Holocaust Survivor Returning To Auschwitz: 'It's Like Going To The Family Cemetery'

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Marian Turski, Holocaust survivor who warned of the danger of indifference, dies at 98

WARSAW, Poland — Marian Turski, a Holocaust survivor who became a journalist and historian in postwar Poland and co-founded Warsaw’s landmark Jewish history museum, died on Tuesday. Turski was among a dwindling number of Holocaust survivors and spoke during observances last month marking the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp. With world leaders in the audience, …

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2 months ago

World War II Nazi camp survivors revisit the site they were tortured | Photos

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World War II Nazi camp survivors revisit the site they were tortured | Photos World War II Holocaust survivors gathered at Auschwitz on Monday to honour lost lives. World War II Holocaust survivors gathered at Auschwitz on Monday to honour lost lives. 1 / 10 On the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the German Nazi concentration and extermination camp …

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2 months ago

Remembering Auschwitz so it can never happen again

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NORMAN HERMANT, REPORTER: Through these gates lay the very heart of evil. NORMAN HERMANT: Alex Ryvchin was at the ceremony representing the Executive Council of Australian Jewry. NORMAN HERMANT: This anniversary is vital reminder, says Ryvchin, the Holocaust wasn't the beginning of murderous hate towards Jews and other minorities - it was the culmination. NORMAN HERMANT: Like so many Jewish …

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2 months ago

Watch: Auschwitz survivors return to camp on 80th anniversary of liberation

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For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Watch as Holocaust survivors returned …

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King Charles sheds a tear during service for Auschwitz liberation after paying a heartfelt tribute to victims and survivors on Holocaust Memorial Day

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King Charles III told Holocaust survivors it was 'sombre and sacred' to be in Poland today as he became the first British head of state to visit Auschwitz-Birkenau. King Charles III lays a candle during commemorations at Auschwitz-Birkenau in Poland to mark 80 years since the liberation of the concentration camp The monarch lays a candle during the ceremony in …

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2 months ago

World marks 80th anniversary of Auschwitz liberation

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by Dario THUBURN Some of the few remaining survivors of Auschwitz returned to the notorious Nazi death camp on Monday as the world marked the 80th anniversary of its liberation. "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 …

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2 months ago

The rail tracks of Auschwitz still cross the area as aging reminders of horror

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OSWIECIM, Poland — During World War II, men, women and children were transported from across Europe to Auschwitz-Birkenau, horrendous journeys in which they were packed into cramped cattle cars. Share Share Copy Link copied Email Facebook X Reddit LinkedIn Pinterest Flipboard Print Old railroad tracks once used to transport Jews and others from across Europe to Auschwitz, the Nazi German …

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2 months ago

Auschwitz: Survivors mark 80th anniversary of liberation of Nazi death camp

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CNN — “It doesn’t do any good for your heart, for your mind, for anything,” said Holocaust survivor Jona Laks, 94, about her return to Nazi Germany’s Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp. “It’s necessary for the world to know.” Monday marks Holocaust Memorial Day and the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz camp complex, where Laks spent more than a …

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2 months ago

Auschwitz survivors warn of rising hatred on 80th anniversary of the death camp’s liberation

LA Times

Survivors and relatives place candles near the Death Wall during a ceremony at Auschwitz-Birkenau, the former Nazi-run concentration camp in Poland, on Jan. 27, 2025. Auschwitz survivors warned Monday of the rising antisemitism and hatred that they are witnessing in the modern world as they gathered with world leaders and European royalty on the 80th anniversary of the death camp’s …

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2 months ago

Silence pervades Auschwitz on the eve of the 80th anniversary of the camp’s liberation

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OSWIECIM, Poland — Silence pervades the site of Auschwitz-Birkenau today. Share Share Copy Link copied Email Facebook X Reddit LinkedIn Pinterest Flipboard Print People visit the Memorial and Museum Auschwitz-Birkenau, a former Nazi German concentration and extermination camp, in Oswiecim, Poland, Friday, Jan. 24. Share Share Copy Link copied Email Facebook X Reddit LinkedIn Pinterest Flipboard Print People visit the …

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2 months ago

’Saw my father dragged to death in Hungary’: Man who escaped Nazis recalls horror ahead of Holocaust Memorial Day

