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Auschwitz-Birkenau

Holocaust survivor Ginette Kolinka, 100, attends a commemorative ceremony to mark the 80th anniversary of the return of death camp deportees, in Paris, France, April 27, 2025. (AP Photo/Thomas Padilla)
March 31, 2026, 1:31 pm
At 101, Holocaust survivor credits Spielberg for her ongoing fight against hatred
Ginette Kolinka, who survived Auschwitz, stayed silent for decades until Hollywood director’s foundation interviewed her in 1997; now, she shares her story in media and schools
By John Leicester
A federal police agent holds two photos and the identity card found in the house in which the man believed to be Nazi war criminal Josef Mengele lived, June 7, 1985. Photo on left shows Mengele eating. Photo on right shows Mengele during a picnic with friends and in the middle is the identity card. (AP Photo)
December 1, 2025, 8:17 am
Argentina had detailed info on Mengele during his decade there, documents show
Auschwitz’s ‘Angel of Death’ felt so comfortable in South American country that he began to use his real name in 1956, and requested his formal identification papers be reissued
By ToI Staff
Cans of Zyklon B on display at Auschwitz. (photo credit: CC BY Jaysmark, Flickr)
November 19, 2025, 11:36 pm
French authorities probing Grok AI over ‘Holocaust-denying comments’
X chatbot made post Monday, since seen by over a million people, falsely claiming Nazi gas chambers were designed for disinfection instead of mass execution
By AFP
Auschwitz survivor Dita Kraus, number 73305, at her home in Netanya. (Courtesy)
October 19, 2025, 9:54 am
‘Librarian of Auschwitz’: Holocaust survivor Dita Kraus dies at 96
Kraus survived Terezin Ghetto, Auschwitz, Bergen-Belsen before moving to Israel in 1949; book published in 2012 brought story of concentration camp’s secret library to wider audience
By ToI Staff
Tova Ringer, a 93-year-old Holocaust survivor, wins the "Miss Holocaust Survivor" beauty pageant in the northern Israeli city of Haifa, on October 14, 2018. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)
September 11, 2025, 5:39 pm
Tova Ringer, former winner of ‘Miss Holocaust Survivor,’ dies at 102
Polish-born Haifa resident survived Auschwitz, is remembered for her dedication to Holocaust education, meeting groups from Israel and abroad
By ToI Staff
Footage shared to social media shows Charlotte Korchak, a guide of a youth group from Miami, being confronted for carrying an Israeli flag near the grounds of the Auschwitz Nazi concentration camp, Poland, in August 2025. (X; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
August 19, 2025, 6:39 pm
Jewish educator fights back when confronted at Auschwitz for waving Israeli flag
‘You are killing children,’ woman tells Charlotte Korchak on train tracks outside death camp with group of US teens; she retorts: ‘I will never be ashamed to wear this flag’
By ToI Staff
People stand still in Jerusalem as a two-minute siren is sounded across Israel to mark Holocaust Remembrance Day on April 24, 2025. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
April 24, 2025, 5:05 pm
Israel marks Holocaust Remembrance Day under shadow of ongoing Gaza hostage crisis
Two-minute siren brings country to a halt; wreaths laid at Yad Vashem; names of Nazis’ victims read at Knesset, March of Living held at Auschwitz; plight of captives constant theme
By ToI Staff and Jessica Steinberg
Bereaved Israelis, relatives of hostages and released hostages sing 'Hatikvah' at Auschwitz, April 23, 2025 (Channel 12 screenshot)
April 24, 2025, 10:04 am
At Auschwitz, Oct. 7 survivors and freed hostages sing ‘Hatikvah’
10 former hostages to participate in annual March of the Living event at former Nazi death camp; Holocaust survivor tells two released hostages: ‘We stand firm in the face of evil’
By ToI Staff and JTA
Visitors enter through the main gate with the inscription "Arbeit macht frei" (literally in English: "work makes (one) free") at the entrance to the Auschwitz German Nazi death camp ahead of German Chancellor Angela Merkel's landmark visit in Oswiecim, Poland, on December 5, 2019. (JANEK SKARZYNSKI / AFP)
March 10, 2025, 1:53 am
Israeli student detained and fined for alleged Nazi salute on trip to Auschwitz
Security guards spotted member of group from Kiryat Bialik high school with arm raised; companion asserts he was just waving to spoil another’s photo of camp entrance gates
By ToI Staff
Holocaust survivor Marian Turski addresses guests at the Auschwitz-Birkenau former Nazi German concentration and extermination camp, during a ceremony marking the 80th anniversary of its liberation, in Oswiecim, Poland, Monday, Jan. 27. 2025. (AP/Czarek Sokolowski)
February 18, 2025, 11:45 pm
Marian Turski, Holocaust survivor who warned against creeping hate, dies at 98
Historian, journalist and co-founder of Polish Jewish museum used Remembrance Day speech last month to caution against indifference, warning it could lead to ‘another Auschwitz’
By Vanessa Gera
Britain's King Charles III looks at discarded personal belongings next to a showcase with shoes of victims during a tour at the Memorial and Museum Auschwitz-Birkenau, at the site of the former German Nazi concentration and extermination camp, in Oswiecim, Poland, on January 27, 2025, following commemorations on the 80th anniversary of the camp's liberation by the Red Army. (Aaron Chown / POOL / AFP)
From the WebJanuary 28, 2025, 4:48 pm
Tearful King Charles becomes first UK monarch to visit Auschwitz
Aides say king’s visit was ‘deeply personal pilgrimage’ as he took part in events marking 80th anniversary of liberation of the Nazi death camp, UK Jewish news reports
By Lee Harpin
Old railroad tracks once used to transport Jewish people and others from across Europe to Auschwitz, the Nazi German extermination and labor camp, runs along a road in the town of Oswiecim, Poland, January 23, 2025. (Oded Balilty/AP)
January 27, 2025, 10:36 am
Around Auschwitz, rail tracks are aging reminders of its horror
Lines that transported over a million people to their deaths during Holocaust remain embedded in the ground, passing through bus stations, along roads and over countryside
By Oded Balilty
French holocaust survivor Esther Senot poses with a photo of her family during a photo session at the Institut des Invalides in Paris, on December 11, 2024. (Joel Saget / AFP)
January 24, 2025, 9:03 am
Auschwitz survivors return to death camp site, urging young visitors to remember
Esther Senot, 96, recalls vow to dying sister that if she made it out of the camp alive, she’d tell their story; Holocaust educators prepare for a future without survivors
By Claire Gallen
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz attends an event titled 'Day of Remembrance 80 Years Since the Liberation of Auschwitz - What Now?' on January 19, 2025 in Frankfurt am Main, western Germany. (Kirill KUDRYAVTSEV / AFP)
January 20, 2025, 11:31 am
Germany must never ‘turn the page’ on the Holocaust, says Scholz
Speaking at Jewish community event to mark 80th anniversary of Auschwitz liberation, chancellor notes ‘worrying and alarming normalization’ of antisemitism
By AFP and ToI Staff
Britain's Prime Minister Keir Starmer and his wife Victoria Starmer visit the Memorial And Museum Auschwitz-Birkenau in Oswiecim, Poland, Jan. 17, 2025. (Aleksandra Szmigiel/Pool via AP)
January 17, 2025, 7:47 pm
Visiting Auschwitz, UK’s Starmer decries ‘poison of antisemitism rising around the world’
British PM says trip to concentration camp enabled him to see more clearly how the industrial-level killing was ‘a collective endeavor by thousands of ordinary people’
By AP and ToI Staff
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