Auschwitz-Birkenau

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…

The director of Poland’s Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and Museum Piotr Cywinski has asked Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari to pardon a 13-year-old boy Omar Farouq sentenced to 10 years’ imprisonment for blasphemy. “As the director of the Auschwitz Memorial, that commemorates the victims and preserves the remains of the German Nazi concentration…

Closed during the coronavirus pandemic, the Memorial and Museum Auschwitz-Birkenau reopens July 1. The downtime was used for maintenance and restoration. Like many museums in Europe, the Memorial and Museum Auschwitz-Birkenau in southern Poland's Oświęcim has been severely affected by the coronavirus pandemic. On March 12, 2020, the international memorial…

Chancellor Merkel and Foreign Minister Heiko Mass understand the importance of Holocaust education to fight the surge of rising antisemitism and Holocaust denial. By CELIA JEAN  JUNE 19, 2020 17:25 On December 6, 2019, in front of the notorious gate at the site of the former Auschwitz- Birkenau concentration and…

WASHINGTON — Facebook on Thursday removed advertisements posted on its platform by the Trump campaign that prominently featured a symbol used by Nazis to classify political prisoners in concentration camps during World War II, saying the imagery violated company policy.The Trump campaign had used the ads, with a picture of…

08:39 Reported News Briefs  Sivan 25, 5780 , 17/06/20 Last year, the Auschwitz-Birkenau Museum, founded in 1947, saw a record number of 2.3 million visitors from all over the world. ► ◄ Other archived news briefs:Jun 17, 08:39 AM, 6/17/2020 Read More

Germany has doubled its share of a fund to preserve the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp to 120 million euros ($135 million), Foreign Minister Heiko Maas said Tuesday, according to AFP. The death camp, which is located in Poland, was where Nazi officials murdered 1.1 million people, a million of whom were…

WARSAW, Poland — Germany has doubled its share of a fund to preserve the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp to 120 million euros ($135 million), Foreign Minister Heiko Maas said Tuesday. The death camp, which is located in Poland, was where Nazis murdered 1.1 million people, a million of whom were Jews,…

GERMANY HAS DOUBLED its share of a fund to preserve the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp to €120 million, Foreign Minister Heiko Maas said Tuesday. The death camp, which is located in Poland, was where Nazi officials murdered 1.1 million people, a million of whom were European Jews, from 1940 to 1945.…

New York Congressman Eliot Engel's last competitive primary was in 2000, when he beat then-state Senator Larry Seabrook by 9 points. Seabrook portrayed his incumbent as out of touch with the district's issues. Twenty years later, Engel has a challenger in Jamaal Bowman who is not only looking to portray…