I did not need to visit the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camps to know they were unspeakably evil. However, my somber visit ...
World leaders and a dwindling group of survivors joined in a ceremony to mark the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the ...
(ANALYSIS) Monday marks the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi German concentration and extermination camp Auschwitz-Birkenau. Over 1 million people were murdered there, most of them Jews, ...
Over 1.1 million people were murdered at Auschwitz, including nearly a million Jews. On the day of liberation 80 years ago, ...
At Auschwitz, 1.1 million people—mostly Jewish, but also Roma, resistance fighters, homosexuals, and people with disabilities—perished. There is no other truth. Only the work of remembrance ...
That creates risks: the Holocaust didn’t begin with mass murder. The dehumanization of Jews progressed gradually from public ...
The ceremony is widely regarded as the last major observance likely to see a significant number of survivors in attendance.
The solemn commemoration came amid a worldwide spike in antisemitism and new surveys suggesting basic knowledge of the ...
My father had entered Auschwitz the previous spring, together with his parents, his two brothers, and two of his three ...
It doesn’t do any good for your heart, for your mind, for anything,” said Holocaust survivor Jona Laks, 94, about her return ...