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The world will mark the Holocaust Memorial Day on Monday, January 27, to remember millions of people, who were killed by the Nazis in several gas chambers across Germany and Austria. Holocaust survivor Tomi Komoly, now an 89-year-old grandfather, told the Mirror that he saw his father dragged off to his death in Hungary. He claimed that during World War …

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Auschwitz was liberated 80 years ago. The spotlight is on survivors as their numbers dwindle

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WARSAW, Poland — The world’s focus will be on the remaining survivors of Nazi Germany’s atrocities on Monday as world leaders and royalty join them for commemorations on the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz. The main observances take place at the site in southern Poland where Nazi Germany murdered over a million people, most of them Jews, but …

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2 months ago

Auschwitz was liberated 80 years ago. The spotlight is on survivors as their numbers dwindle

LA Times

A group of Jewish people is forced from the Warsaw Ghetto by German soldiers on April 19, 1943. The world’s focus will be on the remaining survivors of Nazi Germany’s atrocities on Monday as world leaders and royalty join them for commemorations of the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz. The main observances take place at the site in …

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2 months ago

After 80 years, not many Auschwitz survivors are left. One man makes telling the stories his mission

LA Times

Naftali Fürst will never forget his first view of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp, on Nov. 3, 1944. “In Slovakia, we knew that people who went to Poland didn’t return.” Strokes of luck Fürst and his family arrived at the entrance to Auschwitz on Nov. 3, 1944 — one day after Nazi leader Heinrich Himmler ordered the cessation of the use …

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2 months ago

Survivors strive to ensure young do not forget Auschwitz

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by Claire GALLEN On a frosty Polish winter evening, 96-year-old Esther Senot told the 100 or so shivering students at Auschwitz-Birkenau how she was a teenager much like them when she was first brought to the Nazi death camp on September 2, 1943. "We'd been given figures in class but now we realized what people had gone through," said Charlotte, …

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2 months, 1 week ago

After 80 years, not many Auschwitz survivors are left. One man makes telling the stories his mission

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HAIFA, Israel — Naftali Fürst will never forget his first view of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp, on Nov. 3, 1944. “In Slovakia, we knew that people who went to Poland didn’t return.” Strokes of luck Fürst and his family arrived at the entrance to Auschwitz on Nov. 3, 1943 – one day after Nazi leader Heinrich Himmler ordered the cessation …

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2 months, 1 week ago

'It was an escape into excellence': How music saved the life of a teenage Jewish cellist in Auschwitz

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'It was an escape into excellence': How music saved the life of a teenage Jewish cellist in Auschwitz 40 minutes ago Greg McKevitt Getty Images The Nazi extermination camp at Auschwitz-Birkenau was liberated by Soviet troops on 27 January 1945. Back at home, Lasker's parents continued to instil a love of culture in their children, as "nobody can take that …

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2 months, 1 week ago

Scholz's gives address on Holocaust anniversary amid election buzz, right-wing surge in Germany

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Scholz warned of a “worrying and alarming normalisation” of anti-Semitism, hate speech, and the rise of far-right movements in Germany, particularly on social media, where such sentiments are often paired with incitements to violence German Chancellor Olaf Scholz spoke about the memory of Auschwitz against the backdrop of the rise of far-right in Germany. File image/AP German Chancellor Olaf Scholz …

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2 months, 1 week ago

Behind the scenes at Auschwitz museum: Staff share emotional toll of preserving history 80 years after liberation

Hindustan Times

Barbed wire lines the road to work for Pawel Sawicki, deputy spokesman of the Auschwitz museum at the site of the former Nazi death camp that was liberated 80 years ago this month. To cope with the heavy emotional toll of working at Auschwitz, Sawicki said he has put up "a sort of professional barrier" that keeps him sane, even …

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2 months, 1 week ago

Starmer visits ‘harrowing’ Auschwitz and vows renewed fight against antisemitism

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Get the free Morning Headlines email for news from our reporters across the world Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Sir Keir Starmer has visited Auschwitz, a place he described …

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2 months, 1 week ago

'Nothing could prepare me for the horror': Keir Starmer makes 'harrowing' visit to Auschwitz with wife Victoria

