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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 374

Piotr Cywinski

The director of the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum Piotr Cywinski delivers a speech during a ceremony at the Auschwitz-Birkenau Nazi death camp in Oswiecim, Poland, January 27, 2020. (Markus Schreiber/AP)
January 26, 2022, 4:27 pm
Auschwitz foundation launches ‘Indifference Challenge’ to counter apathy to racism
Grant program will reward projects tackling racial prejudice, antisemitism and discrimination; chairman warns that bystanders facilitate bigotry
By AFP and ToI Staff
Piotr Cywinski, the director of the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum, at a press conference in Oswiecim, Poland, January 26, 2020. (Beata Zawrzel/NurPhoto via Getty Images/ via JTA/ SUE)
December 21, 2020, 3:42 pm
Normally reticent Auschwitz museum director wades into Yad Vashem controversy
Piotr Cywiński makes the unusual move of speaking up about an Israeli plan for hawkish Effi Eitam, who has been accused of racist rhetoric, to head Israel’s Holocaust center
By Cnaan Liphshiz
The director of the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum Piotr Cywinski delivers a speech during a ceremony at the Auschwitz-Birkenau Nazi death camp in Oswiecim, Poland, January 27, 2020. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)
September 25, 2020, 11:34 pm
Auschwitz museum head asks to swap spots with Nigerian boy jailed for blasphemy
After 13-year-old sentenced to 120 months in prison over conversation with a friend, Piotr Cywiński tells Nigeria’s president he’ll finance the boy’s education if he’s freed
By Cnaan Liphshiz
Auschwitz Museum director Piotr Cywińsk (Jaroslaw Praszkiewicz)
January 22, 2020, 6:35 am
Director of Auschwitz Museum slams holding of World Holocaust Forum in Jerusalem
Piotr Cywinski accuses organizers of trying to replace annual ceremony in Poland; fumes that ‘it’s simply so provocative and immature that I do not find the words to comment on it’
By Raphael Ahren
The Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp (Ilan Ben Zion/Times of Israel)
May 23, 2013, 12:33 pm
Muslim clerics visit Nazi death camp
‘I tried to prevent my tears from my eyes because it’s very difficult to see how many people were killed without any reason,’ Ramallah imam says
By Gavriel Fiske and JTA
Poland provided the most visitors to Auschwitz last year, followed by the UK, US, Italy and Germany. (Serge Attal/Flash 90)
January 4, 2013, 8:30 pm
Auschwitz sets record with 1.43 million visitors in 2012
Tourist trips to the death camp have tripled in the past decade, both preserving victims’ memory and threatening to damage the site
Drancy, the biggest French concentration camp, where 100,000 Jews were imprisoned and sent to Auschwitz between 1941 and 1945. (photo credit: Serge Attal/Flash 90)
February 24, 2012, 8:06 am
US, Poland tussle over Auschwitz barrack
Poland demands return of artifact that has been on loan to Washington’s Holocaust Museum for over 20 years
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