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Topic: Auschwitz

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November 29, 2012
8:12 pm

They had a choice and they chose evil: on the murder of Norway’s Jews

The key issue of anti-Semitism and every form of racism is the danger to democracy, civilization and the future of humanity.

By Michael Melchior

November 26, 2012
10:14 pm

The stately prewar synagogue in Trondheim, Norway, has in some ways held up better than the country's tiny Jewish community. (Photo credit: CC BY/Trondheim Byarkiv via Flickr.com)

Seventy years after the Donau, what has Norway learned?

On the anniversary of the country’s largest transport of Jews to Auschwitz, a Norwegian journalist ponders the history and future of a tiny, endangered minority

By Leif Knutsen

November 25, 2012
11:21 pm

A bright moment in Budapest

An inspiring rally of 3,000 Hungarians in support of Israel and against the anti-Semitic Jobbik party

By Efraim Zuroff

November 9, 2012
11:16 pm

Jane Fonda (second from left) appears with scholars Dan Leshem, Jessica Neuwirth (second from right) and Rochelle G. Saidel at a Los Angeles symposium on sexual violence during the Holocaust. (Photo credit: Courtesy of Kim Fox)

Jane Fonda calls for more public attention to sexual violence during the Holocaust

Oscar winner performs dramatic reading of work by Israeli author Nava Semel at a US symposium promoting study of a long overlooked topic

By Daniel Weizmann

October 22, 2012
4:10 pm

The Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp (photo credit: Ilan Ben Zion/Times of Israel)

Oldest Auschwitz survivor dies at 108

Non-Jewish teacher was imprisoned for resisting German attempt to suppress Polish culture

October 19, 2012
5:33 pm

Prince Albert of Monaco visits Auschwitz memorial

On official trip to Poland, prince writes in visitors’ book that mass slaughter will never be forgotten

October 17, 2012
4:00 pm

Italian prime minister says he will stand by country’s Jews

Leader makes promise at ceremony commemorating deportation of Rome Jewry during Holocaust

October 2, 2012
9:29 pm

Poland provided the most visitors to Auschwitz last year, followed by the UK, US, Italy and Germany. (Serge Attal/Flash 90)

Auschwitz Sonderkommando Shlomo Venezia dies at 88

Greek-born prisoner wrote about his survival transporting corpses from gas chambers to crematorium

October 1, 2012
1:41 pm

An illustrative photo of an Auschwitz survivor displaying his concentration camp-identification, permanently inked onto his forearm (photo credit: Wikimedia Commons)

Proudly tattooing elders’ scars

NYT: Tattooing relatives’ concentration camp-ID numbers is becoming a new fad among Israelis who seek to memorialize the Holocaust

September 23, 2012
1:30 pm

The home of Johann "Hans" Breyer, center, is seen in Philadelphia, on Wednesday, September 19, 2012 (photo credit: AP/Matt Rourke)

Philadelphia man accused of being SS Auschwitz guard

Johann “Hans” Breyer under investigation by Germany after failed attempts by the US Department of Justice to have him stripped of US citizenship and deported

By David Rising and Matt Moore and Randy Herschaft

September 16, 2012
4:07 pm

France gives highest honor to ex-politician who survived Auschwitz

Simone Veil, who escaped the Nazi death camp, is one of only 70 people have received the Grand Cross since Napoleon Bonaparte established it in 1802

September 6, 2012
9:12 am

Frisians in traditional garb celebrating Fisherman's Day in Harlingen, Aug. 31, 2012. (photo credit: Cnaan Liphshiz)

New Dutch translation of Talmud is a tribute to Friesland’s nearly vanished Jews

In the northern Netherlands, a community that has dwindled to 50 celebrates a unique form of Judaism

By Cnaan Liphshiz

August 30, 2012
9:17 pm

An archaeologist examines a skull uncovered at Warsaw's Powazki cemetery, where Poles hope to find the remains of Auschwitz survivor Witold Pilecki. (Photo credit: Alik Keplicz/AP)

Poles search for the bones of the only volunteer Auschwitz inmate

A member of the anti-Nazi resistance, Witold Pilecki entered the death camp to document German atrocities

By MONIKA SCISLOWSKA

August 26, 2012
5:07 pm

Main entrance to Auschwitz (photo credit: CC-BY-SA Tulio Bertorini)

Estonian gas company uses Auschwitz to advertise products

Website publishes photograph of the Nazi death camp, apparently referring to a Hitler joke

August 20, 2012
11:16 am

Brazil’s Jewish community announces creation of Anne Frank ‘educational network’

The network’s schools will teach tolerance according to methods developed by the Amsterdam-based Anne Frank House

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