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Auschwitz

Former prisoners of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp at an International Holocaust Remembrance day event at the former camp in Oswiecim, Poland, Jan. 27, 2020. (Photo/JTA-Damian Klamka-SOPA Images-LightRocket via Getty Images)
Posted inWorld

A global day of Holocaust remembrance grows in scope — and urgency

Cnaan Liphshiz, Netherlands-based Europe Correspondent for JTA by Cnaan Liphshiz and JTA January 27, 2022January 27, 2022
Eddie Jaku shows the concentration camp number tattoo on his left arm, July 2, 2020. (Photo/JTA-Louise Kennerley-The Sydney Morning Herald via Getty Images)
Posted inObituaries

Holocaust survivor who called himself ‘The Happiest Man on Earth’ dies at 101

Gabe Friedman by Gabe Friedman and JTA October 13, 2021
Two Auschwitz prisoners escape in a scene from "The Auschwitz Report." (Photo/Samuel Goldwyn Films)
Posted inFilm

Review: ‘The Auschwitz Report’ clunkily dramatizes escapees who warned the world

by Andrew Lapin and JTA September 28, 2021
Virtual memorial plaques are projected on the gates of Auschwitz-Birkenau for Holocaust Remembrance Day, 2020. (Photo/JTA-Marcin Kozlowski-March of the Living)
Posted inHolidays

Virtual memorial plaques projected on gates of Auschwitz for Holocaust Remembrance Day

Marcy Oster by Marcy Oster and JTA April 21, 2020
Hungarian Jews arrive at Auschwitz in 1944. (Wikimedia Commons)
Posted inHolocaust Remembrance Day

Auschwitz at 75: From sorrow to song

by Rabbi Joshua Hammerman and RNS January 27, 2020January 27, 2020
Speaker of the United States House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi lays a wreath during the Fifth World Holocaust Forum in Jerusalem, Israel on January 23, 2020. (Pool/Getty Images)
Posted inHolocaust Remembrance Day

At Auschwitz event, Pelosi recalls protesting for the release of Soviet Jews

by Ron Kampeas and JTA January 27, 2020January 27, 2020
Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks at the Fifth World Holocaust Forum at the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial museum in Jerusalem, Jan. 23, 2020. (Photo/JTA-Yonatan Sindel-Flash90)
Posted inHolocaust Remembrance Day

Historians call Putin’s speech at global Auschwitz commemoration ‘completely false’ and ‘ridiculous’

by Sam Sokol and JTA January 23, 2020January 23, 2020
The macabre scene at the Barbie Death Camp at this year's Burning Man
Posted inCulture

‘Auschwitz-themed’ Barbie Death Camp at Burning Man catches ADL’s eye

Gabe Stutman by Gabe Stutman September 4, 2019September 10, 2019
Ulrike Shragge (right) eating hummus with a friend in Jerusalem, summer 2019
Posted inOpinion

How a trip to Poland and Israel changed my life

Ulrike Shragge by Ulrika Shragge July 29, 2019July 30, 2019
Carole Priven's tattoo is a copy of the one that was forced on her late husband at Auschwitz.
Posted inYom HaShoah

Your tattoo was forced on you at Auschwitz. Mine honors your memory.

Carole Priven by Carole Priven April 30, 2019May 2, 2019

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