‘Zone of Interest’ Nazi house to become center to combat antisemitism
I cannot imagine a more symbolic form of justice... than turning what was once a breeding ground for evil into a space that ...
Jewish Journal10d
A Former Nazi “Paradise” Will Be Transformed into a Global Center for Combatting Antisemitism
The former Polish residence of the Nazi commandant at Auschwitz will soon open its doors to the public as a center dedicated ...
Boca man set out to publish uncle’s Holocaust memoir — it landed on NY Times list
Alex Bruner spent years ushering “Cold Crematorium” to publication. It made the New York Times “10 Best Books of 2024” list.
Auschwitz survivor returns to brave a harrowing past
This is Auschwitz-Birkenau, a place where the Nazis treated people like animals caged in by electrified barbed wire, where ...
The Times of Israel15d
New York City honors Holocaust Center and survivors with a street naming
“Auschwitz crematoria are the graveyards of my grandparents and family members. We honor the memory of 6 million Jews, including 1.5 million children, with the renaming of this street to Yad ...
The Globe and Mail15d
The Polish town standing in Auschwitz’s shadow strains between its fraught history and its future
More than a million people died at Auschwitz-Birkenau ... the sounds of prisoners screaming and the smell of a nearby crematorium, said Hans-Jakob Schindler, senior director of the Counter ...
Sun Sentinel16d
A gift shop at Auschwitz? New films, memoir explore the contradictions of ‘dark tourism’
Stahl’s gonzo travelogue gleefully mocks the tourist trappings at Auschwitz, Buchenwald and Dachau, but he ultimately concludes that they don’t diminish the impact of his visits. “I don’t care if you ...
Jewish Telegraphic Agency17d
Germans remember the Holocaust, and the Jewish life that was
they have been giving informal walking tours of the now decrepit site where the company designed and built the Auschwitz crematorium, as well as air-tight gas chamber doors and ventilation systems.
CBS News18d
Pittsburgh families tell survivors' stories from Auschwitz 80 years later on Holocaust Remembrance Day
PITTSBURGH (KDKA) - Eighty years ago on Jan. 27, 1945, Soviet soldiers liberated Auschwitz and uncovered ... he pointed to the billowing smoke from the crematorium, that's where your father ...
The Independent18d
What really happened inside the home of the monster of Auschwitz
Now, I am back in Auschwitz for the 80th anniversary of ... the gas chambers, the crematoria. His account changed the course of the trial. He was then taken to Poland where he was tried and ...
Channel 300018d
Auschwitz was liberated 80 years ago. The spotlight is on survivors as their numbers dwindle
Auschwitz is not only the place where 1.1 ... You have the incredibly long railway platform which leads to the former crematoria and gas chambers." Presidents, royalty, ambassadors, rabbis and ...
The Taipei Times18d
Survivors recall Auschwitz horror on 80th anniversary
“When I arrived in Auschwitz and got off the train, I saw the pits where human corpses were burned, because the crematoria could not keep up,” Iwanska, a 94-year-old Warsaw-born survivor, told Agence ...