Daily Mail

Keir Starmer made a 'harrowing' visit to Auschwitz with his wife Victoria today. Writing for the Jewish Chronicle newspaper to coincide with the visit, Sir Keir said: 'Nothing could prepare me for the sheer horror of what I have seen in this place. Sir Keir Starmer and Lady Victoria at the Auschwitz site in Poland today Sir Keir made a …

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2 months, 2 weeks ago

The man who revealed Auschwitz's atrocities to the world

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The man who revealed Auschwitz's atrocities to the world 3 days ago Amy McPherson Archive of The State Museum Auschwitz-Birkenau in Oświęcim One man's daring mission to infiltrate Auschwitz revealed its atrocities to the world – this is his story. On 27 January 1945, prisoners at the main camp of Auschwitz watched as the soldiers of the First Ukrainian Front …

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3 months, 1 week ago

Laya's Way Home

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Laya Semler was the last Jew sent to a concentration camp from Wennigsen, Germany, in 1945. Now, Wennigsen has invited their Australian family back, to commemorate Laya and Adolf’s incredible story of courage and love. In Part 2, they will experience that history face-to-face -- when they visit the slave labour camp, only recently unearthed, where Adolf was held. Michaela …

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3 months, 2 weeks ago

Laja's Way Home part 1

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In 1945, Laya Semler became the last Jew sent to a concentration camp from Wennigsen, Germany. In 2022, the village of Wennigsen invited their Australian family back to commemorate Laya and Adolf’s bravery. A truth that, as Laya and Adolf’s descendants discover first-hand, not everyone in the town is ready to accept. Joanna Kalowski at the opening of the new …

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5 months ago

Hundreds of Jews Remembered at a Little-Known Polish Labor Camp

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Hundreds of Jews murdered at a little known Nazi labor camp are remembered in Poland. The son of a Holocaust survivor fulfilled a yearslong personal mission with the unveiling of memorials in a Polish forest that honor hundreds of Jews killed by German forces during World War II. The ceremony included the unveiling of a memorial with the names of …

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6 months, 4 weeks ago

Poland holds a state burial for more than 700 victims of Nazi Germany’s World War II massacres

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WARSAW, Poland — Poland held a state burial Monday for more than 700 victims of Nazi Germany’s World War II mass executions, whose remains were recently uncovered in the so-called Valley of Death in the country’s north, decades after their deaths. The observances in the town of Chojnice began with a funeral Mass at the basilica, leading to an interment …

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6 months, 4 weeks ago

Poland holds state burial ceremony for more than 700 victims of Nazi Germany massacres

LA Times

People lay a wreath at a monument to the 1939 defense of the Westerplatte peninsula in Poland on Sept. 1, 2024. The next day, the country held a state burial of the remains of more than 700 Polish victims of Nazi Germany’s World War II mass executions. Poland held a state burial on Monday of the remains of more than …

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9 months ago

How a Jewish grandfather survived the Nazis and four labour camps by playing piano in his head

Daily Mail

The Piano Player Of Budapest by Roxanne de Bastion If you visited Stratford-upon-Avon in the 1960s, you might remember a restaurant called Paprika, a souvenir shop called Shakespeare’s Doorstep, and a fashion shop called Chez Vivienne. Clearing out her father’s house after his death a few years ago, Roxanne came across a stash of cassettes labelled ‘Stephen tells his war …

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10 months, 3 weeks ago

The yearly memorial march at the former death camp at Auschwitz overshadowed by the Israel-Hamas war

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For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy U.S. university presidents joined Holocaust …

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10 months, 3 weeks ago

The yearly memorial march at the former death camp at Auschwitz overshadowed by the Israel-Hamas war

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OSWIECIM, Poland — Holocaust survivors and survivors of the Oct. 7 attack on Israel were among thousands who took part Monday in the March of the Living, a yearly memorial march at the site of Auschwitz that honors the 6 million Jews killed by Nazi Germany and celebrates the state of Israel. This year, the mood at the march was …

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10 months, 3 weeks ago

Annual memorial march at Auschwitz former death camp overshadowed by Israel-Hamas war

LA Times

People walk through the former Nazi concentration camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau as they attend the annual Holocaust remembrance event, the March of the Living, in Oswiecim, Poland, on Monday in memory of the 6 million Holocaust victims. U.S. university presidents joined Holocaust survivors and thousands of Israelis on Monday for the March of the Living, a yearly memorial march at the …

