Concentration camp

Deutsche Bahn’s new rail plan cannot be allowed to erase a vital Holocaust memory site - opinion

The officials have proposed a “preferred route” for a new high-speed rail line between Hamburg and Hanover that would run less than a quarter of a mile from the Bergen-Belsen loading ramp.

A recreated train car stands as a memorial at the former loading ramp in Bergen-Belsen, Germany, April 15, 2015.
Anne Frank's friend and step-sister Eva Schloss celebrates her 90th birthday in London.

Eva Schloss, Auschwitz survivor and founder of Anne Frank Trust UK, dies at 96

The entrance of the former German Nazi concentration camp in Dachau near Munich, Germany.

From Auschwitz to Dachau: How a pharmacist became central to Nazi camp medical crimes - study

JOHNNY BOMBINO as Emperor Überall.

Viktor Ullmann’s 'Der Kaiser von Atlantis' as a manifesto against tyranny - review


World's oldest Holocaust survivor, Rose Girone, passed away at age 113

Polish-born Rose managed to get visas for her and her husband to escape Germany to Shanghai in 1939, later settling in Queens, New York.

 Rose Girone

Grapevine February 16, 2025: The importance of aiding others

Movers and shakers in Israeli society.

 RAN GURON, seventh from left, with scholarship recipients.

JD Vance to visit Dachau on Thursday, the latest VP to tour the Nazi camp

Vance will visit Dachau before heading to the nearby Munich Security Conference, an elite national security gathering.

Republican vice presidential nominee J.D. Vance on the day of the debate between Republican presidential nominee and former US President Donald Trump and Democratic presidential nominee and US Vice President Kamala Harris, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. September 10, 2024. REUTER

Russian security bureau declassifies documents on Auschwitz liberation and Nazi crimes

The documents published by the FSB include testimonies, photos, a certificate commemorating a badge earned in the Polish army, as well as a certificate of release from Auschwitz.

The site of the former Nazi German concentration and extermination camp Auschwitz II-Birkenau

Louisville Orchestra remembers its concertmaster with an opera he performed in a concentration camp

Though Kling played in rehearsals for “Der Kaiser von Atlantis,” the opera was never performed in Theresienstadt.

 Teddy Abrams, music director of the Louisville Orchestra, was integral to the decision to stage "Der Kaiser von Atlantis" to mark International Holocaust Remembrance Day.

New project asks Holocaust survivors: What memory do you want the world to remember?

"Given your experience as an Auschwitz survivor, what is one specific thing you want people to remember for generations to come?" the social media campaign asks.

Holocaust survivor Ella Blumenthal, 103 years old of South Africa

Highlights of the Haifa International Film Festival

One advantage for English speakers of seeing a movie at a film festival is that they show films with English titles, unlike the theater chains, which only offer subtitles occasionally.

 ‘THE SEED of the Sacred Fig’

Gene Simmons: I never touched drugs because of my mother’s suffering in the Holocaust

Speaking to The Jerusalem Post during a visit to Israel in 2011, Simmons referred to his mother’s Holocaust experience.

 GENE SIMMONS of KISS attends the 2021 Tribeca Festival screening of ‘Biography: KISStory’ in New York City in 2021.

Forging bonds of faith: A Rabbi's journey with evangelical Christians in Poland - opinion

On an interfaith mission to Poland, a rabbi finds new friendships with evangelical leaders as they confront Holocaust history and explore Jewish life together.

 THE FRONT GATE of Auschwitz carries the infamous phrase: ‘Arbeit macht frei.’ The writer states: ‘Perhaps we as Jews are less alone in our grief than we may fear.’

Germany court upholds conviction of 99-year-old former Nazi concentration camp secretary

German Jewish leaders applauded the decision announced Tuesday by the Federal Court of Justice in Karlsruhe in Germany.

 Irmgard Furchner, a former secretary for the SS commander of the Stutthof concentration camp, arrives with her lawyers during her trial in Itzehoe, Germany, Dec. 6, 2022. German courts require the face of defendants to be obscured in photographs.