Auschwitz was liberated 80 years ago. The spotlight is on survivors as their numbers dwindle
The main observances take place at the site in southern Poland where Nazi Germany murdered over a million people ...
80 years after Auschwitz: Memory culture in Germany
Germany commemorates the victims of Nazi atrocities on Holocaust Remembrance Day, reflecting on its dark past. Amidst rising ...
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‘I saw thousands of tortured people… so thin they swayed like branches in the wind’ – survivors gather to mark liberation of Auschwitz
The world’s focus will be on the remaining survivors of Nazi Germany’s atrocities today as world leaders join them for commemorations on the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz. The main ...
On Holocaust Remembrance Day, looking for the righteous in Gaza | Opinion
On International Holocaust Remembrance Day, a former fellow of the Hannah Arendt Center at Bard College and the Holocaust ...
Holocaust survivor recalls horrors on 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz
Renee Salt, now aged 95, was a prisoner at Auschwitz, before she was moved to Bergen-Belsen which was later liberated by the ...
Holocaust memorial chair: Musk’s call for Germany to ‘move beyond’ Nazi guilt is dangerous
The chair of Yad Vashem, Israel’s official Holocaust memorial, said Sunday tech billionaire Elon Musk’s call for Germans to ...
How individual, ordinary Jews fought Nazi persecution − a new view of history
Finding the stories of individual Jews who fought the Nazis publicly and at great peril helped a scholar see history ...
The Holocaust in North Africa: Antisemitic laws and forced labor camps
Despite their distance from European centers, the Jews of North Africa were forcefully displaced to detention and labor camps ...
‘Never forget’: Auschwitz survivor recalls Nazi crimes ahead of anniversary
Doniecka, who goes to Auschwitz every year on the anniversary of its liberation, said that it was important for her to attend ...
Silence pervades Auschwitz on the eve of the 80th anniversary of the camp’s liberation
Silence pervades the site of Auschwitz-Birkenau today. Sometimes the only sounds are the soft footsteps of visitors, people ...
Newton couple donates Ritchie Boy’s cello, other artifacts to US Holocaust Memorial Museum
Gans died in 2012 at age 89, but now his cello, along with its bow and other artifacts from his life, have been donated by ...
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Elon Musk Tells Extremist AfD Party Rally That Germans Need to “Move On” from “Past Guilt”
"It's good to be proud of German culture, German values, and not to lose that in some sort of multiculturalism that dilutes everything," he said in a virtual visit.