Holocaust

Amos Barshad | Longreads | January 2020 | 20 minutes (4,985 words) In the spring of 2019 I start getting emails from a guy in Poland named Grzegorz Kwiatkowski. He’s a poet and a musician from Gdansk, a midsize town on the north coast of Poland, on the Baltic Sea.…

DescriptionThis campaign aims to take dimension of the amount of jews who were murdered during the 54 months the Auschwitz lasted and bring this forward January 27 on International Holocaust memorial day. Read More

by Lori Dorn on January 28, 2020 “Gam zeh ya’avor” …This too shall pass”. In honor of the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz concentration camp on January 28, 2020 (International Holocaust Remembrance Day), AARP shared an incredibly poignant and powerful video featuring Holocaust survivor and author Michael Bornstein.…

Some of the last living survivors of the Holocaust have shared their emotional testimonies as they marked the 75th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz death camp in occupied Poland. More than 1.1 million people, mainly Jews, were killed at Auschwitz between 1940 and 1945. Al Jazeera's Jonah Hull…

As the world marks the 75th anniversary of the Jan. 27, 1945, liberation of Auschwitz — a key part of a series of watershed World War II anniversaries this year — all eyes will be on Germany. Angela Merkel set the tone with a moving and highly reflective spee…

Oswiecim, Poland - One tour group jutted up against another on a recent, cold Wednesday at Auschwitz, the German Nazi concentration and death camp complex. Guides shuffled guests through the crematorium, the torture block, barracks and displays, like human hair shorn from prisoners after their death in gas chambers.  Now known as the Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and…

Monday marks 75 years since the liberation of the Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland. Auschwitz was not only the largest of the German regime's death camps, where more than a million people 90 percent of them Jews were murdered by the Nazis; it's become t…

By Joanna Plucinska and Maayan LubellOSWIECIM, Poland (Reuters) - The presidents of Israel and Poland called on Monday for greater efforts to combat anti-Semitism as the world marked 75 years since the liberation of the Auschwitz death camp amid concerns over a resurgence of anti-Jewish prejudice.More than 1.1 million people,…

The world will commemorate International Holocaust Day, or International Day of Commemoration in memory of the victims of the Holocaust, on Monday, January 27. But in Germany, there is growing concern at the rising levels of anti-Semitism. One example is th…

3-D restored Matzevah fragment recovered from Oswiecim Jewish cemetery, Poland. Credit: William Mitchell, Author provided It's now 75 years since Soviet troops liberated the notorious death camp at Auschwitz and the vast majority of Holocaust survivors are no longer with us. The impact of continuing to research the Holocaust can,…