An eerie treasure has been uncovered underneath the floorboards at the Auschwitz concentration camp — 35 well-preserved handmade chess pieces. Renovators at Poland’s Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum found the incomplete set in the prison’s first floor, hidden under a floorboard so as to avoid detection from the brutal Nazi guards who patrolled the cells. Elżbieta Cajzer, […]
Elie Wiesel once warned of the “perils of indifference.” Reflecting on the horrors of the 20th century, he recognized that indifference can be tempting, even seductive. It is easier to look away from victims. It is easier to avoid interrupting comfortable lives. Indifference requires no response. Indifference is not a beginning, he said; it is […]
Pro-Palestinian protesters disrupted a remembrance march to honour the victims of Nazi atrocities at the site of the Auschwitz concentration camp. The demonstrators chanted slogans at the marchers, unfurling Palestinian flags and banners reading “stop genocide”. Survivors of the Holocaust and the Oct 7 Hamas attacks on Israel took part in the march on Monday, […]
Holocaust survivors and thousands of Israelis have joined a yearly memorial march at the site of Auschwitz which honours the six million Jews killed by Nazi Germany and celebrates the state of Israel. The mood at the March of the Living was overshadowed this year by the war in Gaza after the October 7 attack […]
OSWIECIM, Poland (Reuters) – Several thousand Jews, including Holocaust survivors personally affected by the Oct. 7 Hamas attacks on Israel, walked through the former Auschwitz Nazi German death camp on Monday for the annual March of the Living ceremony in Poland. Walking along the three kilometre (1.8 mile) path towards the crematoria of Birkenau, they […]
Author Heather Morris says she doesn’t have “a creative bone in my body”. This might be hard to believe, considering she wrote The Tattooist Of Auschwitz – a book club favourite that has sold over 13 million copies worldwide since it was published in 2018, spending a combined 85 weeks on the Sunday Times bestsellers […]
Too Late Now Earlier this month, Facebook’s algorithm flagged 21 posts from the Auschwitz Museum as going against its community standards — and now its parent company Meta is eating crow. In a Facebook post, the Poland-based memorial said that after Meta’s content moderation algorithm moved some of its posts down in the feed over strange […]
The popularity of historical dramas in film and on television has caused much controversy, as historians take issue with fictional scripts being passed off as fact, and treated as such by viewers lacking the specialist education to allow them to tell the difference. The Crown, much of which was pure invention, is an obvious example. […]
A Jewish survivor of the Auschwitz death camp has told Germany’s parliament that she is appalled by the rising strength of the far right in the country and increasing antisemitism in the wake of the October 7 Hamas attack that triggered the war in the Gaza Strip. Eva Szepesi, 91, who was born in Hungary […]
BERLIN (AP) — A Jewish survivor of the Auschwitz death camp told Germany’s parliament Wednesday that she is appalled by the rising strength of the far right in the country and increasing antisemitism in the wake of the Oct. 7 Hamas attack that triggered the war in the Gaza Strip. Eva Szepesi, 91, who was […]
Elon Musk, who has been accused of allowing antisemitic messages on his social media platform, X, has visited the site of the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp. Mr Musk’s visit at the most notorious site of the horrors of the Holocaust came before a scheduled appearance later on Monday at a conference on antisemitism organised by the […]
A local Israeli council head suggested in a radio interview that Gaza should be “flattened completely, just like Auschwitz today,” the latest Israeli official to publicly call for the annihilation of the besieged Palestinian enclave. David Azoulai, a political leader for the northern Israeli town of Metula, made the remark Sunday in an interview with […]