Politics | Opinion

Why are you angry at the Auschwitz Museum?

The anti-Israel brigade has lost the moral plot.

History | History

Shattering Another Excuse for FDR's Holocaust Apathy

Contemporary defenders of President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Holocaust record argue that there was no point in bombing the railways to Auschwitz because the Germans sometimes were able to repair railway lines fairly quickly.

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Holocaust survivor, among last prisoners of Auschwitz, passes away

Mordechai Papirblat was a prisoner who worked in hard labor for a period of about 900 days until he managed to escape from a death march at the end of January 1945.

BDE. We are losing these people rapidly, they represent the last living witnesses to the worst crime ever perpetrated on humanity, at a time when Holocaust denial is becoming not o my common, but trendy, fashionable, and common. Just repeating “never again” over and over again does nothing. We need to FIGHT antisemitism wherever it appears. End of story-there is no other way.

History | History

The first Jew to escape Auschwitz helped save 200,000 lives -- but few know his name

Rudolf Vrba should be celebrated for his role in preventing the deportation of many of Budapest's Jews, says UK author Jonathan Freedland in his new book, 'The Escape Artist'

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Has Wolf Blitzer’s father just pulled the rug out from under filmmaker Ken Burns?

Wolf Blitzer's father and the bombing of Auschwitz. Op-ed.

Ken Burns is a total hack. First his woke documentary on Benjamin Franklin, and now, as a typical leftist, a whitewashing of FDR’s Jew hatred, and repulsive behavior during the Holocaust because FDR is a democrat hero.

News | Antisemitism Watch

Auschwitz-Birkenau Site Vandalized With Antisemitic, Holocaust Denial Graffiti

The main gate at the Auschwitz concentration camp. Photo: Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and Museum. Wooden barracks at the Auschwitz II -Birkenau …

History | History

UNPACKED: The Boxer who Fought for his Life at Auschwitz

UNPACKED: The Boxer who Fought for his Life at Auschwitz Salamo Arouch, a young Jewish boxer from Greece, was sent to Auschwitz in 1943. Suddenly finding himself in brutal matches staged to “entertain” the Nazi SS officers, the undefeated Balkan light

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Fourth Expert Resigns From Polish Government’s Auschwitz Council After Appointment of Hardline Nationalist Stirs Controversy

A sign at the Auschwitz death camp ordering “Stop!” in German and Polish. Photo: Reuters/Kacper Pempel. Another expert has resigned …

Auschwitz has been massively mismanaged by the still antisemitic Polish for far too long. That needs to end.

History | History

Can We Really Picture Auschwitz?

As memories of the Holocaust fade, one survivor’s images remain vivid.

At the time, The NY Times did everything possible to deny the Holocaust. This is however a good article.

News | Antisemitism Watch

Google Maps found to be hosting over 150 anti-Semitic reviews of Auschwitz

Guardian report finds comments, most of them anonymous, on Holocaust memorial site; tech giant acknowledges it needs 'to do better'

History | History

New Book Reveals a Gripping True Story From Auschwitz | Jewish & Israel News Algemeiner

The main gate at the Auschwitz concentration camp. Photo: Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and Museum. In his gripping new book, The Boy …

History | History

Auschwitz survivors: First Jews sent to the Nazi concentration camp were teenage girls

As the world marks the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, Edith Friedman Grosman, who was 17 when she arrived at the Nazi concentration camp, tells her harrowing story in a new book

History | History

Why the Bombing Auschwitz Argument Still Matters

The Allies’ refusal to devote sufficient resources to rescue and halt the Nazi murder factory is one more reason why a sovereign State of Israel is necessary.

News | Israel & The Jewish Community

Last Auschwitz survivors speak: 'We haven't won, but we've taught our grandkids'

Heart-wrenching testimonies from survivors living in Israel, as the Jewish state prepares to host world leaders on the 75th anniversary of the death camp's liberation

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Auschwitz Memorial Twitter account minimizes Polish complicity for the Holocaust

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Poland has launched a massive campaign to portray Poles as victims of the Holocaust no less than Jews, and even goes so far as to claim that the Poles were “heroes” of the Holocaust who spent most of the war attempting to rescue Jews. Amazingly, the Auschwitz Museum is complicit in this.

News | Antisemitism Watch

Beyond Offensive- My Letter to the Manufacturer of “Auschwitz Ash” Offensive Crayons – Gina Raphael

December 21, 2019 Ms. Alice Cichon Offensive Crayons, LLC 1820 Avenue M Unit #370 Brooklyn, NY 11230 info@offensivecrayons.com Dear Ms. Cichon, Congratulations on starting a new Company. As someone who has been in  marketing & merchandising for over 30 ye

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Russian figure skater sparks controversy for wearing Holocaust-themed outfit

The International Skating Union (ISU) was forced into an embarrassing climbdown Tuesday after an Auschwitz-themed outfit was nominated for "Best

WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH THESE PEOPLE?

