Auschwitz-Birkenau

The exhibition ‘Racial Diagnosis: Gypsy’ at the National Museum of Kosovo displays photographs of Roma and Sinti people who were killed at the Nazis’ Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp during World War II. This post is also available in this language: Shqip Bos/Hrv/Srp The exhibition ‘Racial Diagnosis: Gypsy’ opened on Thursday evening…

(April 18, 2023 / JNS) This year’s March of the Living, the annual tribute to the 6 million held at the site of the former German death camp Auschwitz in Poland, is being conducted under the theme of “Honoring Jewish heroism in the Holocaust.” The event is taking place Wednesday,…

April 17, 2023 | 8:17pm Meek Mill and Robert Kraft have traveled to Poland together for Kraft’s Foundation to Combat Antisemitism.Page Six Billionaire Patriots owner Robert Kraft has taken his friend Meek Mill with him to Poland to participate in the 35th International March of the Living, and to commemorate…

Survivors of Auschwitz-Birkenau are gathering Friday to commemorate the 78th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi German death camp in the final months of World War II, amid the horror of war again shattering peace in Europe. The former concentration and extermination camp is located in the town of…

A Ukrainian Military Forces serviceman, looks on in a dugout on the frontline with Russia-backed separatists near Gorlivka, Donetsk region on January 23, 2022. AFP PHOTO WASHINGTON, D.C.: The United States has ordered the families of its diplomats to leave Ukraine, as rising fears of a Russian invasion pushed Western…

STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - NATO allies share an "unwavering commitment" to Ukraine's sovereignty, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Thursday, hours before he meets Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov amid escalating East-West tensions over Ukraine. Blinken, speaking at the start of talks with Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba, reiterated…

WARSAW, Poland — Police and prosecutors in southern Poland are investigating graffiti in English and German that appeared on multiple buildings at the Auschwitz-Birkenau Museum, the site of the former Nazi German death camp. A security guard found the graffiti Tuesday sprayed on nine wooden barracks in an area where…

The graffiti included statements in English and German, as well as two references to often-used Old Testament sayings frequently used by antisemites. By REUTERS   OCTOBER 6, 2021 05:16 PHOTOGRAPH OF Auschwitz-Birkenau taken in February 2017. (photo credit: MARC ISRAEL SELLEM) Antisemitic graffiti has been discovered on barracks on the…

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Three members of an advisory council for the Auschwitz-Birkenau museum in Poland have resigned after the government appointed former Polish Prime Minister Beata Szydlo, a top member of the country’s right-wing ruling party, to serve on the council. Culture Minister Piotr Glinski recently appointed Szydlo to…

In December 1943, a 20-year-old named Ruth Elias arrived in a cattle car at the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp. She was assigned to Block 6 in the family camp, a barracks that housed young women and the camp’s male orchestra, an ensemble of incarcerated violinists, clarinet players, accordion players and percussionists…