Photos show the horrors of Auschwitz, the largest and deadliest Nazi concentration camp, 80 years after its liberation
Over 1.1 million people were murdered at Auschwitz, including nearly a million Jews. On the day of liberation 80 years ago, only 7,000 were saved.
The Times of Israel8d
In the shadow of Auschwitz, a museum commemorates an ancient Polish Jewish community
OSWIECIM, Poland — Before their city became infamous ... She sees the walls of the concentration camp from her home, and sees her stewardship over the museum as a refutation of Hitler’s ...
PolskieRadio13d
Spanish news agency under fire for calling Auschwitz a ‘Polish camp’
Spain’s state-run news agency EFE has come under criticism for referring to the former Nazi German concentration camp Auschwitz as “el campo polaco de Auschwitz” (“the Polish camp of ...
London Evening Standard15d
King pays tribute to Holocaust survivors amid Auschwitz commemorations
Commemorations at the concentration camp began earlier when Poland’s president Andrzej Duda joined Auschwitz survivors in laying wreaths and candles at a symbolic site. Their tributes were left ...
WTVF4d
Holocaust survivor offers powerful history lesson
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WTVF) — It's been 80-years since the liberation of the notorious Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland. The anniversary was marked this past week with International Holocaust ...
The Globe and Mail11d
The Polish town standing in Auschwitz’s shadow strains between its fraught history and its future
He was an officer in the Polish army who was imprisoned and shot at Auschwitz in 1942 for organizing ... having fun a stone’s throw from a concentration camp,” an article in the local ...
ABC News15d
Auschwitz memorial marks the 80th anniversary of the death camp's liberation
The 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz by Soviet troops is being observed at the site of the former death camp OSWIECIM, Poland ... industry and this concentration camp, are ...
Polish president: We are 'guardians of memory' of crimes at Auschwitz
Polish President Andrzej Duda remembered the victims of the Nazis at the Auschwitz-Birkenau memorial site, as 80th anniversary commemorations got under way on Monday. "We Poles, on whose land occupied ...
The Press of Atlantic City10d
New Stockton exhibit commemorates liberation of Auschwitz
A new exhibit by Stockton University’s Sara and Sam Schoffer Holocaust Resource Center will commemorate the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz concentration camp. “Sweet Home ...
Sydney Morning Herald15d
At Auschwitz, a solemn 80th anniversary ceremony is held amid global rise in antisemitism
Oswiecim, Poland: Survivors of a notorious Nazi ... the memory of those who were murdered at the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp. “We Poles, on whose land occupied by Nazis Germans at ...
Auschwitz survivors warn of rising hatred on 80th anniversary of death camp's liberation
In all, the Nazi regime murdered 6 million Jews from all over Europe, annihilating two-thirds of Europe's Jews and one-third of all Jews worldwide. In 2005, the United Nations designated Jan. 27 as ...
The Intercept18d
Netanyahu Has an ICC Arrest Warrant. Poland’s Promise to Ignore It Would Be a “Grave Mistake.”
Allowing Israel’s indicted Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu safe passage to a Holocaust memorial service in Poland next Tuesday ... to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, and many of his ...