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10 months, 4 weeks ago

‘The Tattooist of Auschwitz’ is both love story and reminder of the Holocaust and its horrors

LA Times

“This is a love story,” says Lali Sokolov at the beginning of “The Tattooist of Auschwitz,” as a caveat, or perhaps a come-on — not your usual Holocaust tale, then, that we’re about to begin. The novel it became sold many copies and topped the New York Times bestseller list — no better guarantee of a picture deal — and …

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1 year, 1 month ago

Even 80 years on, there's no birdsong in Auschwitz. When she visited as a schoolgirl, SABRINA MILLER came away feeling its legacy was that such horrors would never happen again. But returning now, aft

Daily Mail

There may be no machine-gun toting SS guards in the Auschwitz watchtowers these days, but these red-brick constructions have lost none of their power to chill the blood. I visited Auschwitz, 40 miles from Krakow in southern Poland, as part of a two-day conference organised by the European Jewish Association to coincide with last weekend’s Holocaust Memorial Day. Sabrina stands …

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1 year, 2 months ago

Auschwitz survivor who came face to face with Nazi 'Angel of Death' but escaped being sent to the gas chambers after lying about his age tells how he found love with fellow Holocaust victim, 89, follo

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Ivor Perl feels very strongly that he was kept alive by the 'X factor': something intangible that went beyond luck. Heartrendingly, his mother forced Ivor, who was big for his years, to stand in the line of able-bodied men, minutes before she and seven of his siblings were sent to the gas chambers. Holocaust survivor Ivor Perl told MailOnline how …

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1 year, 2 months ago

Never forget: How I watched Elon Musk hoodwink the world at Auschwitz

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If you wanted proof that Jewish people were not the fiendishly manipulative beings that antisemites suppose them to be, then you only had to come to Krakow on Monday. Musk’s response received worldwide opprobrium – as well it should – with even the Biden White House issuing a statement condemning “this abhorrent promotion of antisemitic and racist hate in the …

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1 year, 2 months ago

Nazi death camp survivors mark 79th anniversary of Auschwitz liberation on Holocaust Remembrance Day

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OSWIECIM, Poland — A group of survivors of Nazi death camps marked the 79th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau camp during World War II in a modest ceremony Saturday in southern Poland. Marking International Holocaust Remembrance Day, the survivors were accompanied by Polish Senate Speaker Malgorzata Kidawa-Blonska, Culture Minister Bartlomiej Sienkiewicz and Israeli Ambassador to Poland Yacov Livne. …

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1 year, 2 months ago

Nazi death camp survivors mark 79th anniversary of Auschwitz liberation on Holocaust Remembrance Day

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For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy A group of survivors of …

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1 year, 2 months ago

Nazi death camp survivors mark 79th anniversary of Auschwitz liberation on Holocaust Remembrance Day

LA Times

Holocaust survivors and relatives arrive for a ceremony at the Auschwitz Nazi death camp in Oswiecim, Poland, on Saturday. A group of survivors of Nazi death camps marked the 79th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau camp during World War II in a modest ceremony Saturday in southern Poland. Marking International Holocaust Remembrance Day, the survivors were accompanied by …

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1 year, 2 months ago

International Holocaust Remembrance Day has special significance for young people with Jewish roots in Poland

Hindustan Times

For ten years now, an empty streetcar has rolled silently through the streets of Warsaw on January 27. Of the six million Jewish victims of the Holocaust, the vast majority were killed in occupied Poland, which is why many Jews continue to regard Poland as a large cemetery. Searching for their Jewish roots It is not unusual in Poland for …

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1 year, 2 months ago

How should cinema tackle the horror of the Holocaust?

