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Topic: Majdanek

April 18, 2013
10:00 pm

Warsaw Ghetto survivor Jakub Gutenbaum, 83, in Warsaw, Poland, on Thursday, April 18, 2013 (photo credit: AP/Alik Keplicz)

Warsaw Ghetto survivor recalls living through inferno

Jakub Gutenbaum was 13 when the uprising broke out; later he survived Majdanek

By MONIKA SCISLOWSKA

April 9, 2013
4:01 am

Holocaust survivor Pinchas Gutter as appearing on the hologram-like interactive presentation developed by the USC Shoah Foundation. (photo credit: USC Institute for Creative Technology)

Adding a new dimension to Holocaust testimony

New technology affords future generations the privilege of personal interactive conversations with survivors

By Edmon J. Rodman

April 5, 2013
6:03 am

A Holocaust survivor lays a wreath in the Hall of Remembrance at the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial in Jerusalem. September 20, 2012. (photo credit: Yoav Ari Dudkevitch/Flash90)

Holocaust Remembrance torchlighters shine light on defiance

This year’s Remembrance Day ceremony to focus on heroic survival stories

By Adiv Sterman

January 8, 2013
4:58 pm

The mausoleum at the Majdanek concentration camp outside Lublin, Poland. Under the dome are the ashes of the victims of a November 1943 mass execution that completed the liquidation of the Jewish population of the Lublin district. (photo credit: CC BY-ND Kasia/Flickr)

Poland probes artist’s claim that he used Holocaust victims’ ash to ‘paint’ a picture

Ghoulish work was displayed in a Swedish gallery and later pulled following protests from Jewish groups

By Elie Leshem

December 13, 2012
9:27 pm

Swedish gallery pulls art made of Holocaust victims’ ashes

Painting with burned remains from Majdanek death camp removed following protests

December 6, 2012
8:37 am

Out of the ashes, a ghoulish display

Swedish artist uses remains of Holocaust victims, taken from a concentration camp mausoleum, to create a macabre ‘painting’

By Elie Leshem

December 2, 2012
10:59 pm

Shoshana Golan, left, a Holocaust survivor who changed her name from Rozia Beiman, reunites in New York with Wladyslawa Dudziak, a Pole who passed her off as a family member during the Holocaust. (Chavie Lieber/JTA)

Nearly 70 years on, Holocaust survivor reunites with ‘Righteous’ rescuer

At 85, Polish woman takes her first flight to meet the Jewish ‘cousin’ her parents hid from the Nazis

By Chavie Lieber

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

August 31, 2012
7:18 pm

Visitors walk the grounds of Majdanek, where more than 75,000 prisoners were murdered during the Holocaust. (Photo credit: Yossi Zeliger/Flash90)

Polish mayor joins ADL in opposing crematorium near death camp

Leader of neighboring Lublin says burning bodies near Majdanek would be disrespectful to its victims

August 30, 2012
8:26 pm

Polish company plans crematorium near Nazi death camp

ADL asks mayor of neighboring city to block ‘reprehensible’ proposal

August 26, 2012
4:47 am

Fifty descendants of Germans involved in the Holocaust visited Poland's death camps this week as part of the March of Life, a multi-day trek commemorating the genocide. (Photo credit: Heinz Reuss/TOS Ministries)

Grandpa, who helped install the gas chambers

Like many before her, Barbel Pfeiffer participated in an emotional visit to Auschwitz and other death camps last week. What was extraordinary is that she and 50 others on the ‘March of Life’ are descendants of Nazis and Nazi collaborators