Auschwitz

A Ten Year Old's Witness to the Liberation of Auschwitz

by Bernice Lerner

Jerzy (George) Ogurek had beaten the odds to survive in Auschwitz for three months when the Red Army arrived to liberate the camp. 50 years later, none of his colleagues at Boston University knew of his ordeal.

For Child Survivors of Auschwitz, "Who Am I" was the Most Difficult Question

by Alwin Meyer

For child survivors of Auschwitz, efforts to reunite them with families after forced separation in the camp often proved to be an ongoing source of pain and confusion.

Should Rep. Lauren Boebert Visit Auschwitz after her Comparison of COVID Mandates to the Holocaust?

"The Holocaust used to be out of bounds in political discourse because its enormity shocked the world—at least the free world. The original enforcer of this norm was conscience."

Seventy-Five Years After Auschwitz, Anti-Semitism Is on the Rise

by Walter Reich

You can manage a chronic disease, treat it, or prevent its complications—but you can rarely cure it.

The first transport of Jews to Auschwitz was 997 teenage girls. Few survived.

Though Auschwitz was liberated on Jan. 27, 1945, most of the surviving girls weren’t there to see it.

75 Years After Auschwitz Liberation, Worry That ‘Never Again’ Is Not Assured

Amid a surge of anti-Semitism and a rise in dehumanizing political rhetoric, there is fear that the horrific lessons of the death camp are being lost.

The Road to Auschwitz Wasn't Paved With Indifference

by Rivka Weinberg

We don’t have to be ‘upstanders’ to avoid genocides. We just have to make sure not to help them along.

A Holocaust Survivor Tells His Remarkable True Story of Courage and Survival at Auschwitz

by Max Eisen

"Once I put on these striped prisoner’s clothes, I felt like I was no longer a human being, only a number."

An Improbable Relic of Auschwitz: a Shofar That Defied the Nazis

The daughter of a Holocaust survivor has brought forward a ram’s horn trumpet and her father’s account of the power of belief amid death.

Last Polish Inmate From 1940 Transport to Auschwitz Dies

The Germans caught Albin in 1940 as he fled occupied Poland to join Polish armed forces abroad.

Why Auschwitz Plays Such a Central Role in Holocaust Remembrance

by Olivia B. Waxman

Though it was just one of the half-dozen Nazi camps that scholars identify as “killing centers,” there’s a reason Auschwitz has become the focus of the history of the Holocaust.

The Horrors of Auschwitz at a Museum in New York

“This exhibit reminds them, and it reminds all of us, where anti-Semitism ultimately leads."

Poland's Holocaust law triggers tide of abuse against Auschwitz museum

Staff say they have suffered a campaign of disinformation and hate from Polish nationalists.

Poll: Most Americans believe Holocaust could happen again

Nearly half are unable to name a single ghetto or concentration camp, and 4 in 10 are unsure what Auschwitz was.

Israel and Poland try to tamp down tensions after Poland's 'death camp' law sparks Israeli outrage

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki spoke by phone Sunday and agreed to open a dialogue to avoid further diplomatic fallout following Poland’s initial approval of a law making it a criminal offense to mention Polish complicity in crimes committed during the Holocaust.

Court rules "Bookkeeper of Auschwitz," 96, must go to jail

Germany’s constitutional court has ruled that a 96-year-old German must go to jail over his role in mass murders committed at the Nazi death camp at Auschwitz during World War Two, refusing to overturn a lower court ruling.

Why Did Israel Let Mengele Go?

by Ronen Bergman

It had other priorities for Mossad, the short-handed agency.

Auschwitz Artifacts to Go on Tour, Very Carefully

More than 72 years after the liberation of Auschwitz, the first traveling exhibition about the Nazi death camp will begin a journey later this year to 14 cities across Europe and North America, taking heartbreaking artifacts to multitudes who have never seen such horror up close.

Did an Israeli student steal Auschwitz artifacts for her art exhibit?

Her school, Beit Berl College, first condemned the apparent theft, then backtracked after she said collected the items from outside the camp grounds.

“WOW, Auschwitz Had a Pharmacist?!”

by Patricia Posner

An interview with Patricia Posner, author of “The Pharmacist of Auschwitz: The Untold Story.”