Auschwitz
The speech Jonathan Glazer could have given
By Jeffrey Salkin — March 15, 2024
(RNS) — What would it look like if Jewish celebrities stood up for Judaism and the Jewish people? Maybe this.
How is this Holocaust movie different from other Holocaust movies?
By Jeffrey Salkin — February 14, 2024
(RNS) — ‘The Zone of Interest,’ a nominee for best picture, makes the propensity for evil quite plain — and relevant.
New memoir by Anne Frank’s girlhood friend reveals ‘life outside the attic’
By Michele Chabin — June 14, 2023
JERUSALEM (RNS) — 'My Friend Anne Frank,' by Hannah Pick-Goslar, details the girls' friendship before the Holocaust and their brief reunion inside a Nazi concentration camp.
Auschwitz museum begins emotional work of conserving 8,000 shoes of murdered children
By Vanessa Gera — May 22, 2023
OSWIECIM, Poland (AP) — The Germans destroyed evidence of their atrocities at Treblinka and other camps, but they failed to do so entirely at the enormous site of Auschwitz.
Why there is no ice cream at Auschwitz
By Jeffrey Salkin — May 16, 2023
Because some places are holy. The survival of our culture depends on our ability to recognize that.
New technology allows Holocaust survivors to tell their stories for all time
By Yonat Shimron — January 26, 2023
(RNS) — The technology is providing a way for future generations to interact with a hologram-style likenesses of Holocaust survivors.
16 objects from Germany tell story of Holocaust in new ways
By Kirsten Grieshaber — January 24, 2023
BERLIN (AP) — The exhibition Sixteen Objects marks the 70th anniversary of the Yad Vashem memorial, bringing back to Germany an array of items Jews took with them when they fled the Nazis.
Unknown Holocaust photos – found in attics and archives – are helping researchers recover lost stories and providing a tool against denial
By Wolf Gruner — September 23, 2022
(The Conversation) — Holocaust scholars long relied on documents and survivor testimonies to help reconstruct the history of that tragic event. Now, they’re turning to wordless witnesses to learn more: pictures.
Rabbi James Rudin’s memoir recounts the interfaith movement’s hits and misses
By Yonat Shimron — May 30, 2022
(RNS) — In the book, 'The People in the Room: Rabbis, Nuns, Pastors, Popes, and Presidents,' Rudin writes about his favorite collaborators, the challenges of cultivating pluralism and the future of interfaith relations.
Tennessee school board bans acclaimed Holocaust graphic novel, ‘Maus’
By Yonat Shimron — January 27, 2022
(RNS) — The move comes as school boards in politically conservative districts across the nation are reexamining their curriculums.
Anger as French protesters compare vaccines to Nazi horrors
By Angela Charlton and Constantin Gouvy — July 20, 2021
PARIS (AP) — “I wore the star, I know what that is, I still have it in my flesh,” Holocaust survivor Joseph Szwarc said Sunday.
Pope Francis kisses numbered tattoo of Nazi death camp survivor
By Claire Giangravé — May 26, 2021
VATICAN CITY (RNS) — The woman, who survived Auschwitz, was in Italy to attend an event organized for the documentary based on her life, 'The Child Who Didn’t Know How to Hate.'
Auschwitz at 75: From sorrow to song
By Joshua Hammerman — January 27, 2020
(RNS) — As we commemorate the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, the time has come to turn our sorrow into song — in a sense, to embrace Auschwitz.
Auschwitz survivors pay homage as world remembers Holocaust
By Vanessa Gera — January 27, 2019
WARSAW, Poland (AP) — The world marked International Holocaust Remembrance Day on Sunday amid a revival of hate-inspired violence and signs that younger generations know less and less about the genocide of Jews, Roma and others by Nazi Germany during World War II.
At Auschwitz, thousands join the March of the Living to honor the dead
By Lauren Markoe — April 13, 2018
OSWIECIM, Poland (RNS) — This year a record 12,000 youths and adults from nearly 50 countries — one third of them non-Jews — took part in the march.
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