WARSAW, Poland (AP) – Warsaw’s mayor has unveiled a monument to a World War II hero who volunteered to go to Auschwitz and informed firsthand on the atrocities there but later was killed by the communist regime. Witold PILECKI Polish resistance
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Poland’s historians have put online what they say is the most complete list of Nazi SS commanders and guards at the former German death camp of Auschwitz.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu noted the uptick in antisemitism across Europe and the ongoing Iranian nuclear threat during an event marking International Holocaust Remembrance Day at the Yad Vashem museum in Jerusalem.
On International Holocaust Remembrance Day, Pope Francis summoned the world to remember the victims of the Holocaust so that this atrocity can never be repeated. On Friday morning, the Pope met with a delegation from the European Jewish Congress, which
Thirty top religious leaders from Israel’s Christian, Druze, Jewish and Muslim communities on Wednesday condemned extremism and “hatred of the other” during a landmark visit to Auschwitz.
Their hair styled and make-up applied, a group of elderly women carefully take to a red carpet catwalk, waving, blowing kisses and posing for pictures to cheering crowds.
On Wednesday, Pope Francis greeted a group of 33 survivors of the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp after his general audience in St Peter’s Square.
Germany has presented a wave of recent trials of elderly former Auschwitz personnel as an 11th-hour bid for long-delayed justice, but the latest proceedings have provoked a strong backlash.
After 100 years of waiting, the oldest man alive is finally getting the celebration he deserves – a bar or bat mitzvah.
German author and Holocaust revisionist Ursula Haverbeck, age 87, was sentenced to serve eight months in jail after claiming that no Jews were murdered in Auschwitz.
TEL AVIV – A Czech tour bus advertising Nazi death camp Auschwitz as an attractive holiday destination has been slammed by Jewish leaders and Holocaust survivors.
TEL AVIV – A teacher at a Catholic high school in Belgium won an award and cash prize for Iran’s Holocaust cartoon contest, receiving praise from her colleagues who said they were proud of her.
Iran has become the first country to ban popular smartphone game Pokemon Go, citing “security concerns.”
Israel for decades has been purchasing gas masks from the same German suppliers that once supplied protective equipment to Nazi soldiers operating the gas chambers in Auschwitz and other death camps during the Holocaust.
Pope Francis was set to meet Holocaust survivors at the former Auschwitz death camp in Poland Friday, as well as people who risked their lives to save Jews from the Nazis.
Three so-called Stolpersteine were stolen from Graaf Florisstraat and Mathenesserlaan in Rotterdam, RTV Rijnmond reports.
As part of his weeklong trip to Poland for World Youth Day, Pope Francis has announced he will be visiting the Auschwitz extermination camp this Friday, where Nazi soldiers put to death over a million prisoners, most of them Jews.
Almost 30 minutes of legendary comedian and filmmaker Jerry Lewis’ long-hidden Holocaust drama, The Day the Clown Cried, has surfaced online in a rough edit format pulled from footage of a German documentary about the 1972 original movie.
A 94-year-old former Auschwitz guard was convicted on Friday of being an accessory to the murder of at least 170,000 people, at the end of what is likely to be one of Germany’s last Holocaust trials.
The Auschwitz museum said Tuesday it has recovered 16,000 long-lost items belonging to Jews killed at the Nazi death camp, decades after they were stored away and forgotten by Poland’s former communist regime.
DETMOLD, Germany (AP) — A 94-year-old former SS sergeant admitted in court Friday that he had served as an Auschwitz death camp guard, apologizing to Nazi Holocaust survivors looking on in a German courtroom that even though he was aware Jews were being gassed and their corpses burned, he did nothing to try to stop it.
A 94-year-old former Auschwitz guard on trial in Germany over accusations that he was an accessory to the murder of at least 170,000 people is on Friday expected to have a statement read out by his lawyers in court. Holocaust
The death of a former Auschwitz guard days before his trial in Germany has dashed the hopes of two elderly Jewish survivors of Nazi rule who wanted to see justice for their parents, who perished while the guard was on
TEL AVIV – An Israeli high school principal caused controversy by canceling his school’s annual trip to former Nazi death camps in Poland because they were becoming “social occasions rather than learning experiences,” the Jerusalem Post reported. “I didn’t make the
The trial of a former Auschwitz medic for abetting 3,681 murders was suspended for the second time in two weeks Monday, raising fresh questions whether the case can proceed. A court in the eastern town of Neubrandenburg halted proceedings against
BERLIN (AFP) – Two former SS men will go on trial this month for their alleged complicity in the murder of thousands of people at Auschwitz, as Germany accelerates its bid to prosecute ageing Third Reich criminals. Reinhold Hanning, 93, faces court
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
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.
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.
Current “anti-Semitic trends in Europe” are a cause for worry, said Pope Francis Monday morning, as are accompanying “acts of hatred and violence.”
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.
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
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.
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.
On Tuesday morning Pope Francis sent out a tweet commemorating the 70th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz.
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.
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.
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.”
