Auschwitz-Birkenau

At this year’s Cannes Film Festival, the Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and Museum announced the launch of a new digital replica of the concentration camp for filmmakers. Titled Picture from Auschwitz, the virtual film location is designed to facilitate a range of productions set on the grounds, where preservation regulations currently restrict…

At this year’s Cannes Film Festival, the Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and Museum announced the launch of a new digital replica of the concentration camp for filmmakers. Titled Picture from Auschwitz, the virtual film location is designed to facilitate a range of productions set on the grounds, where preservation regulations currently restrict…

Jerusalem Post / Israel News / Israel Sports Israel National Team balances remembrance and readiness ahead of EuroBasket tip-off Ahead of their EuroBasket debut, Israel’s national basketball team visited Auschwitz and Birkenau, reflecting on history and finding unity as they prepare to face Iceland. ISRAEL PLAYERS Guy Palatin (left) and…

Israel's president said in Poland on Thursday the return of hostages held by Palestinian militants in Gaza was a "universal moral imperative" and called on the international community to help end "this horrific humanitarian crime". Isaac Herzog spoke from the southern city of Oswiecim, the site of the former Nazi…

Deputy Secretary General, Bjørn Berge attended the commemoration ceremony in Poland of the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the former German Nazi concentration and extermination camp Auschwitz-Birkenau. Around 50 survivors returned to the death camp and it was decided that at this anniversary there should be no political speeches,…

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The Honourable Mélanie Joly, Minister of Foreign Affairs, and the Honourable Kamal Khera, Minister of Diversity, Inclusion and Persons with Disabilities, released the following statement on International Holocaust Remembrance Day: "Today we mark 80 years since the liberation of the Auschwitz Birkenau German Nazi Concentration and Extermination Camp in occupied…

'It's impossible to leave all the history behind and not take it home with you,' says guide Jacek Paluch - Copyright the Hostages Families Forum Headquarters/AFP -, Ahmad GHARABLI Bernard OSSER Barbed wire lines the road to work for Pawel Sawicki, deputy spokesman of the Auschwitz museum at the site of…

OŚWIĘCIM, Poland — The Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial & Museum in Poland is facing pressure to weigh in on contemporary politics and current conflicts around race and ethnicity.Why it matters: The museum will mark in January the 80th anniversary of the Auschwitz liberation by the Soviet Union as aging Holocaust survivors urge the…

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — The Auschwitz-Birkenau memorial museum has denounced a political spot by Poland’s ruling party that uses the theme of the Nazi German extermination camp to discourage participation in an upcoming anti-government march. The state-run museum attacked “instrumentalization of the tragedy” of the 1.1 million people who were…