Tag: Concentration Camps
Minnesota high-schoolers apologize for TikTok video mocking Auschwitz
Two high school students in Minnesota apologized for posting a clip on the popular video-sharing app that pokes fun at Jews who were sent to the Auschwitz concentration camp.
In the TikTok video titled “Me...
Germany commemorates liberation of Bergen-Belsen with a minute of silence
Germany held a minute of silence on Wednesday to mark 75 years since the liberation of the Bergen-Belsen Nazi concentration camp on April 15, 1945.
Events commemorating the liberation that were originally planned for Sunday...
March of the Living program in Poland postponed due to coronavirus
March of the Living, the largest annual international Holocaust-education program that takes groups to the grounds of Auschwitz-Birkenau in Poland and then Israel, will not take place in this month because of concerns related...
US to deport former Nazi concentration-camp guard living in Tennessee
The U.S. Department of Justice announced on Thursday that a former Nazi concentration-camp guard who was living in Tennessee has been ordered to return to Germany.
Following a two-day trial, U.S. Immigration Judge Rebecca L. Holt issued...
Parade in Spain features Nazi costumes, float resembling Auschwitz entrance
A Holocaust-themed parade that took place in Spain recently featured participants dressed as Adolf Hitler and Nazi concentration-camp prisoners.
The display on Feb. 23 in Badajos followed similar processions the same week in Aalst, Belgium and Campo de Criptana, Spain.
During...
Artist’s series on display for first time in Croatia depicts Holocaust victims, partisans
An exhibition of 30 paintings and graphic works titled “Nazi Occupation in Graphic Works of Meer Axelrod” opened in Zagreb, the capital of Croatia—the first time the artist’s works have been shown in the...
Prime minister of Holland apologizes for nation’s role in wartime persecution of Jews
Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte on Sunday became the first Dutch leader to officially apologize for his country’s role in the Holocaust.
Speaking at an event in Amsterdam to mark the 75th anniversary of the...
Auschwitz 1942: The story behind my missing grandparents
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...
Senior Saudi religious leader leads Muslim delegation on visit to Auschwitz
A senior Saudi religious leader led a delegation of Muslim leaders on a visit of the former Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp in Poland on Thursday timed to the 75th anniversary of its liberation.
Sheikh Mohammed al-Issa,...
Congressional delegation visits Auschwitz ahead of 75th anniversary of liberation
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...