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International Auschwitz Committee

Holocaust survivor Marian Turski addresses guests at the Auschwitz-Birkenau former Nazi German concentration and extermination camp, during a ceremony marking the 80th anniversary of its liberation, in Oswiecim, Poland, Monday, Jan. 27. 2025. (AP/Czarek Sokolowski)
February 18, 2025, 11:45 pm
Marian Turski, Holocaust survivor who warned against creeping hate, dies at 98
Historian, journalist and co-founder of Polish Jewish museum used Remembrance Day speech last month to caution against indifference, warning it could lead to ‘another Auschwitz’
By Vanessa Gera
Anne Frank in her school in Amsterdam. (Public domain)
November 6, 2023, 9:25 pm
Outcry as German ‘Anne Frank’ daycare plans rename as kids indifferent to her story
School in Tangerhütte intends to rebrand as ‘World Explorers,’ reportedly because migrant families aren’t familiar with story of Holocaust diarist; mayor says move not finalized
By JTA and ToI Staff
Hungary's Prime Minister Viktor Orban acknowledges cheering supporters during an election night rally in Budapest, Hungary, on April 3, 2022. (Petr David Josek/AP)
July 26, 2022, 10:36 pm
Holocaust survivors call out Hungary’s Orban for ‘stupid and dangerous’ race speech
International Auschwitz Committee says Hungarian premier’s remarks, in which he decried interracial mixing, are reminiscent of ‘dark times’
By AFP
A view of the Babyn Yar Holocaust Memorial Center in Kyiv on March 2, 2022. (Dimitar DILKOFF / AFP)
March 3, 2022, 10:12 am
Holocaust survivors condemn Putin’s ‘denazification’ claim in Ukraine
Signatories to statement say Russian leader’s unacceptable justification of invasion as action against Nazis and alleged genocide only serves to ‘tarnish’ the words
By AFP and ToI Staff
An oversized urn covered with a black plastic wrap placed by the artist group Center for Political Beauty in front of German parliament building, the Reichstag in Berlin, Germany, December 5, 2019. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)
December 5, 2019, 12:16 pm
German activists apologize for using ‘ashes of Auschwitz victims’ in protest
Giant urn outside Reichstag now covered in black plastic; Center for Political Beauty says its intention was to highlight far-right extremism
By AP
This photo from December 2, 2019, shows an oversized urn placed by the artist group 'Center for Political Beauty" in front of German parliament building, the Reichstag, in Berlin, Germany. (Photo/Markus Schreiber)
December 3, 2019, 3:49 pm
Outrage after activists place ashes of ‘Auschwitz victims’ outside Reichstag
International Auschwitz Committee says large urn outside German parliament in Berlin harms ‘eternal peace of the dead;’ Germany’s Council of Jews urges remains be given respect
By Kirsten Grieshaber
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