Concentration camp

Pro-Palestinian rally at Buchenwald memorial shut down by German authorities

The rally was slated for April 12, marking the 81st anniversary of Buchenwald’s liberation by US troops. But the city of Weimar said on Monday it would ban the event on the memorial grounds.

A visitor stands in front of a watchtower behind a fence on the grounds of the former Nazi concentration camp Buchenwald near Weimar
A portrait of Friedrich Torberg, Jan. 1, 1970.

A lost novel from 1943 that predicted the Holocaust has been recovered

Pro-Palestinian demonstrators wear keffiyeh at a protest to condemn the interception of the vessels of the Global Sumud Flotilla, in Rome, Italy, October 1, 2025.

Anti-Zionist group plans keffiyeh protest amid Buchenwald camp's ban on pro-Palestinian symbols

A recreated train car stands as a memorial at the former loading ramp in Bergen-Belsen, Germany, April 15, 2015.

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


In this Holocaust film, a Jewish inmate makes up a language to survive

"Persian Lessons" is based on a short story by the screenwriter Wolfgang Kohlhaase, who specializes in tragicomedies.

The site of the former Nazi German concentration and extermination camp Auschwitz is pictured during the ceremonies marking the 75th anniversary of the liberation of the camp and International Holocaust Victims Remembrance Day, in Brzezinka near Oswiecim, Poland, January 27, 2020.

Locals ski across graves at Buchenwald concentration camp

Memorial staff have increased security and called for locals to show respect and refrain from winter sports at the site of the camp.

A visitor stands in front of a watchtower behind a fence on the grounds of the former Nazi concentration camp Buchenwald near Weimar

Former Nazi concentration camp guard removal order from the US upheld

Friedrich Karl Berger, a Tennessee resident, served as an armed guard in the Neuengamme prisoners' concentration camp during the winter of 1945.

Former hammer-workshop of the German concentration camp Neuengamme.

Belarus: Detainees piled in 'concentration camp' as jails run out of room

A curfew was reportedly imposed on the country on Tuesday and both mobile and internet connections were shut down to suppress the protests.

Clashes between law enforcement officers and opposition supporters after presidential election in Minsk

100-year-old survived six concentration camps, says Mengele 'saved' him

David Scharf: From Antwerp to Jerusalem, 2017

BNEI AKIVA members present David Scharf with a plant, honoring him on Yom Haatzmaut.

German court convicts 93-year-old man for Nazi crimes

Dey has admitted that he served at the camp and had knowledge of what took place, but has denied any complicity in the deaths of inmates - claiming that he never bought into the Nazi ideology.

'Death Gate' at Stutthof Concentration Camp

Pope: Libyan migrant centers are like concentration camps

"Yes, there is a war (in Libya) and we know that is ugly but you cannot imagine the hell that people live there in those lagers of detention," he said.

Pope Francis holds weekly general audience at the Vatican, May 15, 2019.

China’s increasingly oppressive actions show dangerous global trend

THERE ARE widespread reports coming out of China of forced labor, torture, beatings, forced use of medications and involuntary sterilizations, among and other egregious human rights abuses.

DEMONSTRATORS RUN from riot police shooting pepper-spray pellets during a protest in Hong Kong on June 9.

Remembering the rabbi of Buchenwald

The date was April 11, 1945, and what Rabbi Schacter was about to experience would change his life forever.

A visitor stands in front of a watchtower behind a fence on the grounds of the former Nazi concentration camp Buchenwald near Weimar

Remembering Jasenovac: the lesser recognized concentration camp

While the numbers are not as high as Auschwitz or Treblinka, Jasenovac was notorious for its cruelty and the high number of young children who were victims.

Birkenau concentration camp in Poland in the snow