Auschwitz was liberated 80 years ago. The spotlight is on survivors as their numbers dwindle
Commemorations are being held Monday on the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz Nazi death camp, part of Holocaust Remembrance Day.
Memorializing the Holocaust Needs to Go Beyond Auschwitz
That creates risks: the Holocaust didn’t begin with mass murder. The dehumanization of Jews progressed gradually from public ...
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The family home next to Auschwitz is opening its doors to the world
Since Auschwitz was liberated in January ... for the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the camp on January 27. “When you look at this property, the gardens, the fountains, the normal ...
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What really happened inside the home of the monster of Auschwitz
I had first seen the Hoess villa 16 years ago when I visited the Auschwitz camp. I was with Rudolf Hoess’s grandson Rainer and daughter-in-law Irene, the first family members to return to the ...
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Just 50 Holocaust survivors will be at Auschwitz for the 80th anniversary of its liberation
Szepesi, who grew up in Slovakia and now lives in Frankfurt, Germany, is one of the last survivors of Auschwitz alive today. Just 50 of them are expected to be present on Monday at the camp in ...
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Inside the 80th anniversary of Auschwitz’s liberation
For the focus was on the survivors of Auschwitz, those who had endured the unimaginable, and who on the 80th anniversary of the camp’s liberation had so bravely returned to share their thoughts ...
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The very worst thing about Auschwitz
Eighty years ago this week, the Soviet Army arrived at Auschwitz, the vast death camp established by Nazi Germany in occupied Poland. By that point, Markus Jakubovic — a Jewish 19-year-old from ...
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Auschwitz survivors warn of rising hatred on 80th anniversary of the death camp’s liberation
Commemorations are being held Monday on the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz Nazi death camp, part of Holocaust Remembrance Day. Jan. 25, 2025 Marian Turski, a 98-year-old ...
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Auschwitz: How death camp became centre of Nazi Holocaust
It was 80 years ago that Soviet troops liberated the Nazi death camp at Auschwitz-Birkenau ... 1933 they began to strip Jewish people of all property, freedoms and rights under the law.
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King Charles Makes History with Emotional Visit to Auschwitz for Holocaust Memorial Day: 'A Sacred Moment'
On January 27, King Charles, 76, traveled to Poland to visit the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp on what was described as a "deeply personal pilgrimage." The date marks the anniversary of ...
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Auschwitz memorial holds observances on the 80th anniversary of the death camp’s liberation
OSWIECIM, Poland — The 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz by Soviet troops is being marked on Monday at the site of the former death camp, a ceremony that is widely being treated as ...
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Commemorating liberation at Auschwitz on International Holocaust Remembrance Day
On Jan. 27, 1945, the Auschwitz concentration camp in German-occupied Poland was liberated from Nazi control by the Soviet Red Army. The United Nations designates every Jan. 27, the day of ...