TEL AVIV, Israel — Shortly after the Nazi invasion of what was then Hungary in May 1944, Renee Ganz's family and most of the 25,000 Jews in the city of Oradea were forced into cattle cars and ...
Birkenau, Ginette Kolinka developed a stock answer to shut down questioners who’d ask about her experiences of the Nazi death ...
They reached the camp without knowing its name. This detail disrupts the clean arc we prefer--the idea that Auschwitz waited, labeled and understood, for history to arrive and recognize it. The Soviet ...
On May 28, 1944, Hungarian accountant Erno Spiegel, 29, his twin sister, Magda, and their family arrived on a Jewish transport train at the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp in Nazi-occupied ...
This guest essay reflects the views of Alexa Roth, of Stony Brook, a senior at Ward Melville High School and a CTeen leader at Village Chabad Stony Brook. Before going to Auschwitz, history felt ...
On Jan. 27, 1945, Soviet soldiers who had survived years of fierce combat against German forces entered a sprawling complex of barracks and barbed wire in southern Poland known as Auschwitz. What they ...
Discover the story of Anita Lasker-Wallfisch, a cellist who created music during the Holocaust. Discover the story of cellist Anita Lasker-Wallfisch, who, alongside fellow prisoners, created music ...
University of Southampton provides funding as a member of The Conversation UK. At this year’s Cannes Film Festival, the Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and Museum announced the launch of a new digital ...