Auschwitz

On This Day: 4 inmates escape Auschwitz dressed as SS officers 81 years ago

The escape was led by Kazimierz Piechowski, a non-Jewish political prisoner in the camp. It saw the inmates bring back the first detailed account of the horrors of the Holocaust at Auschwitz.

20/06/2023

TikTok star Montana Tucker follows Holocaust series by emceeing embassy event

Tucker’s selection as the emcee for the Israeli embassy event, to be Tuesday at the National Building Museum in Washington, D.C., comes as the star builds a reputation for Jewish content.

By GABE FRIEDMAN/JTA
03/06/2023

Auschwitz Museum condemns Polish party video using images of camp

The short video, which PiS posted on social media, aims to discourage people from attending an opposition march that is due to take place in Warsaw on Sunday.

By REUTERS
31/05/2023

Holocaust survivor Judge Thomas Buergenthal passes away at 89

The government of Goettingen, the German city where Buergenthal resided after the war said that he had “tirelessly dedicated himself to reconciliation and for human rights his entire life.”

'Zone of Interest', film on Auschwitz commandant, wins 2nd-highest prize at Cannes

"The Zone of Interest" centers on Auschwitz commandant Rudolf Höss and his family as they set up a life next to the Auschwitz death camp.

On her 100th birthday, a Holocaust survivor threw a first pitch at a Yankees-Rays game

Kahan stood confidently on the Tropicana Field pitcher’s mound with her daughter and son by her side. It didn’t matter that the throw only made it halfway.

By MAX BAKER/JTA
24/05/2023

'Zone of Interest' star: watching myself as Auschwitz commandant frightening

The movie follows Rudolf Höss and his family as they set up a life next to the Auschwitz death camp in occupied Poland.

By REUTERS
20/05/2023

Ice cream truck outside Auschwitz provokes criticism

Since early May, an ice cream stand has sat some 200 meters (about 218 yards) from the camp’s red-brick “Death Gate.”

By SHIRA LI BARTOV/JTA
13/05/2023

From Destruction to Rebirth

March of the Living participants will visit Israel to experience the Jewish reawakening

Holocaust survivors call for more gentiles to participate in memorial ceremonies

JEWISH AFFAIRS: Speakers at the March of the Living remind listeners of the necessity of Israel.

By SHANNA FULD
21/04/2023
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