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'I survived a Nazi gas chamber aged 6 - now I tell children my story on TikTok'

Tova Friedman was selected for the gas chambers at Auschwitz along with other children, but miraculously survived after guards changed their mind at the last minute

Daily Mirror

Unknown Holocaust photos – found in attics and archives – are helping researchers recover lost stories and providing a tool against denial

The summer of 2022 marked the 80th anniversary of the first Nazi deportation of Jewish families from Germany to Auschwitz.

The Conversation

Vatican cardinal honors Jewish convert, tells his own story

A Vatican cardinal has marked the 80th anniversary of the gas chamber killing of the Jewish-born Catholic convert Edith Stein

The Independent UK

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Polish Auschwitz survivor, novelist Zofia Posmysz dies at 98

Zofia Posmysz, a Polish World War II-era resistance fighter who survived the Auschwitz and Ravensbrück concentration camps and who later became a journalist and novelist, has died at 98

The Independent UK

‘He could not expel the trauma’: Sidney Nolan’s Auschwitz paintings revealed in landmark show

Preoccupied with the inhumanity of Nazi Germany, the artist painted 220 works in just four weeks: a ‘rambling, tumbling turmoil’ that he did not speak of for decades

The Guardian - AU

Artist renowned for his Auschwitz collection and depiction of Ayrshire mining life passes away aged 78

Gordon Cockburn's portrayal of the World War Two concentration camp is said to be amongst his most powerful work.

Daily Record

Eighty years after France’s Vél d'Hiv roundup of Jews, its last survivors recount ordeal

This month marks 80 years since the Vél d'Hiv roundup, when French police detained 13,000 Parisian Jews, including 4,000 children, acting on orders from occupying German forces and their French allies in the Vichy Regime. Many were first sent to the Vélodrome d'Hiver stadium, which gave its name to this…

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Did Ukrainians really place anti-Russian stickers around Auschwitz? Nope.

Several pro-Russian accounts have been circulating photos that they say show how Ukrainians put anti-Russian stickers in different places in Auschwitz, the former death camp run by the Nazis. The stickers say: "Russia & Russians – The only gas you and your country deserve is Zyklon B", a reference to…

France 24

Sma' Shot Day move to commemorate Auschwitz death

The Unison union will be joined by relatives of Jane Haining for the Paisley parade

Daily Record

Auschwitz museum target of Russian propaganda on social media

Social media posts falsely claimed to show anti-Russian stickers placed around former Auschwitz death camp in Poland.

Al Jazeera

Auschwitz Museum says it's a target of Russian propaganda

The Auschwitz-Birkenau museum alleges it was the target of “primitive” propaganda spread by Russian state agencies on social media

The Independent UK

The Escape Artist by Jonathan Freedland review – how an Auschwitz breakout alerted the world

The gripping and heroic story of Rudolf Vrba, who escaped the death camp in order to tell the world about its horrors

The Guardian - UK

The Escape Artist by Jonathan Freedland review – the man who broke out of Auschwitz

The astonishing story of how Rudolf Vrba escaped the Nazi camp, and his mission to tell the world about it

The Guardian - UK

Escape from Auschwitz: the most extraordinary Holocaust story you’ve never heard

A pair of Jewish prisoners plotted to break out of the death camp and tell the world the true horror of what they’d seen. How did they do it?

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The spy inside Auschwitz: The true story of Polish resistance fighter Witold Pilecki

Witold Pilecki was a Polish resistance fighter who volunteered to go to Auschwitz, from where he sent secret messages to warn the world about the true nature of Nazi Germany's largest concentration camp. After the war, Pilecki was tried and executed. For years, he was described as a traitor and…

France 24

New French Prime Minister Élisabeth Borne, daughter of a stateless Auschwitz survivor

French Prime Minister Élisabeth Borne's childhood was marked by the suicide of her father in 1972, when she was just 11 years old. Joseph Borne, whose original name was Bornstein, was a Jewish resistance fighter of Polish origin who survived the hell of Auschwitz but never quite recovered from the…

The Independent UK

Feds seek prison for rioter in 'Camp Auschwitz' sweatshirt

Federal prosecutors have recommended a prison sentence of more than two months for a Virginia man who stormed the U.S. Capitol wearing a “Camp Auschwitz” sweatshirt

Chicago Sun-Times

Golda ‘Goldie’ Indig, dead at 91, suffered hunger in 3 Nazi prison camps, made sure family, friends never went hungry

Because she evaded execution at Auschwitz, officially she didn’t exist. So she hid out, sometimes in latrines or the camp kitchen, where she peeled vegetables and smuggled an occasional carrot to her older sister.

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The Guardian - UK

Hero or hoax? The man who broke into Auschwitz – or maybe didn’t

Denis Avey’s publishers plan changes to new editions of bestseller as researcher raises alarm

The Guardian - UK

Azeem Rafiq at Auschwitz: ‘If this doesn’t move you there’s something wrong’

Former cricketer took part in the March of the Living to Auschwitz-Birkenau and felt ‘shattered’ by what he learned

The Independent UK

Polish leader calls for Ukraine unity at Holocaust event

Polish President Andrzej Duda has denounced Russia’s war against Ukraine as he joined Holocaust survivors and people from around the world at an annual observance at the former site of Auschwitz

Tribune News Service

Movie review: ‘The Survivor’ scores as a middleweight Holocaust drama

HBO Max Holocaust entry “The Survivor” tells the compelling story of Harry Haft, aka Herzko Haft, a Polish Jew who survived Auschwitz by boxing fellow inmates for the amusement of Nazi military personnel, who then executed the losers.

Chicago Sun-Times

‘The Survivor’: Ben Foster does haunting work as a boxer forced to make an unspeakable choice at Auschwitz

Morally challenging HBO film depicts Harry Haft’s concentration camp nightmares as well as his postwar ring career in New York.

Chicago Sun-Times

With virtual reality, my grandmother tells her story of surviving the Holocaust

My grandmother endured some of the most horrific conditions in history and never lost hope. We must hear stories like hers and remember that we can make a difference, even with small actions.

Daily Mirror

Anti-Semitic blogger who compared Auschwitz to 'theme park' jailed over offensive song

Holocaust denier Alison Chabloz, 58, from St John's Wood in London, previously called Auschwitz a "theme park just for fools" and said the "gassing zone" is a "proven hoax"

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