Miscellaneous | Judaism

A Psychotherapist’s Shema in Auschwitz - Vaetchanan

What is it about the Shema Yisroel prayer that has inspired so many through the most trying of times and has provided such meaning and purpose to help us survive even the most despairing circumstances?

Miscellaneous | Jewish Life

Poway Rabbi Leads Jewish Youths in 'Am Yisrael Chai' Chant in Speech at Auschwitz | Jewish & Israel News

Rabbi Yisroel Goldstein, injured in the recent shooting at the Congregation Chabad synagogue in Poway, California, speaks as US President …

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Far Right Protesters Gather at Auschwitz During Annual Camp Liberation Commemoration

Far right ONR (National Radical Camp) activists walk past the “Arbeit Macht Frei” gate at the former Nazi German concentration …

Seventy years later and the Polish government STILL won’t take responsibility for the nation’s antisemitism. Disgusting.

“In another location at the site, far right protesters wrapped in Polish flags, some stamped with the words “Polish Holocaust,” laid flowers and sang the Polish national anthem.”The Jewish nation and Israel is doing everything to change the history of the Polish nation,” said Piotr Rybak of the Polish Independence Movement, who led Sunday’s protest. “Polish patriots cannot allow this.”

Asked by an opposition politician on Twitter how long it would take the government to react to such situations, Interior Minister Joachim Brudzinski wrote: “React to what? To the fact that someone is not in their right mind and blames all the evil in this world and his frustrations on a particular nation?”“If you are trying to blame this government for anti-Semitism in the heads of seriously crazy (I believe) fools, it is indecent and unwise,” he added.

The protest comes at a time of surging antisemitism in parts of Europe and as critics accuse the PiS of trying to build a nationalist sense of grievance among Poles by seeking to minimize Polish complicity in the Holocaust.“

Miscellaneous | Interesting Links

Herman Shine, One of the Few to Escape Auschwitz, Dies at 95 :: WRAL.com

His best friend would not leave him behind.

History | History

Reconstructed Auschwitz prisoner text details ′unimaginable′ suffering | Germany | DW | 09.10.2017

A newly reconstructed document written in 1944 by a Greek Jewish prisoner at Auschwitz tells of misery "the human mind can not imagine." The text was discovered buried in the ground at the Nazi extermination camp.

Politics | Politics

Court convicts Auschwitz guard, 94, as accessory to murder

A 94-year-old former SS sergeant was found guilty Friday of 170,000 counts of accessory to murder and sentenced to five years in prison for serving as an Auschwitz guard, in a verdict that survivors from the Nazi death camp hailed as a long overdue victor

Miscellaneous | Interesting Links

Auschwitz: Drone video of Nazi concentration camp

Drone video shows the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp as it is today - 70 years after it was liberated by Soviet troops.

News | That's News to Me

'Auschwitz book-keeper' Oskar Groening sentenced to four years - BBC News

A German court convicts a 94-year-old former guard at the Nazi death camp at Auschwitz of being an accessory to the murder of at least 300,000 Jews.

Politics | Corruption

Obama Leaves Holocaust Memorial Off His Schedule

Yesterday, President Obama was in India and took the time to toss rose petals on a monument memorializing Mahatma Gandhi. 

This would have been the last chance for a POTUS to attend a memorial at Auschwitz with a significant number of survivors in attendance. Of course that mattered not to Barack who chose a photo-op at the Taj Mahal instead.

Politics | Politics

The White House Needs a Refresher Course on World War II History

Read into this what you will, but President Obama is building an impressive list of gaffes and protocol lapses related to Poland, World War II, and the Holocaust. During his campaign, Obama mixed up which concentration camp his uncle had liberated: it was

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Tales from Auschwitz: survivor stories | World news | The Guardian

Tuesday 27 January is the 70th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi concentration camp at Auschwitz. Six survivors, some of whom will be returning to the site for the last time, tell Kate Connolly their stories

I am continually astonished when I hear people say that we should talk less about the Holocaust. Yes, you can't base your entire identity on it, and the Survivors certainly have not, but considering that this is just one of many similar events that have befallen the Jewish people (may this be the last one), and it is the closest to use in time we have a duty to teach people about it. That is especially true as Holocaust denial becomes more rampant. It is also an important mark of respect to the Survivors who ate still with us. What they endured is unimaginable.

Politics | Politics

On Auschwitz anniversary, leader warns Jews again targets

OSWIECIM, Poland (AP) — Holocaust survivors and world leaders are preparing to mark the 70th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz by the Soviet Red Army, but Russian President Vladimir Putin will not be among those present.