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This photo taken on August 22, 2026 shows the construction site of a business park at the site of what was once a Nazi forced labour complex in Leobersdorf, Austria. (Jure Cufer/AFP)
August 28, 2026, 11:41 am
Plans for business park atop site of former Nazi labor camp sparks anger in Austria
Activists oppose construction on grounds of Mauthausen concentration camp and Hirtenberg women’s subcamp; supermarket chain Lidl says planned store will sit on adjacent land
By Femke COLBORNE
A teenager wearing a shirt appearing to depict Palestinian terrorist Dalal Mughrabi is seen at the Nazi Mauthausen Concentration Camp Memorial in Austria. (X video screenshot; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
August 8, 2026, 4:46 am
Mauthausen staff call cops after dispute erupts over teen wearing ‘Free Palestine’ shirt
‘Don’t f**king call other things genocide. This is a genocide’: Woman berates tour group as they defend the shirt, which appears to depict Palestinian terrorist who took part in deadly attack on Israeli civilians
By ToI Staff
Olga Czik Kay (Courtesy of Yad Vashem)
April 26, 2022, 10:38 pm
Survivor Olga Kay passes Holocaust education torch to youth to keep fighting denial
Ahead of participation in state Yom Hashoah ceremony, 96-year-old who beat Auschwitz and two other camps says, ‘We must tell our story and keep memory alive’
By Renee Ghert-Zand
George brent at the men's barracks in Auschwitz in a scene from 'Don't Forget Me,' one of the films showing at the virtual reality exhibition 'The Journey Back' at the Illinois Holocaust Museum in Chicago. (Courtesy)
January 27, 2022, 8:20 pm
Holocaust survivors help viewers experience the camps firsthand, via virtual reality
Opening Jan. 27 at the Illinois Holocaust Museum in Chicago, ‘The Journey Back’ puts participants in the narrators’ shoes as they hear their tales of suffering and survival
By Cathryn J. Prince
A Polish flag displayed in front of a former crematorium oven at the Gusen concentration camp in Austria, January 20, 2020. (Joe Klamar/AFP)
January 25, 2020, 4:16 am
Poland pushes for Nazi camp in Austria to be remembered
Warsaw charges that Gusen camp, a satellite of Mauthausen complex, is neglected by Austrian authorities; some 35,800 detainees, many Polish, died there
By Celine JANKOWIAK and Blaise GAUQUELIN
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
The Mauthausen prisoner band playing as inmates are taken to their death, 1942. (Courtesy Claims Conference)
May 2, 2019, 6:07 am
Most Austrians don’t know 6 million Jews were killed in Holocaust, survey finds
A study released on Holocaust Remembrance Day shows ‘appalling lack of knowledge’ about the genocide even while Austrians overestimate their country’s role in saving Jews
By Yaakov Schwartz
Holocaust documentary 'The Last Survivors' is produced by the BBC and features British-raised survivors. (YouTube screenshot)
April 26, 2019, 2:49 am
Discovery Channel and PBS to air Holocaust documentaries for Yom Hashoah
‘Liberation Heroes’ profiles US soldiers who liberated concentration camps; ‘The Last Survivors’ features stories of British-raised survivors
By Curt Schleier
Illustrative: In this photo from 1945 the main gate is pictured at the Mauthausen Concentration Camp, near Linz, Austria. (AP Photo/Lynn Heinzerling, file)
December 22, 2018, 12:36 am
German court says not enough evidence to try alleged Nazi camp guard
Prosecutors to appeal decision to drop case against Hans Werner H., who has admitted to serving in SS but denies being at Mauthausen
By Geir Moulson
Members of a delegation from Israel 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)
November 23, 2018, 11:19 pm
95-year-old alleged SS camp guard charged in Germany
Hans Werner H. faces 36,000 counts of accessory to murder for his time as a guard at the Nazis’ Mauthausen concentration camp
By David Rising
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)
May 1, 2018, 9:33 am
Austria far-right party unwelcome at Nazi camp liberation memorial
Organizers say presence of Freedom Party at Mauthausen concentration camp ceremony would be ‘additional humiliation for the survivors’
By AFP
Migrants and refugees arrive at the railway station in Szentgotthard, 246 kilometers southwest of Budapest, Hungary, near the Austrian border, Sept. 19, 2015. (Gyorgy Varga/MTI via AP)
September 19, 2017, 3:42 pm
Austrian court sentences man who urged gassing of migrants
Man gets 14-month suspended term for violating anti-Nazi laws by calling for reopening Holocaust concentration camp Mauthausen
By AP
From left: Moshe Jakubowitz, Moshe Ha-Elion, Esther Miron, Max Privler, Jeannine Stephane-Bouhanna, Elka Abromovitz, and Moshe Porat, the torch lighters for the 2017 Holocaust Remembrance Day ceremony at Yad Vashem in Jerusalem (Yaakov Schwartz/Times of Israel)
April 21, 2017, 9:52 am
With stories as varied as their accents, survivors ready for Holocaust memorial ceremony
Emotional dress rehearsal at Yad Vashem introduces the six torch-lighters and the woman who will share her story with the country at Sunday’s event
By Yaakov Schwartz
Tibor Rubin wearing a Medal of honor he received at the White House in 2005. (Public domain/Wikipedia)
January 1, 2017, 7:04 pm
Obama inks bill naming hospital after Jewish veteran
Korean War hero Tibor Rubin, Hungarian-born Holocaust survivor, waited 55 years for recognition long-ago delayed by anti-Semitism
By JTA
Sagi Melamed
August 30, 2016, 2:21 pm
Sagi Melamed
Concentration camp and apfelstrudel
How eating apple pastry in Austria became a profound Zionist statement
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