Auschwitz-Birkenau

Dr. Rafael Medoff Dr. Rafael Medoff is founding director of The David S. Wyman Institute for Holocaust Studies, and author of more than 20 books about the Holocaust, Zionism, and US Jewish history. His latest book, The Jews Should Keep Quiet: President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Rabbi Stephen S. Wise, and…

An energetic chaos pulses through the Berlin International Film Festival, Europes largest film festival and the place to see more than 400 films screened across a dizzying array of sections. Reflective of the city itself, the Berlinale, as its known here, is … Read More

The first commandant of the Nazi labor camp at Plaszow successfully hid his identity after World War II. But now, the true story of Horst Pilarzik's secret life has come to light. A sporty Mercedes with a handsome man at the wheel pulls up at the sidewalk. Nearby, a young…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Hollywood mustered its creative forces in the 1940s when Adolf Hitler’s Nazi Germany sought to conquer the world, with Humphrey Bogart standing up to the fascist regime in “Casablanca” and director Ernst Lubitsch mocking it and its dictator in “To Be or Not to Be.” More…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Hollywood mustered its creative forces in the 1940s when Adolf Hitler’s Nazi Germany sought to conquer the world, with Humphrey Bogart standing up to the fascist regime in “Casablanca” and director Ernst Lubitsch mocking it and its dictator in “To Be or Not to Be.” More…

Amazon has stopped sales of some books on its platform following protests that the titles, including some for children, were Nazi-era propaganda, a source familiar with the matter said Tuesday. The move came days after the Auschwitz museum called on the US tech firm to remove Nazi-era anti-Semitic children’s books…

By Monika ScislowskaThe Associated PressMon., Feb. 24, 2020timer2 min. readWARSAW, Poland - The museum of the Nazi German Auschwitz death camp is objecting to a scene in a new Amazon TV series that shows a murderous game of human chess being played there, insisting that no such thing took place…

By MONIKA SCISLOWSKA Associated Press | Feb 24, 2020 | 8:22 AM The museum of the Nazi German Auschwitz death camp is objecting to a scene in a new Amazon TV series that shows a murderous game of human chess being played there, insisting that no such thing took place…

Hungarys recent update of its National Basic Curriculum, a set of guidelines and standards about what should be taught in public schools, sparked a heated public discussion here at home. But the debate remained within professional, pedagogical boundaries. Wit… Read More

On 27 January 1945, Soviet troops entered Auschwitz-Birkenau, the centre of the Nazi mass-extermination effort, where more than 1 million people were gassed, worked and starved to death during the World War.Nearly three in four people in Poland know it was the Red Army that liberated Auschwitz and about two…