The warnings from history were clear ... The Nazis murdered 1.1 million people at Auschwitz-Birkenau between 1941 and 1945. Almost a million were Jews, 70,000 were Polish prisoners, 21,000 ...
Holocaust survivors shared their stories to protect us from forces that know the history and seek to repeat it. We must ...
For Szepesi, however, the history has lost none of its power. “Auschwitz will stay with me until the last day, the last moment,” she said. For the first time, this year’s milestone ceremony ...
Auschwitz did not just fall from the sky. It was a plan hatched by history’s most wicked minds, a network of extermination camps built as part of what the Nazis chillingly described as the ...
"The thing that surprised me the most was this [idea] of finding humanity and compassion in this history," Hauer-King said at a London screening of The Tattooist's Son: Journey to Auschwitz ...
Today, Auschwitz survivors will address the invited ... in a world filled with ‘turmoil and strife’ to learn the lessons of history, adding: "The act of remembering the evils of the past ...
World leaders and survivors mark the 80th anniversary of Auschwitz’s liberation, reminding us to prevent hatred from leading to genocide. Polish police patrols along the fences of Auschwitz ...
with critics accusing the Polish government of trying to whitewash history by passing a law that made it a crime to accuse the country of complicity in Nazi crimes, including at Auschwitz.
"At that moment, this particular aspect of Auschwitz history -- children, pregnant women, newborns -- I was in no state to handle it," she told AFP. "The emotional weight of the site and the ...