Seventy-five years after the liberation of Auschwitz, a dwindling number of elderly Holocaust survivors gathered Monday at the former German Nazi death camp to honor its more than 1.1 million victims and to share their alarm over rising anti-Semitism. More than 200 survivors came from ...
Israel to welcome the world to mark 75 years since Auschwitz liberation
World leaders are to travel to Israel this week to mark 75 years since the Red Army liberated Auschwitz, the extermination camp where the Nazis killed over a million Jews. It is set to be one of the most important events ever organized by the ...
Poland museum slams Amazon for Auschwitz Christmas ornaments
A Polish museum on Sunday slammed U.S. e-commerce giant Amazon for selling Christmas ornaments with images of the Nazi German death camp Auschwitz-Birkenau, calling them inappropriate. The museum at the site of the former camp in southern Poland tweeted screenshots of the items showing train ...
Thousands of Hungarians attended the annual March of the Living in Budapest on Sunday to commemorate victims of the Holocaust, including Jane Haining, a Scottish missionary who refused to abandon her Jewish charges during World War II. Israel's Holocaust memorial Yad Vashem estimates that 565,000 ...
Auschwitz museum rebuts Holocaust denial tweet by Japanese celebrity doctor Katsuya Takasu
The Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and Museum in Poland recently responded to a high-profile Japanese plastic surgeon's 3-year-old Twitter post denying the Holocaust by issuing a tweet in Japanese describing it as a "historic fact." Katsuya Takasu, a well-known media personality in Japan, posted the tweet Oct. ...
Far-right protest staged for first time during Auschwitz camp liberation commemoration
Dozens of Polish far-right nationalists gathered at the Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland on Sunday to protest at the same time as officials and survivors marked the 74th anniversary of the camp's liberation in an annual ceremony. The two parties gathered in different parts of ...
A lesson about truth and justice from Auschwitz
At a trial for a German concentration camp guard, a Holocaust survivor seeks to put truth and justice before his desire for revenge.
Holocaust art collector seeks to repatriate works to Poland
Writer Michiko Nomura was bursting with anger at what she saw during her first visit to Holocaust memorials in Poland and Czechoslovakia in 1989. Human hair, shoes and prosthetic limbs taken from victims at Nazi concentration camps were displayed as "victims' belongings." "Most painful was to ...
'Accountant of Auschwitz,' 94, guilty of abetting deaths of 300,000 Jews, gets four years
A 94-year-old man who was once a Waffen SS volunteer at Auschwitz was convicted for aiding in the murder of more than 300,000 Jews at the camp and sentenced to four years in prison. Most of the victims came from Hungary and were deported to ...
Why prosecuting Auschwitz crimes still matters
The best symbol of German atonement for World War II is Chancellor Angela Merkel's relentless efforts to negotiate compromises in conflicts others want to resolve by force.
On the 70th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, we should be mindful that the peace of Europe and of the world could be jeopardized by a return to rivalry between European states and the collapse of the European Union.
The 70th anniversary, on Tuesday, of the Soviet Army's liberation of Nazi Germany's Auschwitz concentration camp should serve as a chance for Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to reflect on Japan's wartime behavior in the Asia-Pacific region.
