Holocaust

Monday commemorates Holocaust Memorial Day and the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz camp complex. NBC News reports that Auschwitz, the largest extermination camp, symbolizes the genocide of six million Jews by Nazi Germany, where one million Jews and more than 100,000 non-Jews lost their lives between 1940…

LONDON (RNS) — When the Roma violinist Jakub Segar arrived at Auschwitz, the concentration camp’s guards ordered him to strip and hand over all his belongings, including his violin. Unable to bear being parted from his precious instrument, he played it for the guards in the hope that he would…

Monday 27 January 2025 11:46 am  |   Updated:  Monday 27 January 2025 1:59 pm Guests including Mark Zuckerberg, Lauren Sanchez, Jeff Bezos, Sundar Pichai and Elon Musk attend the Inauguration of Donald J. Trump in the U.S. Capitol Rotunda on January 20, 2025 in Washington, DC. Donald Trump takes office…

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Irish President Michael D. Higgins speaks at the National Holocaust Memorial Day Commemoration at the Mansion House in Dublin, January 26, 2025. (Photo: President of Ireland/X) Irish President Michael Higgins criticized the Jewish state during his Holocaust Remembrance Day speech at the Mansion House in Dublin on Sunday night. He…

On Monday the world will mark eight decades since the liberation of Auschwitz, the notorious Nazi extermination camp where more than a million people, most of them Jews, were murdered during the Second World War. But as world leaders and Auschwitz survivors prepare to gather at the Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and…

Monday, Jan. 27, marks 80 years since the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp. Ten days prior to the opening of the gates, Raoul Wallenberg, a Swedish diplomat who saved tens of thousands of Hungarian Jews, was detained. He disappeared and his fate remains unknown. These events highlight humanity’s capacity…

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Toronto, January 22, 2025: Timed to coincide with Holocaust Remembrance Day on January 27, The Walrus Lab, in partnership with the Vancouver Holocaust Education Centre (VHEC), will release The Hidden Holocaust Papers: Survival. Exile. Return., a six-part documentary podcast series that delves into the hidden family history of Canadian author…

Holocaust Memorial Day, the memorial garden in Hyde Park. London, United Kingdom, 27 Jan 2024. Photo: Reuters On the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, British town halls and educational establishments are being threatened by The Islamic Human Rights Commission (IHRC) to make an equivalence between the war with…