” A detail of a toy-sized diamond-studded train by Danish artist Marco Evaristti, part of a sculpture commemorating the horrors of the Auschwitz Nazi death camp, in Copenhagen, Wednesday, Jan. 27, 2010. Evaristti, a Chilean-born Buddhist convert with Jewish parents, said parts of the 5.1-pound (2.3-kilogram) sculpture were built with enamel and gold fillings from […]
Experience the amazing true story of Dina Gottliebova Babbitt, an artist who survived two years at Auschwitz by painting portraits for the infamous Dr. Josef Mengele. This faithful adaptation of the six-page comic created by the David S. Wyman Institute For Holocaust Studies combines illustrations by Neal Adams, motion graphics, and music to bring the […]
“BERLIN - AUGUST 27: Original construction plans of the Auschwitz and Auschwitz-Birkenau death camps lie on a table shortly before the arrival of Israeli Prime Minister Benajmin Netanyahu at the Axel Springer publishing house on August 27, 2009 in Berlin, Germany. Bild newspaper head Kai Diekmann presented the plans as a gift for the Yad […]
“he deputy head of the Auschwitz Museum’s research department, Dr. Jacek Lachendro, told SPIEGEL TV that part (1.95 tons) of the hair still exhibited in Auschwitz today was found in a factory in Kietrz at the end of World War II. The original statements given about the site where the hair was found showed the […]
PARIS (CNN)– France bears responsibility for deporting Jews to their deaths in concentration camps during World War II, the country’s highest court ruled Monday.
” France’s role in the deportation of its Jews was a taboo subject for decades after the war. The trial of Maurice Papon, a civil servant in the collaborationist Vichy government, for […]
A Brooklyn man who survived both world wars, the Auschwitz gas chambers and the deaths of four wives perished at age 100 when he was trapped in a fire in his Williamsburg home. David Weiss had seen the worst of the world but remained deeply faithful. He went to synagogue every day, including the morning […]
Concentration camp survivors walk out of the main gate with the sign “Arbeit macht frei” (work will set you free) at the Auschwitz museum, near the former death camp Auschwitz-Birkenau in Oswiecim, January 27, 2009 marking the 64th anniversary of its liberation by Soviet troops and to remember the victims of the Holocaust. DayLife.com
“An activist in an Austrian organization commemorating the Holocaust, who traveled last month with a group of 16-year-olds from his country to visit the Auschwitz Nazi death camp in Poland, found to his horror that the youngsters were planning to vote for the extreme right wing political parties in the Austrian elections. ” more@haAretz.com
Upd “N.Y. football teams end talks with company with Nazi ties over naming rights” The Giants and the Jets face moral and public-relations questions as they negotiate the possible sale of the naming rights to their new stadium with Allianz, a Munich-based insurer and financial services company with disturbing connections to Nazi Germany. Allianz insured facilities […]
“The financial needs are urgent,” museum spokesman Jaroslaw Mensfelt told The Associated Press by telephone. “The ruins of the gas chambers and the barracks are disappearing due to acid rain, frost, wind and subsoil waters.” The management of the Auschwitz death camp museum said Wednesday that it needs millions of euros to maintain the vast […]
photo:”A group of rabbis places stones on top of the memorial monument in Jedwabne.”
By Siobhán Dowling in Berlin
Prosecutors in Poland are considering charging the US historian Jan Tomasz Gross with slandering the Polish nation following the publication of his book on anti-Semitism in the country after World War II. The book has provoked a storm […]
Knesset decrees that student delegations to concentration camps will only eat kosher food.
“One enraged mother said Tuesday: “This is an outrage. If the state decided on kosher meals, let them fund them.” Yet another parent explained that her son’s school had informed her that the cost of the Poland mission had gone up from $1,100 […]
