The Latest Breaking News from Auschwitz

Weary refugees from Ukraine find shelter near Auschwitz

A youth education centre near Auschwitz dedicated to preserving memories of World War Two and the Holocaust has opened its doors to help refugees fleeing war in the present.

Reuters · Mar 14, 2022

Love in a time of terror: the tragic couples who married at a Dutch Nazi transit camp

‘Aunt Annie’ was killed in the Holocaust – but not before marrying her sweetheart in captivity. Now her great-niece has found 260 other couples who did the same

The Guardian - UK · Feb 12, 2022

Holocaust memorial says it's unlikely purported 'Auschwitz tattoo kit' was used on Jews

A partial tattoo kit offered at auction in Israel as an Auschwitz artefact is highly unlikely to have been used on Jews at the Nazi concentration camp, a court-ordered investigation has found following outcry from Holocaust survivors.

Reuters · Feb 10, 2022

Holocaust survivor, 98, uses TikTok to tell her story and educate young people

Lily Ebert who was sent to Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp in 1944 has more than 1.6 million followers and says she wants her generation's experiences to be accessible to younger people

Daily Mirror · Jan 29, 2022

98-year-old Hungarian Holocaust survivor shares her stories on TikTok

One of the last remaining survivors of Auschwitz, 98-year-old Lily Ebert, who now lives in London, has gained more than 1.6 million followers on TikTok – where she answers people’s questions about surviving the Holocaust – with the help of her 18-year-old great grandson Dov Forman.

France 24 · Jan 28, 2022

'I lived among rotting bodies at Auschwitz and was examined naked by Dr Mengele'

Susan Pollack was forced to march to Bergen-Belsen at the age of 14, and learnt afterwards that she had tragically lost more than 50 relatives and only her brother survived

Daily Mirror · Jan 28, 2022

‘Too adult-oriented’: Tennessee school board defends ban of Holocaust novel Maus

Ban of book by the son of Auschwitz survivors led to an online backlash

The Independent UK · Jan 28, 2022

Man who wore ‘Camp Auschwitz’ shirt to Capitol riot pleads guilty to trespassing charge

Robert Packer pleaded guilty to one count of parading, demonstrating or picketing in a Capitol building Wednesday after being photographed in the anti-Semitic shirt on 6 January 2021

The Independent UK · Jan 27, 2022

Memory of Scottish teacher Jane Haining who died in Auschwitz to be honoured

Miss Haining refused to leave the school in Hungary where she worked at the outbreak of the Second World War and was later arrested by the Gestapo.

The Independent UK · Jan 27, 2022

GMB studio emotional as Holocaust survivor shares decision not to have Auschwitz tattoo removed

Holocaust survivor Lily Ebert has become a TikTok star and appeared on ITV's Good Morning Britain alongside her 18-year-old great-grandson to mark Holocaust Memorial Day

Daily Mirror · Jan 27, 2022