Death camp

'Wrong empathy'? Turkish and Arab students say camp visits spark fear for their own safety - study

New research argues memorials shape which emotions are deemed “legitimate,” highlighting tensions over empathy and belonging.

Dr Mohammad Abdulkarim Al-Issa (front), Secretary General of the Muslim World League leads prayers next to the memorial monument in the former German Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz-Birkenau. Those who appear in this photo aren't mentioned in the article.
Activists announce Marlene Engelhorn, heiress from Zyklon-B fortune, as participant in Gaza flotilla, August 2025.

Flotilla activist inherited $27m. from Nazi-profiteering family

 Prisoners of the Staro Sajmište concentration camp in Belgrade.

Staro Sajmiste: Belgrade's fairground of death for the Balkans' Jews

 Sztutowo, Poland, Sept 5, 2020. The Nazi concentration camp Stutthof.

Irmgard Furchner, former Nazi camp secretary known as 'Secretary of Evil', dies at 99


German court convicts 93-year-old man for Nazi crimes

Dey has admitted that he served at the camp and had knowledge of what took place, but has denied any complicity in the deaths of inmates - claiming that he never bought into the Nazi ideology.

'Death Gate' at Stutthof Concentration Camp

Trial of Nazi death camp guard hears closing arguments

The defendant is being charged for being an accessory to the murder of over 5,000 people at the Stutthof concentration camp during World War II.

'Death Gate' at Stutthof Concentration Camp

Burning Man festival displays Barbie death camp exhibit, creator Jewish

The art installment has been displayed at the festival for eight years in a row.

Barbie death camp, Burning Man festival 2014

Last living survivor of Sobibor uprising dies at 96

In 2018, the Ukrainian Ambassador Hennady Nadolenko awarded Rosenfeld the Ukrainian Order of Merit III degree for his brave actions during World War II.

Sobibor death camp

The greatest escape from the Nazis

At Yad Vashem, families mark 75 years since the Sobibor uprising.

Israeli archaeologist Yoram Haimi and his Polish partner, Wojciech Mazurek, on a break in Sobibor

Former Nazi guard, 94, to go on trial for aiding mass murder

Prosecutors say that the man knew about the murders at the Nazi concentration camp and that the guards were essential to the killings.

Stutthof concentration camp, Poland

Auschwitz guide's home vandalized

Diego Audero Bottero, an Italian-born educator who provides guided tours in Italian at Auschwitz, was met with the slogan "Poland for Poles" when he returned home.

Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland in the snow

What do Holocaust survivors think of ‘Polish death camps’?

Whitewashing history “can be done more easily when our generation is not here, so it’s very important that we have to fight it.”

HOLOCAUST SURVIVORS visit the site of the Auschwitz death camp, during ceremonies marking the 73rd anniversary of the camp’s liberation and International Holocaust Victims Remembrance Day, in Poland in January 2018..

Death camps

We would have thought that the people of a country like Poland that experienced the horror of living under two totalitarian regimes would know better than to restrict freedom of speech.

Auschwitz death camp survivor Jadwiga Bogucka holds a picture of herself from 1944 in Warsaw

Netanyahu, Polish PM agree to open dialogue on controversial legislation

The bill would make it illegal to attribute complicity in the Holocaust to the “Polish nation.”

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu holds up a document outlining plans for the Auschwitz death camp as he addresses the 64th United Nations General Assembly at U.N. headquarters in New York, September 24, 2009.