Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp

Elon Musk visits Auschwitz after uproar over antisemitic messages on X

By Czarek Sokolowski — January 22, 2024
KRAKOW, Poland (AP) — The private visit was apparently in response to calls from some Jewish religious leaders for Musk to see with his own eyes the most symbolic site of the horrors of the Holocaust.

Auschwitz survivor Leon Schwarzbaum dies at 101 in Germany

By Kirsten Grieshaber — March 14, 2022
BERLIN (AP) — The German art and antiques dealer was the subject of director Hans Erich Viet's 2018 movie, 'The Last of the Jolly Boys.'

25 years after Srebrenica, what happened to ‘Never Again’?

By Ari Gordon and Suhail Khan — July 13, 2020
(RNS) — If we are to make good on our promise to stop mass atrocities from happening, we must restore principled American leadership in multilateral institutions. 

Auschwitz officials chastise US Rep. Clay Higgins for gas chamber video

By Yonat Shimron — July 5, 2017
(USA Today) The Louisiana Republican recorded five minutes of video, including some from areas of the site where Jews were gassed and their bodies burned.

Pope Francis recalls ‘the souls’ at Auschwitz

By Josephine McKenna — August 3, 2016
VATICAN CITY (RNS) Reflecting on his visit to the concentration camp last week, the pontiff said the site also reminded him 'of the cruelties of today, which are similar.'

Auschwitz survivor: Being alive is best ‘revenge’

By Michele Chabin — January 26, 2015
TEL AVIV (RNS) On Tuesday (Jan. 26) — Holocaust Remembrance Day — Renee Ganz will return to Auschwitz-Birkenau the for the first time, along with nearly 100 other Auschwitz survivors from 19 countries.
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