‘My father was the Tattooist of Auschwitz – it took me five attempts to visit his prison home’
After 40 years of trying, Gary Sokolov finally saw the death camp where his parents met – he felt terror but also a sense of ...
‘Nothing will be easy about returning:’ Survivors mark 80th anniversary of Auschwitz liberation
It doesn’t do any good for your heart, for your mind, for anything,” said Holocaust survivor Jona Laks, 94, about her return ...
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A gift shop at Auschwitz? New films and a graphic memoir explore the contradictions of ‘dark tourism’
In a fraught moment in the film “A Real Pain,” Kieran Culkin, playing the more volatile of a pair of Jewish cousins who go on ...
Holocaust Memorial Day latest: Kate hugs survivors as King pays tribute at ceremony 80 years on from Auschwitz liberation
Kate joined her husband Prince William at commemorations in London while King Charles attended a ceremony with world leaders ...
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Auschwitz in the era of dark tourism
On the 80th anniversary of the concentration camp’s liberation, its significance is being trivialized by tourism and popular ...
Revealed: The SS monsters who played sport and enjoyed film nights while absolving themselves of the industrial slaughter inside Auschwitz - as the world marks 80 year…
In June 1944 the train carrying 20-year-old Freda Wineman, her family and nearly a thousand other Jews passed under the ...
I didn’t have to tour Auschwitz to know unspeakable evil happened there
I did not need to visit the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camps to know they were unspeakably evil. However, my somber visit ...
King says remembering horrors of Auschwitz ‘a sacred duty’
Charles appeared emotional and wiped his eye at one point during a ceremony to mark 80 years since the Nazi death camp was ...
King Charles makes emotional Auschwitz visit and says the horrors must never be forgotten
King Charles joined world and religious leaders to hear harrowing tales from survivors returning to mourn those who perished ...
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Have Israel keep Auschwitz as a Jewish cemetery
With the death camps decaying, it won’t be long before all that remains in Auschwitz-Birkenau is the ... Riverdale – the Bayit in the Bronx. His book “Defending Holocaust Memory” will ...
What really happened inside the home of the monster of Auschwitz
As the world marks the 80th year of the liberation of the Nazi death camp, author Thomas Harding is one of the few people who ...
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‘Nothing will be easy about returning:’ Survivors mark 80th anniversary of Auschwitz liberation
Michael Bornstein, who survived for seven months inside Auschwitz as a child ... message in a visitor’s book, after he took a tour of the former death camp, which is now a museum.