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Can visiting genocide memorials make you more empathic?

Each year, people visit museums and memorial sites as part of educational interventions organised around the remembrance of a genocide or an atrocity. Many schools visit a concentration camp as part of Holocaust education, such as Auschwitz-Birkenau. Others travel to memorial sites associated with other genocides, such as the massacre…

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Victor Perahia, Holocaust survivor and president of French Union of Auschwitz Deportees, dies at 91

French Union of Auschwitz Deportees president and Holocaust survivor Victor Perahia has died

The Independent UK

Remembering the longest journey to Auschwitz – the deportation of Rhodes’ Jews decimated a small but vibrant community with centuries of Mediterranean history

In the Old Town of Rhodes, a picturesque tourist destination in the Aegean Sea, stands a monument to a dark period in the island’s past. In the former “Djuderia,” the Jewish quarter, a marble obelisk commemorates the deportation of the island’s small but vibrant Sephardic Jewish community to Auschwitz-Birkenau on…

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Former ‘Bachelor’ contestant Anna Redman apologizes for ‘tone-deaf’ Auschwitz outfit inspiration post

‘I’m severely sorry for any pain I caused,’ Redman said over post on fashion choices for visit to site of Nazi concentration camp

The Independent UK

The Commandant’s Shadow review – family of Auschwitz commander bring healing to death-camp survivor

The son and grandson of Auschwitz commandant Rudolf Höss appear in Daniela Volker’s engrossing documentary, a companion piece to Zone of Interest

The Guardian - UK

Lily Brett’s trip to Poland with her Holocaust survivor father inspired her novel, Too Many Men. 25 years later, it’s a film: Treasure

Lily Brett’s acclaimed novel Too Many Men was published 25 years ago, in 1999. Next month, a feature film adaptation, Treasure, directed by Julia von Heinz and starring Lena Dunham and Stephen Fry, will screen in Australia.

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Treasure review – Lena Dunham and Stephen Fry can’t save muddled father-daughter Holocaust drama

A trip to Auschwitz raises painful family history in a film that fumbles its honourable intentions with overstuffed and miscast characters

The Guardian - UK

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Charlotte Delbo and the women of Convoy 31000: how researching their stories led me to a forgotten subcamp and Nazi lies in the Auschwitz archive

The taxi bumped along a track just off the main road heading south from the Auschwitz Museum, past a row of bungalows with straggly November gardens. It crunched to a halt in front of a pair of rusty gates, hanging half open, their padlock dangling. Dilapidated and overgrown greenhouses could…

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Holocaust Survivors Beg Young EU Voters To Shun Far Right

The German far-right AfD party has "a lot in common" with the Nazis in the 1930s, according to 95-year-old Ruth Winklemann, who recalls having to hide in a shed with her mother after her father was sent to Auschwitz.

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TV tonight: a rollicking return for the all-female Muslim punk band comedy

Lady Parts head for the recording studio – but new rivals are waiting in the wings. Plus: haunting memories resurface in The Tattooist of Auschwitz. Here’s what to watch this evening

The Guardian - UK

Descendants of Holocaust survivors celebrate hidden ‘queer love story’

Lola Alexander and Ursula Finke both narrowly escaped deportation to Auschwitz – and after the war were inseparable

The Guardian - UK

Holocaust Survivors March In Auschwitz Amidst Recent Attacks

Holocaust survivors march in Auschwitz to honor victims, promote resilience, and combat hatred. Event symbolizes remembrance, strength, and unity in the fa...

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The Bauhaus Nazis: the collaborators – and worse – among the design icons

They were seen as heroes and martyrs who defied the Nazis. But a new show in Weimar reveals horrifying details about some Bauhauslers, one of whom designed the crematoriums at Auschwitz

The Guardian - UK

The week in TV: Miriam: Death of a Reality Star; The Tattooist of Auschwitz; A Man in Full; Shardlake; Michael Palin in Nigeria – review

TV continues to circle around tragic reality star Miriam Rivera; Sky’s Auschwitz drama is more love story than horror; Jeff Daniels leads a bristling Tom Wolfe adaptation; and Disney’s fine Shardlake does CJ Sansom proud

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The Tattooist of Auschwitz review – proof that the Holocaust cannot be entertainment

All the things you expect from a classic drama are here: heroism, suspense, stirring music. But against a backdrop of true horror, this well-intentioned show becomes utterly grotesque

The Guardian - UK

TV tonight: the adaptation of bestselling book The Tattooist of Auschwitz

Jonah Hauer-King , Harvey Keitel and Melanie Lynskey star in the chilling drama. Plus, Taskmaster on top form. Here’s what to watch this evening

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How to watch 'The Tattooist of Auschwitz' online — TV channel and streaming

Starring Harvey Keitel in the story of how Lale Sokolov and Gita Fuhrmannova fell in love at the notorious concentration camp, here's how to watch "The Tattooist of Auschwitz" wherever you are.

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How to watch The Tattooist of Auschwitz online and from anywhere

This adaptation of Heather Morris' book tells of love blossoming in the most hopeless of places. Here's how to watch The Tattooist of Auschwitz online from anywhere.

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‘Shaving my head became so poignant’: Jonah Hauer-King on The Tattooist of Auschwitz and his extraordinary family story

He melted hearts as Prince Eric in The Little Mermaid, but his latest role couldn’t be more different – playing an Auschwitz tattooist in an epic Holocaust drama. The actor opens up about how his own family’s plight inspired him

Evening Standard

The Tattooist of Auschwitz: who plays who in Sky’s devastating new drama?

From Harvey Keitel to Melanie Lynskey, here’s everybody you need to know

The Guardian - UK

The Zone of Interest is a portrait of guilt. No wonder it has divided opinion in Germany

Most Germans insist their ancestors weren’t Nazis. Jonathan Glazer’s film pries away at the cracks in this narrative, writes Guardian Europe columnist Fatma Aydemir

The Guardian - UK

‘Mum knew what was going on’: Brigitte Höss on living at Auschwitz, in the Zone of Interest family

Her father was Rudolf Höss, the camp’s commandant. He was arrested by the Jewish great-uncle of the writer Thomas Harding, to whom Brigitte gave this, her final interview – and confession

The Guardian - US

‘Honest and brave’: progressive Jewish figures defend Jonathan Glazer speech

Jewish Voice for Peace and the Auschwitz Memorial among those defending Oscar winner amid backlash over words at ceremony

The Guardian - UK

‘We refute our Jewishness and the Holocaust being hijacked’: Jonathan Glazer calls for end to Gaza attacks at Oscars

Accepting the award for best international film for The Zone of Interest, Glazer took to the stage to make an impassioned call for his Auschwitz drama to make people reassess the contemporary conflict in the middle east

The Guardian - UK

Painting the unpaintable: Gerhard Richter’s most divisive work returns to Auschwitz

The artist’s Birkenau cycle is based on the only pictures taken by prisoners at the Nazi death camp. As it goes on show next to its source, does it still have the power to shake us?

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