Posts Tagged: Auschwitz
What I Saw as a Jewish Teen Visiting Poland
During Thanksgiving break, I had the privilege of taking a trip to Poland with my father. We visited Krakow, Warsaw, Lublin, and Łódź. As someone...
Halina Silber, Holocaust Survivor Saved by Oskar Schindler, Dies at Age 93
Helen "Halina" Silber, who attributed surviving the Holocaust to being transferred from Auschwitz to an ammunition and enamelware factory owned by the German industrialist, Oskar...
Auschwitz Was Not Bombed Because the World Didn’t Care
On March 5, 1943, the British air force bombed and destroyed a Krupp facility that produced artillery detonators (fuses) in the city of Essen, Germany....
Why We Must Remember the Holocaust Correctly
Three words loom large in our Holocaust remembrance: Arbeit macht frei, usually translated as "work will make you free." Ironically, they had little to do with the...
Israel ‘Bombs Auschwitz’
JNS.org - It has often been said that if only the State of Israel had existed in the 1940s, it could have bombed Auschwitz, interrupting...
In Rare Footage, Israeli Astronaut and War Hero Ilan Ramon Shares Motivation as Son of Auschwitz Survivor
Ilan Ramon — who became the first Israeli astronaut and served a fighter pilot in the Israel Air Force during the 1981 raid on the...
David Dushman, Last Surviving Auschwitz Liberator, Dies Aged 98
i24 News - David Dushman, the last surviving soldier who took part in the liberation of the Nazi death camp at Auschwitz in 1945, has...
Children of Polish WW2 Hero Capt. Witold Pilecki Condemn Appointment of Hardline Nationalist to Auschwitz Museum Council
The son and granddaughters of one of Poland's legendary World War II resistance heroes have joined a searing attack on the Polish government's recent decision...
Appointment of Hardline Nationalist to Auschwitz Museum Council Intensifies Fears Over Polish Government’s Holocaust Commemoration Policies
The appointment of a hardline nationalist politician to the Polish government's advisory council for the Auschwitz concentration camp triggered the resignations of three experts on...
Capitol Hill Rioter Who Wore ‘Camp Auschwitz’ Shirt Identified as Virginia ‘Extremist’
The Capitol Hill insurgent whose "Camp Auschwitz" sweatshirt became one of the most viewed images of last Wednesday's storming of the US legislature has been...
Auschwitz Survivor Who Helped Convict SS War Criminal in German Court Dies at Age 95
A survivor of the Auschwitz death camp who assisted a German court in convicting an SS war criminal passed away on Tuesday in Chemnitz --...
Auschwitz Memorial and Museum Weighs in on Controversy Over Tearing Down Statues
The Memorial and Museum at Auschwitz-Birkenau, which maintains the remains of the death camp where a million Jews were murdered during the Holocaust, weighed in...
Henri Kichka, 94, Belgian Holocaust Survivor
Henri Kichka, one of the last remaining Holocaust survivors from Belgium, died April 25 from the coronavirus. On Facebook, his son Michel, a noted cartoonist, said...
Arab Recognition of the Holocaust
Muslim World Society chairman Saudi Sheik Muhammad Issa visited Auschwitz on January 23 with a delegation of leading Muslim clerics. One of the most prominent was Lebanese...
