
A group of Israelis visiting the site of Auschwitz death camp have slammed as “distasteful” and “offensive” the decision to install mist-spray showers near the entrance to the museum. But managers of the memorial site have defended their decision, explaining
by Donna Rachel Edmunds1 Sep 2015, 8:36 AM PST0

When Irving Roth walked out of the Auschwitz concentration camp in April 1945, having watched in horror as members of his family were marched into the gas chamber upon their arrival the previous year, he was thankful that he would live to see his sixteenth birthday.
by Paul Miller13 Jul 2015, 10:45 AM PST0

The French National Assembly voted on Wednesday to distribute $60 million to non-French victims of the Holocaust. The fund is set to be administered by the United States. It will be distributed to foreign nationals who were deported from France to Nazi death camps, especially Auschwitz, on French rail lines.
by Michael Lucchese25 Jun 2015, 5:50 PM PST0

Current “anti-Semitic trends in Europe” are a cause for worry, said Pope Francis Monday morning, as are accompanying “acts of hatred and violence.”
by Thomas D. Williams, Ph.D.20 Apr 2015, 5:23 AM PST0

Pop singer Katy Perry took some time away from the music Wednesday to pay a visit to the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum, where more than one million people were murdered in the Holocaust of the Second World War.
by Kipp Jones26 Feb 2015, 11:23 AM PST0

A man who allegedly worked at the Auschwitz death camp in Poland during the Second World War is facing trial in Germany. The 93-year-old, who cannot be named because of privacy laws, stands accused of 170,000 counts of accessory to murder
by A.B. Sanderson18 Feb 2015, 6:20 AM PST0

Riccardo Pacifici, the president of Rome’s Jewish community, had an eerie and awful experience when visiting Auschwitz with a TV crew to commemorate the liberation of Auschwitz: he found himself locked inside the camp.
by William Bigelow29 Jan 2015, 8:04 AM PST0

Shoah Foundation founder and Academy Award-winning director Steven Spielberg joined Holocaust survivors and dozens of world leaders at the Auschwitz concentration camp in Krakow Tuesday for the 70th anniversary of the liberation of the death camp where over one million Jews lost their lives in World War II.
by Daniel Nussbaum27 Jan 2015, 12:35 PM PST0

On Tuesday morning Pope Francis sent out a tweet commemorating the 70th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz.
by Thomas D. Williams, Ph.D.27 Jan 2015, 12:03 PM PST0

Tuesday marks the seventieth anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi Auschwitz death camp in southern Poland. The Nazis who ran the execution site were responsible for the slaughter of over one million people within a five-year timespan, with the vast majority of them being Jews. In Auschwitz alone, from 1940-1945, the Nazis killed roughly six-hundred people per day, twenty-five per hour, one every 144 seconds.
by Jordan Schachtel27 Jan 2015, 9:55 AM PST0

January 27 marks the 70th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp. Located in occupied Poland, Auschwitz-Birkenau was the most infamous German death camp, in which over a million Jews, Romani, and others whom the Nazi regime deemed unfit for life were gassed and murdered.
by Jarrett Stepman27 Jan 2015, 9:37 AM PST0

Netanyahu has one basic responsibility: to protect the security of the State of Israel, the homeland of the Jewish people. That is why Ambassador Ron Dermer is correct to call Netanyahu’s speech to Congress a “sacred duty.”
by Joel B. Pollak27 Jan 2015, 6:47 AM PST0

Seventy years ago I was in a Nazi concentration camp.
by Breitbart News26 Jan 2015, 6:20 AM PST0