Auschwitz-Birkenau
Nazi death camp survivors mark 79th anniversary of Auschwitz liberation on Holocaust Remembrance Day
By Czarek Sokolowski — January 29, 2024
OSWIECIM, Poland (AP) — About 20 survivors from various camps set up by Nazi Germany around Europe laid wreaths and flowers and lit candles at the Death Wall in Auschwitz.
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.
Emhoff will discuss antisemitism and gender equity at World Economic Forum meeting in Switzerland
By Darlene Superville — January 16, 2024
WASHINGTON (AP) — Emhoff has focused on both issues in his role as the husband of the first female vice president, for which he is known as the second gentleman of the United States.
Why there is no ice cream at Auschwitz
By Jeffrey Salkin — May 16, 2023
Because some places are holy. The survival of our culture depends on our ability to recognize that.
Fighting anti-Semitism and remembering the Holocaust on social media
By Paul O'Donnell — March 12, 2019
(RNS) — Not waiting for social media platforms to take action, institutions from Washington to Auschwitz combat hate by creating a 'virtual community of remembrance.'
What Pope Francis’ visit to Auschwitz means to the Jews
By David Rosen — August 5, 2016
JERUSALEM (RNS) The memory of past hostility toward the Jews enables us to appreciate the remarkable Catholic-Jewish reconciliation of the last 50 years.
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.'
World marks Holocaust Remembrance Day
By Kim Hjelmgaard — January 27, 2016
The anniversary, marked each year since 2005, falls on the anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp in Poland by the Russian army in 1945. One million people died there.
Saved from the German ‘death march,’ he returned to thank his Polish rescuer
By Michele Chabin — January 30, 2015
(RNS) On Jan. 18, 1945, during the final stages of the war, Shalom Lindenbaum and his father were among 1,500 surviving prisoners sent on a death march into the forest, starving and freezing.
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