Auschwitz

I was there

On the 10th Anniversary of Elie Wiesel’s Passing, Tara Strong reflects on the March of the Living moment that transformed his silence into her lifelong voice.

Elie Wiesel at the 1990 March of the Living
Simcha Applebaum serving as deputy commander within the 188th Brigade.

Holocaust survivor, Yom Kippur War hero Colonel Simcha Applebaum dies at 99

Declassified documents about Nazi doctor Josef Mengele, who fled to Argentina after World War II.

Switzerland to release sealed files on Nazi doctor Josef Mengele

Clinical psychologist, professor and author Edith Eger poses during an interview with AFP on May 7, 2019, in Lausanne.

Renowned psychologist and Auschwitz survivor Edith Eger dies at 98


Grapevine January 31, 2025: The long road to freedom

Movers and shakers in Israeli society.

 HOLOCAUST SURVIVORS (from left to right): George Shefi, 93, Walter Bingham, 101, and Paul Alexander, 89, who came to the UK on the kindertransport are pictured with relatives at the residence of the British ambassador to Israel.

Defaced Auschwitz survivor mural finds new home at Rome’s Shoah Museum

After multiple acts of vandalism, a mural of Italian Auschwitz survivors has been preserved by Rome’s Shoah Museum.

 The mural stands in the Jewish ghetto of Rome, January 30, 2025.

Holocaust survivor to return German award over far-right role in parliamentary vote

The AfD, which is under state surveillance on suspicion of being right-wing extremist, has come under fire in the past for criticizing Germany's culture of remembrance around the Holocaust.

 Maximilian Krah, Alternative for Germany (AfD) party member and member of the European Parliament of the Identity and Democracy (ID) group, speaks during the European election assembly 2023 of the Alternative for Germany (AfD) in Magdeburg, Germany, July 29, 2023.

Holocaust survivors like me have not only endured but thrived - opinion

The Nazis tried to erase us, but we are still here. And we will continue to be here – building, thriving, and lighting the way for future generations.

 American Jewish World War II veterans Don Golde (right), Cy Mermelstein (left), and Shep Waldman (center) stand next to the barbed wire fence of the concentration camp at the 62nd memorial of the liberation in Dachau on May 13, 2007.

‘We are united’: NYC Jewish, Muslim community members commemorate Auschwitz liberation

“The memory of the Holocaust reminds us that the seeds of hatred must be confronted wherever they appear,” CAM Chief Government Affairs Officer Lisa Katz said.

 Members of New York City’s Jewish and Muslim communities came together on Wednesday for an interfaith forum commemorating the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp’s 80th anniversary.

The only Jew in Oświęcim, Poland, can see Auschwitz from her bedroom window

Weisz-Gut works at the local Jewish museum, which aims to draw attention to the town’s once-thriving pre-Holocaust Jewish community.

 PRISONERS OF the Auschwitz concentration camp after their liberation by the Red Army in January 1945.

Survivors cry ‘never again’ at Auschwitz’s 80th liberation anniversary

‘I thought that to be a Jewish child means you have to die,’ Tova Friedman tells world leaders

 Holocaust survivor Leon Weintraub

Auschwitz through Jewish eyes: Lessons and reflections on memory

Reporters Notebook | Auschwitz through the eyes of Jews eight decades later.

  A visitor wearing the Israeli flag facing the execution wall in the death camp.

WATCH: Hostage families attend memorial at Auschwitz

"It's very hard because ... what's happened in 7th October is feeling like another Holocaust or pogrom in the kibbutz Nir Oz."

 Auschwitz

PMO unveils new database for Eichmann Trial documents

Eichmann was in charge of organizing the “Final Solution” to exterminate Jews in the Holocaust, and was hanged in Israel on June 1, 1962, after being convicted of committing crimes against humanity.

 A thin faced Adolf Eichmann listens to the reading of a 15 count indictment, accusing him of the murder of millions of Jews during World War II, as a guard stands beside him. The reading of the charges at the trial's opening took an hour and 15 minutes.