By Times of Israel Staff Old movie prop promoting the Nazi death camp as fun holiday destination decried by local Holocaust survivors, Jewish leaders A “satirical” tour bus in the Czech Republic advertising the Nazi death camp Auschwitz as a fun holiday destination has been condemned by Holocaust survivors and local Jewish leaders. The camp’s […]
Companies who kept SS guards safe from the Zyklon B they used at gas chambers now sell to Israel’s Defense Ministry, police, fire department Israel for decades has been purchasing gas masks from the same German suppliers that once supplied protective equipment to Nazi soldiers operating the gas chambers in Auschwitz and other death camps […]
(JTA) — Pope Francis visited the Auschwitz-Birkenau former Nazi death camp in Poland, in what the World Jewish Congress President Ronald Lauder said was an “important signal to the world.” On Friday, The Associated Press reported, the pope prayed in silent contemplation before meeting Holocaust survivors in front of the death wall where the Nazis summarily […]
Mohammed S. Dajani Daoudi is a palestinian professor, who became well known a few years ago when he took students from the palestinian territories to visit Auschwitz-Birkenau. By Aussie Dave (Israellycool) Mohammed S. Dajani Daoudi is an unlikely advocate for peace between Palestinians and Israelis. He trained as a guerrilla with the Palestine Liberation Organization, was banned […]
Prime Minister Trudeau and Ministers Dion and Freeland visited Auschwitz-Birkenau to pay tribute to the millions of victims of the Holocaust. Canadian Holocaust Survivor and past president of the Canadian Jewish Holocaust Survivors and Descendants (CJHSD) Nate Leipciger joined the Prime Minister. “Today, I was deeply moved to visit Auschwitz-Birkenau, where more than 1 million […]
German government wanted to hold on to historical documents, but journalist thought they should be in Yad Vashem BERLIN — Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu brought back original blueprints of the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp to Israel from Germany seven years ago, likely without knowing he was doing something illegal, according to a German journalist. The blueprints […]
(JTA) — A Pennsylvania man who for years traveled the country giving speeches and media interviews about his experiences as a Holocaust survivor acknowledged that he had been lying and apologized. In a letter published Thursday on the LancasterOnline news site, Joseph Hirt, of Lancaster County said he lied not for personal gain but in […]
Right Left With Heels, a surrealistic play by Sebastian Majewski, tracks a pair of high-heeled shoes made from the skin of a Jewish prisoner murdered in Auschwitz. LOS ANGELES: A new play a Polish writer, with an unusual Holocaust theme, is at the center of a dispute between the Polish Consulate in Los Angeles and […]
A disturbing new application was displayed in the “Google Play” store that invites users to “play in Auschwitz” Italian newspaper The Repubblica reported on Sunday. Campo di Auschwitz Online, which the developers said was designed with a goal of enjoyment, was made available on the Android platform and received online reviews of 3.1 stars out […]
Reinhold Hanning found guilty on 170,000 counts of accessory to murder; volunteered for SS at 18; was at camp from 1942-4, claimed he wasn’t involved in killings by David Rising 94-year-old former SS guard at the Auschwitz death camp Reinhold Hanning, arrives at a courtroom in Detmold, Germany, Saturday June 11, 2016. (Bernd Thissen/Pool Photo […]
