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Auschwitz survivors warn of rising hatred on the 80th anniversary of the death camp’s liberation
Ronald Lauder, head of the World Jewish Congress, called on the leaders gathered to oppose antisemitism, saying it was “the world’s silence that led to Auschwitz.” “When the Red Army entered these ...
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Auschwitz was liberated 80 years ago. The spotlight is on survivors as their numbers dwindle
Altogether the Germans murdered 6 million Jews, or two-thirds of all of Europe's Jews, in the Holocaust at Auschwitz and other camps, in ghettoes and in mass executions close to people's homes. On Jan ...
Inside the Auschwitz commandant’s house, now dedicated to fighting hate
The villa of Rudolf Höss, Auschwitz’s longest-serving commandant, is being transformed into a research centre dedicated to fighting extremism. Once a chilling symbol of Nazi atrocities, the house will ...
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Woman born at gates of Nazi concentration camp survived because of ‘luck’
A woman who was born at the gates of a concentration camp after her mother volunteered to follow her husband to Auschwitz has said she survived because of “luck”. Eva Clarke, 80, was born at ...
Poignant moment King walks through Auschwitz gate after hearing harrowing stories from Holocaust survivors on visit
KING Charles walked through the entrance to Auschwitz-Birkenau to mark the 80th anniversary of its liberation after hearing harrowing stories from Holocaust survivors. The King has become the ...
Memorializing the Holocaust Needs to Go Beyond Auschwitz
That creates risks: the Holocaust didn’t begin with mass murder. The dehumanization of Jews progressed gradually from public exclusion to eventual internment to finally extermination. Millions of ...
Holocaust survivors recall horrors of Auschwitz as Prince William and Kate attend London memorial
On the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, survivor Tova Friedman says she thought she was the "only Jewish child in the world".
‘My father was the Tattooist of Auschwitz – it took me five attempts to visit his prison home’
Lali Sokolov – better known as the Tattooist of Auschwitz, who was immortalised in the 2018 book that has sold more than 13 million copies in 40 languages – has done more to keep the horrors of the ...
Leaders to hear Auschwitz survivors at 80th anniversary of camp's liberation
OSWIECIM, Poland (Reuters) -Auschwitz survivors were being joined by world leaders on Monday to mark the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi German death camp by Soviet troops, one of the ...
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Auschwitz was liberated 80 years ago. The spotlight is on survivors as their numbers dwindle
On Jan. 27, 1945, Soviet troops arrived at the gates of Auschwitz and found some 7,000 weak and emaciated prisoners. Boris Polevoy, a correspondent for the Soviet newspaper Pravda who was a first ...
Auschwitz survivors warn of rising hatred on 80th anniversary of death camp's liberation
In all, the Nazi regime murdered 6 million Jews from all over Europe, annihilating two-thirds of Europe's Jews and one-third of all Jews worldwide. In 2005, the United Nations designated Jan. 27 as ...