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


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.

 THE GATE to Auschwitz, photographed in January 2021, 76 years after the camp’s liberation: There are still countless Jews who say about the Shoah, ‘If this could happen, how can anyone still believe in God?’

What can the Uyghurs learn from Israel?

WORLD AFFAIRS: President of the Uyghur American Association visits Israel and has some interesting observations to share

 Kuzzat Allay visits the Western Wall this week.

The Secretary of Evil: 97-year-old Nazi convicted for role in 10,500 murders

In what may be the last-ever Nazi trial, Irmgard Furchner has been found guilty for crimes committed at Stutthof Concentration Camp.

Irmgard Furchner, a 97-year-old former secretary to the SS commander of the Stutthof concentration camp, is pictured at the beginning of her trial in a courtroom, in Itzehoe, Germany, October 19, 2021.

97-year-old Nazi secretary on trial speaks out for first time

Irmgard Furchner, who played a crucial role in the death of over 11,000 people, has sat in silence since her trial began in October 2021.

 Irmgard Furchner, a 96-year-old former secretary to the SS commander of the Stutthof concentration camp, arrives in a wheelchair as her lawyers Niklas Weber and Wolf Molkentin look on at the beginning of her trial in a courtroom, in Itzehoe, Germany, October 19, 2021.

Holocaust survivor Hanna Pick-Goslar passes away at 93

Goslar and Anne Frank were best friends before the Holocaust separated them.

HANNAH PICK remembers with a sad smile when Anne Frank saw her on their first day at kindergarten in Amsterdam. ‘She turned around and ran into my arms’

Polish foreign ministry summons Israeli ambassador over criticism

Holocaust education trips for Israeli students to Poland had been suspended earlier this year over the fact that armed guards accompanied the students on the trips.

Actor and former California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger visits former Nazi German concentration camp Auschwitz-Birkenau, near Oswiecim, Poland, September 28, 2022.

Documentary ‘Four Winters’ recounts the hell and fury of Jewish partisans who fought the Nazis

Written and directed by Julia Mintz, the film recounts the story of several Jewish partisans: women and men from the ghettos who escaped Nazi roundups to the concentration camps.

 Jewish partisans shown in the documentary "Four Winters."

Serbian president reveals grandfather was murdered in Holocaust - exclusive

Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said he felt as if this part of history is almost buried and not discussed.

 Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic speaks during an interview with Reuters in Belgrade, Serbia August 29, 2022.

On This Day: 79 years since Jews revolted at Nazi's Treblinka death camp

The revolt saw only a few Jews manage to escape the extermination camp, with only 70 surviving until the end of the war. But it crippled the camp in its final months.

Treblinka German death camp in Poland railway sign at Yad Vashem.

Holocaust survivor Rena Quint answers remaining questions - opinion

Rena Quint answered questions 77 years after being found among the dying and liberated in Bergen-Belsen.

 RENA QUINT (C) with a Taglit-Birthright group.