Dark tourism: Nine eye-opening locations with tragic histories
Amelia Neath looks at some of the dark places people are drawn to where tragedies have occurred, such as Chernobyl, Hiroshima and the killing fields in Cambodia ...
Auschwitz commander's home open to the public, converted into center for Holocaust history
The house, until this year, had always been in private hands. A U.S.-based group, the "Counter Extremism Project," has ...
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Newly found letter shows Martin Buber’s concern over the fate of Polish Jews in 1945
“The remnants of our people in Poland, a land that for centuries was the heart of world Jewry, cry out to us from countless places,” reads the document, originally written in Hebrew.
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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau meets with President of Poland Andrzej Duda
Yesterday, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau met with the President of Poland, Andrzej Duda, on the margins of a commemorative event to mark 80 years since the liberation of the Auschwitz Birkenau German ...
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The only Jew in Oświęcim, Poland, can see Auschwitz from her bedroom window
(photo credit: Wikimedia Commons) A parade of dignitaries and dozens of Holocaust survivors came to Oświęcim on Monday to pay tribute to the 1 million Jews who died there. Some of them ...
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The only Jew in Oświęcim, Poland, can see Auschwitz from her bedroom window
Gut's grandmother survived Auschwitz. In 2023, Weisz-Gut moved to the town where the concentration camp is located.
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Survivors at centre of ceremony to mark Auschwitz 80th anniversary
On Jan. 27, 1945, Soviet troops liberated the Nazi extermination camp Auschwitz-Birkenau, located in modern-day Oświęcim, Poland. The Nazis had murdered more than 1 million people there ...
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Holocaust survivors share their experiences on the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz
Holocaust survivors place lit candles at the Auschwitz-Birkenau former Nazi German concentration and extermination camp, during a ceremony marking the 80th anniversary of its liberation, in ...
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King Charles pledges to remember Holocaust evils during emotional Auschwitz visit
King Charles made a solemn promise that “evils of the past” will never be forgotten as he stood shoulder-to-shoulder with Holocaust survivors. On a day the world stopped to honour six million ...
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Holocaust survivors gather for what may be the final time at 80th anniversary of Auschwitz’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 ...
Auschwitz survivors and world leaders mark 80 years since Nazi death camp’s liberation
Inside the Auschwitz, Soviet soldiers liberated roughly 7,000 prisoners who had been brutalized by a Nazi regime hell-bent on exterminating the Jewish people.
Auschwitz memorial holds observances on the 80th anniversary of the death camp's liberation
Monday's ceremony is widely being treated as the last major observance that any notable number of survivors will be able to ...