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Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and Museum

Correspondence between Dr. Jan Nowak and his family during the Holocaust (Auschwitz Museum)
July 15, 2026, 12:19 pm
Letters written by Auschwitz doctor offer rare look at wartime family ties
Newly discovered collection highlights correspondence between Jan Nowak, a non-Jewish physician from Kraków, and his family outside the Nazi camps
By Zev Stub
Elon Musk attends the public memorial service for slain right-wing activist Charlie Kirk at State Farm Stadium in Glendale, Arizona, on September 21, 2025. (Patrick T. Fallon / AFP)
November 21, 2025, 10:31 pm
France to investigate Elon Musk’s Grok chatbot after posts denying Holocaust
Grok tweeted that gas chambers at Auschwitz were designed for ‘disinfection with Zyklon B against typhus’ rather than mass murder
By Thomas Adamson
A small Israeli flag on the rail tracks at the site of the former Auschwitz-Birkenau camp during commemorations to honor the victims of the Holocaust, near the historic gate of Birkenau (Auschwitz II) near the village of Brzezinka near Oswiecim, Poland on April 28, 2022. (Wojtek Radwanski / AFP)
August 2, 2025, 9:46 am
Auschwitz museum defends barring IDF group from bringing Israeli flags into Birkenau
After local authorities stopped military delegation from carrying flags into site, museum says flags require prior coordination to avoid politicization of the former death camp
By ToI Staff
Hila Weisz-Gut, 34, an Israeli researcher in Holocaust studies who relocated to Oswiecim to be with her Polish husband, walks on the street in Oswiecim, January 13, 2025. (Wojtek Radwanski/AFP via Getty Images, via JTA)
January 28, 2025, 7:38 am
The only Jew in Oświęcim, Poland, can see Auschwitz from her bedroom window
Hila Weisz-Gut, 34, moved to the Polish town that housed the Nazi death camp to join her Polish boyfriend, whom she met on a Holocaust education trip
By PHILISSA CRAMER
People visit the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp in Oswiecim, Poland, February 15, 2019. (AP Photo/Michael Sohn)
January 13, 2025, 6:08 pm
No politicians, only survivors, to speak at 80th anniversary of Auschwitz liberation
Site director says for first time, leaders won’t be invited to speak, preferring to focus on ‘the last survivors that are among us’; sizable Israeli delegation expected to attend
By ToI Staff
A billboard bearing portraits of Israeli hostages taken by Palestinian terrorists in the October 7 attack in southern Israel is displayed during a demonstration calling for their release, in Tel Aviv on November 15, 2023. (Ahmad Gharabli/AFP)
November 20, 2023, 3:02 pm
Auschwitz Council says release of all hostages ‘essential’ for ending war with Hamas
Advisory body to Polish PM and former concentration camp site says terror group using Gaza civilians as human shields, backs Israel’s claim some Oct. 7 victims were raped
By ToI Staff
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