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Holocaust survivor Ester Senot, 97, 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)
May 4, 2025, 1:58 pm
Death camp survivors recall horrors as France marks 80 years since Nazi surrender
Ester Senot survived over a year at Auschwitz; when she returned to France weighing 32 kilograms, neighbors reacted with disbelief at her stories, said she was ‘talking nonsense’
By Sylvie Corbet
Sweater that Chana Zumerkorn from Lodz gave to her brother Joseph when they parted during the Holocaust (Yad Vashem Artifacts Collection, Gift of Joseph Zumerkorn, 11735)
April 23, 2025, 7:59 am
Clothing historian stitches together Holocaust history by focusing on ‘women’s work’
Nonfiction ‘Four Red Sweaters’ tells wartime stories of four young Jewish women while examining larger questions such as Nazis’ circular economy and perpetrator psychology
By Renee Ghert-Zand
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
A boy visiting the Kazerne Dossin Holocaust museum in Mechelen, Belgium, on December 22, 2019. (Cnaan Liphshiz/JTA)
January 23, 2025, 9:03 am
No need for Belgium’s railway to pay for sending Jews to death camps, panel finds
Government commission concludes Belgian National Railway Company should apologize for WWII transports; Holocaust restitution group pans outcome
By Shira Li Bartov
The Sharaka delegation to March of the Living visits Auschwitz, April 27, 2022. (Yaakov Schwartz/ Times of Israel)
April 28, 2022, 4:02 pm
Muslim influencers visit Auschwitz, seek to bring truth of Holocaust to Arab world
A group of young leaders from Lebanon, Syria, Gulf countries join the Sharaka organization to strengthen the bond between Israel and the Arab world following the Abraham Accords
By Yaakov Schwartz
A photo taken on April 9, 2021 shows old train tracks leading past a former canteen building of SS guards at the former Nazi Germany death camp Auschwitz-Birkenau, in Oswiecim, Poland (BARTOSZ SIEDLIK / AFP)
March 25, 2022, 6:36 pm
Slovakia parliament condemns mass Holocaust deportations of Jews to Nazi death camps
Over 70,000 Slovakian Jews taken to concentration camps, with authorities paying Nazi Germany for each Jewish citizen who was transported; extreme far-right party skips vote
By AP
Barbed wire fence and a watch tower are seen at the former Nazi Death Camp Stutthof, in Sztutowo, July 21, 2020. (Wojtek RADWANSKI / AFP)
September 30, 2021, 6:01 am
Former Nazi death camp secretary, a 96-year-old woman, stands trial
Irmgard Furchner is charged with complicity in murders of more than 10,000 people Stutthof — one of first women prosecuted in such a crime in decades
By Yannick Pasquet
In this file photo taken on July 21, 2020 a woman is seen next to a gas chamber at the museum of the former Nazi Death Camp Stutthof, in Sztutowo, July 21, 2020. (Wojtek RADWANSKI / AFP)
February 5, 2021, 5:16 pm
In rare case against a woman, Berlin charges Nazi camp aide with role in murders
Using testimony from survivors, Germany says woman, 95, had ‘concrete responsibility’ in murder of 10,000 victims while serving as assistant, stenographer for Stutthof camp head
By Hui Min NEO
Historican Martin Cueppers points at a man, presumably former security guard John Demjanjuk, at the Nazi death camp Sobibor during a news conference of newly discovered photos from the Sobibor camp in Berlin, Germany, January 28, 2020. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)
January 28, 2020, 7:14 pm
Berlin museum unveils photos possibly featuring Demjanjuk at Sobibor death camp
Historians say rare photos of camp — only 2 were previously known — appear to show American tried in Germany for allegedly being a guard there
By Kerstin Sopke and Geir Moulson
In this photograph taken in April 1945, survivors of the Buchenwald Nazi concentration camp sit on a latrine, after the liberation of the camp by Allied troops. (Eric Schwab/AFP)
January 14, 2020, 1:42 pm
How the world discovered the Nazi death camps
When the Allies liberated the first camps, the ghastly images of what they found were not widely shared. The discovery of Ohrdruf marked a turning point
By AFP
The entrance to Auschwitz, a Nazi death camp, in Oswiecim, Poland, on December 4, 2008. (Valery Hache/AFP)
From the WebDecember 8, 2019, 11:52 pm
72 years after they survived Auschwitz together, lovers were reunited
For years, David Wisnia had wondered whether Helen Spitzer’s connections in the camp had saved him from death, the New York Times reports. In 2016, he finally got a chance to ask
Members of the international Mauthausen committee arrive for a ceremony to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi concentration camp in Mauthausen, Austria, Sunday, May 10, 2015. . (AP Photo/Ronald Zak)
December 6, 2019, 8:32 pm
Poland wants to buy site of WWII Nazi death camp in Austria
Warsaw says contemporary housing developments and business firms that cover a part of Mauthausen-Gusen do not befit its nature; victims included tens of thousands of Poles
By AP
A man crosses the iconic rails leading to the former Nazi death camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau in Poland, July 29, 2016. (AP Photo/Alik Keplicz, FILE)
April 13, 2019, 9:44 pm
‘I weighed 70 pounds’: Last Auschwitz survivors remember a living hell
As those who suffered through Nazi death camp pass away, the living vow to keep telling their stories to younger generations
By Michel Moutot
The Bratwurst Museum at its current location in Holzhausen (Facebook photo)
February 2, 2019, 2:06 pm
After outcry, German sausage museum nixes plans to move to former Nazi camp
Association behind museum says it had not been aware of Muehlhausen site’s history: ‘We definitely won’t build there’
By Agencies
Inmates at the Buchenwald concentration camp, days after liberation. Famed author Elie Wiesel is second row from the bottom, seventh from the left, next to the bunk post. (US Army/US Defense Visual Information Center/Wikimedia Commons)
February 1, 2019, 1:47 am
Sausage museum plan at site tied to ex-Nazi camp sparks outcry in Germany
Around 700 Jewish women were held and forced to work at Buchenwald’s Muehlhausen site, now being redeveloped into a tourist attraction
By AFP
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