by a Palestinian-German politician. Antisemitism remains...

The memorial site of Auschwitz-Birkenau is weighing in on the anti-Semitic and racially charged violence that has erupted in the United States, noting that hatred comes from people who promote it. The state museum, which...

A new book, “The Auschwitz Volunteer: Beyond Bravery ” (Aquila Polonica: 2012), documents, in his own words, Pilecki’s remarkable exploits, and I can’t think of a better gift to give yourself for Khanukah. Pilecki was...

More than half a million people were believed to have died in the gas chambers of Auschwitz — the majority of them Jewish — making the Holocaust one of the biggest global tragedies in history....

Une véritable levée de boucliers. Des déclarations de la Première ministre polonaise Beata Szydlo mercredi à Auschwitz ont suscité de vives critiques d'hommes politiques polonais, ainsi que du président du Conseil européen Donald Tusk,...

Critics have denounced Poland’s prime minister for making comments during a memorial observance at Auschwitz that appeared to defend her tough anti-migrant policies. Beata Szydlo said that “in today’s restless times, Auschwitz is a great...

You probably know that very few families survived Auschwitz intact. But did you know that among them was a family with dwarfism? Born in Transylvania, 7 of the 10 Ovitz children inherited their father’s short stature. After his death...