Get all your news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One app.

Get all your news in one place.

100's of premium titles. One news app.

The Latest Breaking News from Auschwitz

Auschwitz victim’s story to be taught in schools across Scotland

Jane Haining, a Christian matron at a school in occupied Hungary, was betrayed after helping Jewish children and died in the concentration camp.

The Independent UK

'It stays with you for life': Denton Burn woman reflects on visit to Auschwitz on Holocaust Memorial Day

Leanne Miah, 29, went on the trip with her youth group and she helped create a book chronicling the young people's experiences

Chronicle Live

Second gentleman Emhoff visits Auschwitz, part of a push against antisemitism

Emhoff, the first Jewish spouse of a U.S. president or vice president, is in Poland and Germany to mark International Holocaust Remembrance Day and address rising antisemitism around the world.

WEKU

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Virtual reality brings Holocaust history to future generations

For those who survived the Holocaust, the memories can never be erased, but their generation is dying out. Educators and historians are looking for new ways to keep their experience alive and connect to younger people.

Reuters

Auschwitz anniversary marked as peace again shattered by war

Survivors of Auschwitz-Birkenau are gathering to commemorate the 78th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi German death camp amid horror that yet another war has shattered peace in Europe

The Independent UK

Light a virtual candle for the victims of genocide on Holocaust Memorial Day

Friday marks the 78th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz

Manchester Evening News

Susan Pollack OBE: Holocaust Survivor tells her story for memorial day

A Nazi concentration camp survivor has urged people to end a culture of blame and instead learn from the past to put an end to atrocities we continue to see around the world. Marking Holocaust Memorial Day, Susan Pollack told The Standard: “Hate has a way of spreading. It isn’t…

Evening Standard

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Holocaust Memorial Day: Five survivors and the precious objects they smuggled to safety

To mark Holocaust Memorial Day, five survivors recall their stories, and the item they still have that means so much to them as part of the Daily Mirror's #PeopleMove project

Daily Mirror

Holocaust Memorial Day: Auschwitz survivor urges people to treat each other equally

As world remembers atrocities, survivor Susan Pollack urges people to learn from the past and end culture of blame

Evening Standard

Survey: Half Of Americans Don’t Know How Many Jews Died In The Holocaust

Only 53% of Americans over the age of 18 answered correctly that approximately six million Jews were killed in the Holocaust.

Zenger

Holocaust survivor's daughter says her mum never talked about horrors of Auschwitz

Marta Seiler's parents both survived the Holocaust, but Marta knew very little about their experience until she read a series of harrowing letters written by the pair and other members of the family

Daily Mirror

Prince William and Kate's moving message after death of man who 'will be truly missed'

Holocaust survivor Zigi Shipper passed away at the age of 93, and on his birthday and met the Duke and Duchess in 2017 during their visit to Poland where he spoke of his time at Auschwitz-Birkenau

Daily Mirror

Police officer sacked for texts about ‘dodgy showers’ in Auschwitz

The group had various names including ‘**** Hate Group’, named after a mixed-race officer, ‘Boris’s Benders’, ‘Atkin’s Puppets’ and ‘Bottles and Stoppers’

The Independent UK

Heroic Scots Auschwitz survivor and former Stirling Albion star celebrates 100th birthday

Stirling man Jan Szpula was surrounded by his family as he marked his 100th birthday.

Daily Record

Get all your
news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One news app.

The Guardian - UK

The Last Stage review – cinema’s first look at the horror of Auschwitz

This 1948 feature film by Wanda Jakubowska, a Polish survivor of the death camp, is both forthright and nightmarish, and invented the cinematic language with which to make the Holocaust thinkable

Zenger

Auschwitz Survivor, 99, Honored By Britain’s King Charles

At 99, I celebrate to show that the Nazis did not win. The post Auschwitz survivor, 99, was honored by King Charles.

Al Jazeera

Julius Hirsch: The German ‘national hero’ killed by the Nazis

Only the second Jew to play for Germany, Hirsch broke records and fought in WWI for a country that would kill him.

The Guardian - UK

Charlotte review – absorbing animation about a remarkable artist, murdered at Auschwitz

Keira Knightley gives voice to Charlotte Salomon, the German-Jewish painter who said she killed her own grandfather after he abused her, in a powerful but flawed biopic

Get all your
news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One news app.

The Conversation

Like Primo Levi at Auschwitz, Behrouz Boochani testifies for the people who lived and died in a prison camp

This is an edited extract from Freedom, Only Freedom: The Prison Writings of Behrouz Boochani.

The Guardian - UK

‘She worked in a terrified state’: the extraordinary life of Charlotte Salomon, who died in Auschwitz

The pioneering German Jewish artist was murdered by the Nazis but her work lives on. The makers of a new biopic, featuring the voices of Keira Knightley and Helen McCrory, explain her enduring appeal

The Independent UK

Auschwitz hero's son seeks millions for dad's 1948 execution

The son of World War II Auschwitz death camp hero Witold Pilecki is seeking millions in compensation from Poland's government for his father's post-war arrest and his 1948 execution by the communist authorities of the time

Salon

GOPer wrote Jesusy "Anne Frank" sequel

Johnny Teague wrote a novel in which Frank accepts Jesus and converts to Christianity at Auschwitz

USA Today Sports Media Group

Champion Celtics alum Ray Allen recirculates article on Auschwitz after Ye West’s antisemitic rants

Allen felt the need to repost his article on Auschwitz 'in light of the rhetoric being spewed through the airwaves.'

Radio France Internationale

Biopic of French politician and Holocaust survivor defies critics

A biopic of the late Simone Veil, one of France's most admired public figures, has received some damning reviews, but its success at the box office shows there's an appetite for tales of strong women and dark periods in French history.

The Guardian - UK

The value of photographic evidence of Nazi crimes

Letter: Toby Simpson, the director of the Wiener Holocaust Library, on the new Seeing Auschwitz exhibition in London

1 … 9 10 11 12

People

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Organisations

American Jewish Committee

12 stories

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Topics

Places

Fourteen days free

Download the app

One app. One membership.
100+ trusted global sources.