Tag: Concentration Camps
Annual Holocaust march faces major challenge as survivors pass away
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...
At Mauthausen, Austrian chancellor assures Lapid of fight against Jew-hatred
Israeli Foreign Minister Yair Lapid and Austrian Chancellor Karl Nehammer visited the site of the Mauthausen concentration camp in Austria on Thursday to mark International Holocaust Remembrance Day.
Lapid spoke in the presence of Austrian...
March of the Living UK focuses on nuance as it brings delegation to Germany...
GERMANY—The two provocateurs who approached the group at the Ravensbrück concentration camp in Germany at the end of October knew what they were doing. What they probably didn’t realize was that they helped cement...
Concentration-camp guard to stand trial for 3,518 murders between 1942 and 1945
A former guard at the Sachsenhausen concentration camp who will stand trial in Germany this month is accused of being complicit in 3,518 murders, reported The Times.
The 100-year-old man, whose name has not been released...
Memorial honoring 102,000 Dutch victims of Holocaust opens in Amsterdam
A new memorial in Amsterdam’s Jewish Cultural Quarter pays tribute to the more than 102,000 Dutch victims of the Holocaust, the Associated Press reported.
The National Holocaust Memorial of Names, which was unveiled on Sunday, is comprised of...
Spanish university cancels course comparing Gaza to Auschwitz
A university in Spain canceled a course that would have examined comparisons between the Auschwitz concentration camp and the Gaza Strip after facing backlash from a local pro-Israel group.
The University of Santiago de Compostela’s...
German prosecutors prepare dozen-plus cases against Nazi war-crime suspects
Prosecutors in Germany are getting ready to bring forward more than a dozen legal cases against elderly men and women for their alleged work at Nazi concentration camps during the Holocaust.
Prosecutors confirmed last week that a...
German court to try 100-year-old former Nazi guard
A German court set a date to try a 100-year-old former Nazi SS guard who served at a concentration camp outside of Berlin during World War II, a spokeswoman for the Neuruppin state court...
Auschwitz survivor who used music to help combat racism, anti-Semitism dies at 96
Holocaust survivor Esther Bejarano died on July 10 at the Jewish Hospital in Hamburg, Germany, at the age of 96, according to The Associated Press.
Born in 1924 in the French-occupied German town of Saarlouis, Bejarano...
Roman Kent, who reminded world of Holocaust, dies at 96
The Jewish Foundation for the Righteous reported the death of its longtime president, Roman Kent, who passed away on May 21 at his home in New York City. He was 96 years old.
A Holocaust...