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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
Polish students learn the history of Oświęcim's Jewish community at the Oshpitzin Jewish Museum on International Holocaust Remembrance Day, January 27, 2025 (Zev Stub/Times of Israel)
February 2, 2025, 9:30 am
In the shadow of Auschwitz, a museum commemorates an ancient Polish Jewish community
Before the Nazis chose Oswiciem as the site of the infamous death camp, Jews thrived in the city for half a millennium. Now, the last Jewish resident keeps their memory alive
By Zev Stub
The grounds of the Auschwitz Research Center on Hate, Extremism, and Radicalization, on the grounds of the one-time home of Nazi commandant Rudolf Höss, on January 27, 2025. (Zev Stub)
January 27, 2025, 7:50 pm
New Auschwitz research center to bring music to notorious Nazi’s reclaimed home
Once a ‘paradise’ occupied by commandant Rudolf Höss, the center will now host research, education, professional training, policy advocacy, and art
By Zev Stub
Elon Musk waves on February 10, 2022, near Brownsville, Texas. (Miguel Roberts/The Brownsville Herald via AP)
August 19, 2023, 9:16 am
Auschwitz museum bashes Elon Musk for severely curbing ‘block’ feature on X
Memorial warns that inability to block antisemitic comments and Holocaust denial ‘would be a disservice’ to the victims of the Nazi death camp
By ToI Staff
The entrance to the Nazi death camp Auschwitz-Birkenau with the lettering 'Arbeit macht frei' ('Work makes you free'). (Joel Saget/AFP)
May 31, 2023, 5:38 pm
Auschwitz museum slams use of death camp in Polish ruling party’s political ad
State-run memorial attacks ‘instrumentalization of tragedy’ by Law and Justice party, which used theme of Nazi camp to discourage participation in upcoming anti-government march
By Vanessa Gera
Elzbieta Cajzer, head of the museum's collections department, shows a collection of shoes that belonged to child victims of the former Nazi death camp Auschwitz-Birkenau at the conservation laboratory on its grounds, Oswiecim, Poland, May 10, 2023. (AP Photo/Michal Dyjuk)
May 15, 2023, 11:24 am
Auschwitz museum begins heartrending work preserving 8,000 shoes of murdered children
In two-year effort, museum processing 100 shoes a week while other evidence, such as hair shaved from victims, turns to dust as the years pass since Holocaust
By Vanessa Gera
An ice cream stand sits outside of the former Auschwitz camp in Oswiecim, Poland. (Dagmar Kopijasz of the Foundation of Memory Sites Near Auschwitz-Birkenau)
May 12, 2023, 1:27 am
Auschwitz museum criticizes ‘tasteless’ ice cream stand near iconic ‘Death Gate’
Stall with pink logo placed 200 meters from the landmark structure in the notorious camp where the Nazis murdered 1.1 million Jews
By Canaan Lidor
This file photo taken on December 5, 2019, shows a man walking by the barbed wire fence enclosing the memorial site of the former Auschwitz German Nazi death camp. (Janek Skarzynski/AFP)
April 8, 2023, 11:06 am
WWE apologizes for using Auschwitz image in preview show
World Wrestling Entertainment says it had no idea that images from Nazi death camp were included in promotional package for match between Rey Mysterio and Dominik Mysterio
By Joe Reedy
Russian President Vladimir Putin chairs a meeting with the cabinet via a video link at the Novo-Ogaryovo state residence outside Moscow on January 24, 2023 (Mikhail Klimentyev / SPUTNIK / AFP)
January 27, 2023, 4:42 pm
Putin blasts ‘neo-Nazis’ in Ukraine on Holocaust Remembrance Day
Russian leader says ‘forgetting the lessons of history leads to the repetition of terrible tragedies’ as he continues to compare war against Hitler with current conflict
By AFP
People walk next to the 'Arbeit Macht Frei' (Work Sets You Free) gate at the former Nazi German concentration and extermination camp Auschwitz-Birkenau in Oswiecim, Poland, January 26, 2023 (AP Photo/Michal Dyjuk)
January 27, 2023, 4:37 pm
Auschwitz liberation marked without Russia, as European peace again shattered by war
None of Putin’s officials invited to annual event on International Holocaust Remembrance Day, as Moscow’s war on Ukraine continues
By Vanessa Gera
Illustrative: Jewish people visit the Auschwitz Nazi concentration camp after the March of the Living annual observance, in Oswiecim, Poland, April 28, 2022. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)
January 25, 2023, 9:46 pm
Auschwitz museum: Russia not invited to event marking camp’s liberation by Red Army
Director of site says Moscow ‘will need an extremely long time and very deep self-examination’ before it could possibly return to attending ‘gatherings of the civilized world’
By AFP
Jerry Stahl is the author of 'Nein, Nein, Nein!: One Man's Tale of Depression, Psychic Torment, and a Bus Tour of the Holocaust.' (Akashic Books/ via JTA)
July 11, 2022, 11:35 pm
A writer faces his demons — and history’s — on a guided tour of Holocaust sites
In the nonfiction ‘Nein, Nein, Nein!’ novelist and screenwriter Jerry Stahl explores how we remember the tragedy and whether it’s possible to properly mourn and honor its victims
By Andrew Silow-Carroll
This photo from October 19, 2012 shows the gate of the former Nazi German death camp of Auschwitz in Oswiecim, Poland. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)
June 25, 2022, 6:19 pm
Auschwitz Museum alleges it’s a target of Russian propaganda
Memorial denounces false images shared by Moscow’s state media claiming to show anti-Russian stickers at the former Nazi death camp
By Vanessa Gera
Head of Yad Vashem Dani Dayan (Alex Kolomoisky/Yad Vashem)
February 27, 2022, 6:14 pm
Yad Vashem ‘deplores’ Russian invasion, condemns use of Nazi rhetoric by both sides
Israel’s Holocaust museum, which has received major donations from Putin-tied oligarchs, refrains from singling out Moscow in its statement, on 4th day after fighting began
By Judah Ari Gross
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (C) departs after speaking at the Lincoln Memorial to a "Defeat the Mandates" rally in Washington, DC, on January 23, 2022.(Stefani Reynolds / AFP)
January 24, 2022, 4:32 pm
RFK Jr. utilizes Holocaust analogy in speech to DC anti-vaccine rally
Comments by son of assassinated US attorney general are slammed by Auschwitz Memorial, which calls them ‘a sad symptom of moral and intellectual decay’
By Shira Hanau
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