Holocaust

The virtual tour of the Auschwitz death camp begins at the main gate. Visitors click white arrows and arrive at the unloading platform where Nazi physicians once determined which new arrivals were fit for work, and which would be sent to the gas chambers.  The ruins of the gas chambers…

Although there will be a few in-person talks, all 14 presentations can be viewed via the Zoom videoconferencing program. Leonie Wolfram and Maximilian Staudacher are young Austrians known as gedenkdieners. Photo courtesy Vanier College. The Ukraine-Russia conflict, Indigenous genocide and online anti-Semitism: these are among topics to be covered during…

NEW YORK — If you live in New York City and are attuned to the programming schedules of local arts cinemas, there is a man who is noticeably having a moment: 57-year-old Sergei Loznitsa. The fact that Ukraine’s most celebrated film director has so many projects coming to theaters right…

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Russian forces damaged a Holocaust memorial near the city of Kharkiv, Ukraine’s ministry of defense said Saturday, the second such incident since Russia invaded Ukraine a month ago. The ministry said in a Twitter post that the Drobitsky Yar memorial near Kharkiv was hit by Russian forces. It separately cited…

KHARKIV, Ukraine —  In a city stalked by death and bombardment, only four mourners gathered Thursday in a blustery chill for a final farewell to Boris Romantschenko. But in the six days since the 96-year-old survivor of Nazi concentration camps was killed by a Russian missile strike in the Ukrainian city…

In late February, four days after Russia invaded Ukraine, Inna Vdovichenko, a staffer in the Odessa office of the Jewish humanitarian organization JDC, was sitting in Natalia Berezhnaya’s home when an air raid alert began. Sirens blared. For Vdovichenko, who had come over to keep Berezhnaya company and to see…

Register now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.comMarch 22 (Reuters) - He survived the Nazi Buchenwald concentration camp during World War II. He survived the Dora-Mittelbau concentration camp in the same war. And the Bergen-Belsen camp. Last week, Boris Romanchenko, a 96-year-old Holocaust survivor, was killed when shelling hit his…

A Holocaust survivor was killed in Ukraine when Russian forces shelled his apartment building in the eastern city of Kharkiv, a memorial foundation said Monday. Boris Romanchenko, 96, who survived several Nazi concentration camps, died Friday after the attack burned his building, the Buchenwald and Mittelbau-Dora Memorials Foundation said. Romanchenko…

A 96-year-old Holocaust survivor has been killed in the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv. As a young man Boris Romantschenko survived the Nazi occupation of his country and four concentration camps but was killed when a Russian shell hit his apartment on Friday.  Kharkiv has been under sustained attack by Russia…