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Auschwitz: 80 years after liberation, Holocaust survivors share their stories
January 27, 2025 3:08 pm
Three survivors of the Holocaust, who endured unimaginable horrors during at Auschwitz recount their experiences and the impact it had on their lives.
The horrors of the Holocaust and Auschwitz, trivialised by Amazon Prime’s Bawaal
July 30, 2023 12:41 pm
The Holocaust is one of the most traumatic episodes in modern history, which resulted in the death of around six million Jews living in Adolf Hitler’s Nazi regime.
WWE apologizes for using Auschwitz image in preview show Los Angeles
April 08, 2023 10:41 am
The image was used in a promotional package for the match between Rey Mysterio and Dominik Mysterio on a preview show on April 1.
Auschwitz survivor Leon Schwarzbaum dies at 101 in Germany
March 14, 2022 11:57 pm
Schwarzbaum died early Monday in Potsdam near Berlin, the International Auschwitz Committee reported on its website. No cause of death was given.
Auschwitz survivors mark anniversary online amid pandemic
January 27, 2021 3:25 pm
The commemorations for the victims of the Holocaust at the International Holocaust Remembrance Day, marking the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau on January 27, 1945, will be mostly online in 2021 due to the coronavirus pandemic.
Auschwitz director offers to serve sentence of Nigerian teen jailed for blasphemy
September 26, 2020 11:32 am
In a letter addressed to President Muhammadu Buhari, Auschwitz Memorial Director Dr Piotr Cywinski said he and 119 other volunteers from across the world were each willing to serve a month in prison.
Yom HaShoah: Why Israel remembers the Holocaust on a different day
April 21, 2020 8:08 am
Since 1959, when the Knesset officially established the Yom HaShoah in law, entertainment in public places like cinema halls and theaters have been banned on this day. In 1961, laws were amended to include closures of cafes, restaurants and clubs on the 27th day of Nissan.
Explained: Importance of the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz
January 28, 2020 8:02 am
In many ways, Auschwitz has become the center of Holocaust history and research and serves as a reminder of the horrors of the Holocaust. On January 27 this year, survivors of the Holocaust and international heads of state will mark the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz.
Ex-Auschwitz guard, 95, dies before conviction binding
June 01, 2017 5:42 pm
In what is likely to be one of Germany's last trials for World War Two-era atrocities, Reinhold Hanning was convicted last June by a judge who branded him a "willing and efficient henchman" in the Holocaust
Auschwitz accountant convicted of 300,000 counts of accessory to murder of Jews
July 15, 2015 8:30 pm
Groening served as a bookkeeper at the death camp in Nazi-occupied Poland, sorting and counting the money taken from those killed or used as slave labour.
AUSCHWITZ PHOTOS
Survivors return to Auschwitz 75 years after liberation
January 29, 2020 8:27 am
Most of the 1.1 million people murdered by the Nazi German forces at the camp were Jewish, but among those imprisoned there were also Poles and Russians. In pic: The site of the former Nazi German concentration camp Auschwitz.
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