Hindustan Times

A baby is crying, but whose: the one in the nursery or someone else’s child, beyond the garden wall topped with barbed wire? In “The Zone of Interest”, an ambitious new film by Jonathan Glazer, the nursery and the dog belong to Rudolf Höss, the commandant of Auschwitz. Every director who grapples with the Holocaust—from Mr Glazer to Steven Spielberg, …

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1 year, 2 months ago

Elon Musk visits Auschwitz after backlash, admits to being 'naive' about antisemitism

Hindustan Times

Along with his 3-year-old son X Æ A-XII, Tesla owner Elon Musk paid a “private visit” to the historic Nazi German concentration camp site of Auschwitz-Birkenau, Poland on Monday. X owner Elon Musk visited the Auschwitz-Birkenau site with his 3-year-old son and others, The visit follows criticism that Musk received recently for supporting anti-Jewish conspiracy theories on his social media …

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1 year, 2 months ago

Elon Musk visits Auschwitz after uproar over antisemitic messages on X

The Hindu

Elon Musk, who has been accused of allowing antisemitic messages on his social media platform, X, visited the site of the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp on Monday, saying afterwards that the tragedy of the Holocaust “hits you much more in the heart when you see it in person.” Mr. Musk toured the most notorious extermination camp established by Nazi Germany during …

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1 year, 2 months ago

Elon Musk visits Auschwitz after uproar over antisemitic messages on X

Associated Press

KRAKOW, Poland — Elon Musk, who has been accused of allowing antisemitic messages on his social media platform, X, visited the site of the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp on Monday, saying afterwards that the tragedy of the Holocaust “hits you much more in the heart when you see it in person.” Musk toured the most notorious extermination camp established by Nazi …

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1 year, 3 months ago

Israeli Official Suggests Gaza Be ‘Flattened Completely, Just Like Auschwitz Today’

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LOADING ERROR LOADING A local Israeli council head suggested in a radio interview that Gaza should be “flattened completely, just like Auschwitz today,” the latest Israeli official to publicly call for the annihilation of the besieged Palestinian enclave. The politician said that while he is “not a far-right person,” he believes Palestinians in Gaza should be ordered to “go to …

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1 year, 4 months ago

Simon Wiesenthal, the Holocaust and the politics of guilt

Hindustan Times

“It was the deadliest day for Jews since the Holocaust,” said US President Joe Biden four days after the October 7 Hamas attack in Israel. In The Murderers Among Us: The Simon Wiesenthal Memoirs, along with the anecdotal history of Hitler’s reign of terror, the “Nazi Hunter” recounted his own journey through more than a dozen concentration camps, from his …

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1 year, 9 months ago

Laya's Way Home Part 2

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Laya Semler was the last Jew sent to a concentration camp from Wennigsen, Germany, in 1945. Now, Wennigsen has invited their Australian family back, to commemorate Laya and Adolf’s incredible story of courage and love. In Part 2, they will experience that history face-to-face -- when they visit the slave labour camp, only recently unearthed, where Adolf was held. Michaela …

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1 year, 9 months ago

Laya's Way Home Part 2

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Laya Semler was the last Jew sent to a concentration camp from Wennigsen, Germany, in 1945. Now, Wennigsen has invited their Australian family back, to commemorate Laya and Adolf’s incredible story of courage and love. In Part 2, they will experience that history face-to-face -- when they visit the slave labour camp, only recently unearthed, where Adolf was held. Michaela …

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1 year, 9 months ago

Laya's Way Home Part 1

ABC

In 1945, Laya Semler became the last Jew sent to a concentration camp from Wennigsen, Germany. In 2022, the village of Wennigsen invited their Australian family back to commemorate Laya and Adolf’s bravery. A truth that, as Laya and Adolf’s descendants discover first-hand, not everyone in the town is ready to accept. Joanna Kalowski at the opening of the new …

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1 year, 9 months ago

Laya's Way Home Part 1

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In 1945, Laya Semler became the last Jew sent to a concentration camp from Wennigsen, Germany. In 2022, the village of Wennigsen invited their Australian family back to commemorate Laya and Adolf’s bravery. A truth that, as Laya and Adolf’s descendants discover first-hand, not everyone in the town is ready to accept. Joanna Kalowski at the opening of the new …

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1 year, 9 months ago

Auschwitz museum criticizes use of death camp in politics after ruling party uses it in political ad

Associated Press

WARSAW, Poland — The Auschwitz-Birkenau memorial museum has denounced a political spot by Poland’s ruling party that uses the theme of the Nazi German extermination camp to discourage participation in an upcoming anti-government march. The 14-second video published Wednesday by the Law and Justice party shows images of the former death camp, including the notorious “Arbeit Macht Frei” gate, and …

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