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Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall Reveals Her Personal Connection to Domestic Violence: ‘It Affects Everybody’ Auschwitz-Birkenau

Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall Reveals Her Personal Connection to Domestic Violence: ‘It Affects Everybody’

Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall is opening up about an important issue that has affected those close to her: domestic violence. After hosting a reception for the 15th anniversary of SafeLives, a U.K.-based organization dedicated to ending domestic abuse, at Clarence House on Wednesday, Camilla, 72, revealed that her own friends have…
bubmag
February 13, 2020
134° Auschwitz-Birkenau

134°

A well written book, often unsettling which is to be expected considering the subject matterGreat book. Had the audible version.Best book I've read in the last year. Loved it.agree, very good book, looking to get cilkas journey nextgoogle.ca/amp…treI went last year to the memorial centre. The scale...the horror....jesus h.Whilst I…
bubmag
February 9, 2020
A Catholic Polish midwife who delivered 3,000 babies at Auschwitz remembered 75 years after camp’s liberation Auschwitz-Birkenau

A Catholic Polish midwife who delivered 3,000 babies at Auschwitz remembered 75 years after camp’s liberation

This month marked 75 years since the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau, a concentration camp where an estimated 1.1 million people were murdered. But it was also where 3,000 babies were born because of the brave work of a Stanislawa Leszczyńska, a Polish Catho…
bubmag
February 5, 2020
Politics this week Auschwitz-Birkenau

Politics this week

A new coronavirus continued to spread rapidly in China. Several large cities were locked down in Hubei province, whose capital, Wuhan, is where the virus broke out. Streets emptied; people stayed at home. However, Wuhan’s mayor said that 5m people had left the city before the quarantine was imposed: some…
bubmag
January 30, 2020
Auschwitz Untold: New Holocaust documentary presents horrors of Nazi concentration camp in vivid colour Auschwitz-Birkenau

Auschwitz Untold: New Holocaust documentary presents horrors of Nazi concentration camp in vivid colour

An astonishing new documentary airing on Channel 4 on Wednesday night aims to convey the horrors of the Holocaust in a vivid new light. Auschwitz Untold: In Colour recasts contemporary black-and-white news footage recorded after the Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz-Birkenau was liberated by Red Army soldiers in January 1945 in naturalistic…
bubmag
January 28, 2020
Auschwitz Survivors Warn of Rising Global Anti-Semitism During 75th Anniversary of the Camp’s Liberation Auschwitz-Birkenau

Auschwitz Survivors Warn of Rising Global Anti-Semitism During 75th Anniversary of the Camp’s Liberation

OSWIECIM, Poland — Survivors of the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp prayed and wept as they marked the 75th anniversary of its liberation, returning Monday to the place where they lost entire families and warning about the ominous growth of anti-Semitism and ha…
bubmag
January 28, 2020
Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall Attends 75th Anniversary of Auschwitz-Birkenau Liberation Auschwitz-Birkenau

Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall Attends 75th Anniversary of Auschwitz-Birkenau Liberation

Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall commemorated the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau for Holocaust Memorial Day on Monday at a solemn service at the infamous death camp in Poland. Leading the U.K. delegation for the ceremony alongside Lord Eric Pickles, the U.K. Post-Holocaust Envoy, the duchess joined survivors and…
bubmag
January 27, 2020
Prince William, Duchess Kate mark 75th anniversary of Auschwitz liberation Auschwitz-Birkenau

Prince William, Duchess Kate mark 75th anniversary of Auschwitz liberation

On Monday, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge marked International Holocaust Remembrance Day by attending a ceremony held at Central Hall in Westminster, London.The service, which was joined by a number of high-profile religious and civic leaders from the United Kingdom, honored the victims and heroes of the Holocaust, as well…
bubmag
January 27, 2020