Auschwitz-Birkenau

Before it closed only nine days after opening due to the covid-19 outbreak, the Gerhard Richter retrospective at the Met Breuer was set to be quite the important affair. One senses that the Met’s directorship had pulled all the stops to make its final exhibition in the Breuer building, which…

Quarantine and travel restrictions aimed at curbing the spread of Covid-19 have forced Holocaust Remembrance Day, set to begin Monday evening and end the following day, to be marked exclusively digitally for the first time.  Berthe Badehi, who hid from the Nazis as a child during World War II, has become one…

On Jan. 27, the world paused to mark the 75th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp by Soviet forces. The date was designated International Holocaust Remembrance Day by the United Nations.But there is another date that has been set aside to honor the victims of the Holocaust.…

Tomorrow is Holocaust Remembrance Day.  Throughout the world, communities gather, albeit virtually in most cases, to remember the victims — including well over one million children; hear from survivors; and in general reflect on the liquidation of the entire Jewish culture of Europe. The complete name of this commemoration is Yom HaShoah…

Of all the jobs that Jewish slave labourers had to perform at the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp in Poland, none perhaps was more despised than that of Sonderkommando — a member of the “special unit” that instructed men, women and children to undress for the gas chambers, and dragged their bodies…

With the annual International March of the Living event cancelled due to the global coronavirus pandemic, the organization behind the educational program on Tuesday announced the launch of a virtual remembrance project, offering people around the world the chance to place their own plaque of remembrance against the backdrop of…

For the former Nazi German death camp Auschwitz, Twitter has become a powerful tool in Holocaust education. OSWIECIM, Poland: Every day, Pawel Sawicki, head of social media at the Auschwitz Museum, posts several photos of victims of the former Nazi German death camp on a Twitter account that has become…

The first thing I encountered in “Gerhard Richter: Painting After All” was not in fact a painting, but my own reflection, or something like it: a blurred form thrown back at me by 11 Panes (2004), a stack of green glass panels propped upright against a wall. Placed across from…

It was late at night when we stopped at a platform with a big sign that read 'Auschwitz'. The name meant nothing to me. Even before the train doors opened, I heard bellowing and cursing in German and Polish. Outside, I could see, among the SS guards, a large number of strange…

Before he left in January for his fourth return to the Auschwitz-Birkenau prison camp where he labored as a teen, Ralph Hakman explained why he wanted to go back to the site of the worst years of his life.“I would be guilty not to go.... What if these are my…