This is the Forward’s coverage of Auschwitz-Birkenau, a concentration and extermination camp in Poland run by the Nazis during the Holocaust.
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Fast Forward Israeli Student’s Art Project Contains Relics Taken From Auschwitz
JERUSALEM (JTA) — The final project of an Israeli art student who said she used artifacts she removed from Auschwitz will go on display after she clarified that they came from outside the former Nazi camp. Beit Berl College announced late last week following a disciplinary hearing with student Rotem Bides, the granddaughter of Holocaust survivors,…
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Fast Forward Israeli Student Faces Charges For Stealing Auschwitz Artifacts For College Art Project
An Israeli art student is in hot water after she admitted stealing artifacts from Auschwitz for a senior art project. Rotem Bides, 27, a student at Beit Berl College in Kfar Saba, told the Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper that she stole the objects, including glass shards and soup bowls, in the course of six trips to…
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Fast Forward Survivors’ Granddaughter Defends Snatching Auschwitz Relics: ‘Something I Had To Do’
JERUSALEM (JTA) — The Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and Museum located on the site of the former Nazi camp said it will file a complaint with the Polish prosecutor against an Israeli woman who removed relics from site. Rotem Bides, 27, an art student at the Beit Berl College, visited the Auschwitz site six times and removed…
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Fast Forward Did Travel Agents Fix Prices For Trips To Polish Holocaust Memorial Sites?
Fourteen Israeli travel agents are suspected of colluding to fix prices on youth trips to Holocaust memorial sites in Poland, and may face prosecution. According to the Times of Israel, the charges seem to be that “the four companies agreed not to compete against one another and made false presentations to clients to create the…
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Fast Forward Congressman Sorry For Auschwitz Selfie Video
WASHINGTON (JTA) — A Louisiana congressman removed and apologized for a video he filmed at Auschwitz likening the threats posed to Jews during the Holocaust to those facing the United States today. “I filmed the Auschwitz message with great humility,” Rep. Clay Higgins, a Republican, said Wednesday in a statement sent to JTA by his…
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Fast Forward Who Actually Was Allowed To Film At Auschwitz? Spoiler Alert: Not Spielberg.
After a Louisiana congressman was condemned by the Auschwitz Memorial and Museum for filming at the former concentration camp, the obvious question is when is it okay to film at the historic site. Answer: almost never. Steven Spielberg was denied permission to shoot on the site when he filmed “Schindler’s List,” so instead his crew…
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Fast Forward Auschwitz Gas Chamber Video Earns Rebuke For Louisiana Lawmaker
A Louisiana congressman is under fire after filming a five-minute video in and around a gas chamber at Auschwitz in he which he discussed the Holocaust and the need for America to maintain a strong national defense. “The world’s a smaller place now than it was in World War II. The United States is more…
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Fast Forward At 102, Epic Novelist Herman Wouk Looks Back On A Life Well Lived
For Herman Wouk, who turned 102 in May, the “main task” of his life has been using his novels to teach readers about history. “To, so far as I could, fix down in literature what happened in World War II and the Holocaust,” he told CBS Sunday Morning. “That was my main task.” Wouk, who…
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