Holocaust

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,…

Screenshot: Twitter (Katie Waldman)Barf BagWelcome to Barf Bag, a daily politics roundup to help you sort through the chaotic Trumpian news cycle.Vice President Mike Pence and his press secretary really, really, really want you to know that Prince Charles didn’t snub him on camera at the World Holocaust Forum. Yes,…

A video of Prince Charles walking by US Vice President Mike Pence without shaking his hand at a Holocaust remembrance event in Jerusalem on Thursday went viral, with many interpreting it as a deliberate "snub" on the part of the prince however, Buckingham Pal…

Call it “snub-gate” (actually, call it anything but that), but a new video shows Prince Charles walking straight past U.S. Vice President Mike Pence without shaking his hand. The video above was captured at the start of a World Holocaust Forum at the Yad Vashem memorial center in Jerusalem on Thursday. It shows…

In a video that's making the rounds on social media, Prince Charles appears to noticeably snub Vice President Mike Pence at the World Holocaust Forum in Jerusalem, skipping by him to shake Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's hand: As the clip gained …

Mittelbau-Dora was a forced labour camp that provided slave workers for the factories that produced V1 and V2 rockets. More than 20,000 of its mostly Slavic inmates were killed many of them literally worked to death. Prof Knigge blamed for the rise in incide…