Born in Poland, her family moved to Hamburg; in 1939 she fled Nazi Germany for Shanghai, where she credits knitting as helping save her family before they moved to the US
Recent documents released by the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) have suggested a Polish prisoner of war in Auschwitz happily did the dirty work of the camp’s guards. It is the latest worrying example of how the Russian leader is weaponising the Holocaust to destabilise and disrupt neighbouring nations,
Marian Turski, a Holocaust survivor who became a journalist and historian in postwar Poland and was a co-founder of Warsaw’s landmark Jewish history museum, has died.
Mr Turski survived the Lodz Ghetto, extermination camp Auschwitz-Birkenau and two death marches as a teenager.
Dark tourism refers to the visiting of "incidences of death, disaster and atrocity" made while still "within living memory," according to the term's coiners, authors John Lennon and Malcolm Foley. Could be Hiroshima; could be Chernobyl. Lately, it is also absolutely Dachau and Auschwitz-Birkenau.
Dozens of Holocaust survivors call Arizona home. In fact, more than 70 survivors live in the Valley. Many, now in their late 90s, share their Holocaust survival experiences within a joint
Marian Turski, the Polish-Jewish historian, journalist, advocate of Polish-Jewish dialogue and a former prisoner of the World War Two Nazi-German death camp Auschwitz, has died at the age of 98.
By Georg Szalai Global Business Editor The movie paints a psychological portrait of Poland from the perspective of people living on Holocaust sites today. “Through a series of intimate vignettes ...
In a new installation at the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs titled “Looming in the Shadows of Łódź,” artist Leslie Starobin presents a multimedia portrayal of loss, family and memory during and after the Holocaust.
The massive scope of inhumanity by an authoritarian government should concern us all. The deceitful sign entering Auschwitz, “Arbeit Macht Frei” (“Work sets you free”), clashes with the constant admonition of survivors — “Nie Vergessen” (“Never Forget”).
Some people spend a portion of their lives searching for a passion. Others never stop chasing it. On this night, one man is proving that it’s never too late to take the stage.