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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Opinion How Auschwitz Can Be Both a Memorial and a Center for Education
How should we define the authentic remains of the German Nazi concentration and extermination camp Auschwitz-Birkenau, which today are protected and preserved by the Auschwitz Memorial? Should we define it as: 150 buildings, about 300 ruins, including those of five gas chambers and four crematoria in Birkenau that are especially important to the history of…
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Fast Forward Auschwitz Museum Appeals for SS Staff Documents
WARSAW, Poland (JTA) — The director of Auschwitz –Birkenau Museum has appealed to Germans and Austrians to donate documents, photographs, personal letters, or any other materials related to the SS staff of the camp. “Without a comprehensive analysis and understanding of the motivation and mentality of the perpetrators, our efforts to wisely counsel future generations…
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News Meet the Man Who Tweets From Auschwitz — the Museum, That Is
(JTA) — Long before he moved here to become the spokesman for the Auschwitz museum and lead its social media effort, Pawel Sawicki’s life was intricately connected to this sleepy town near Krakow. A Warsaw-area journalist for Polish Radio 2, Sawicki used to visit Oswiecim as a boy on holidays to stay with his grandparents…
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Fast Forward Record 2.05M People Visit Auschwitz in 2016
WARSAW, Poland (JTA) – More than 2 million people from all over the world visited the Auschwitz Museum in 2016. The 2,053,000 visitors is a record number in the history of the Museum, which this year will mark the 70th anniversary of its creation, the museum said in a statement on its website. The top…
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Fast Forward Greek Game Firm Closes Auschwitz ‘Escape Room’ Following Complaints
(JTA) — An entertainment company in Greece canceled a game in which players use clues to escape from a room themed around the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp. The Rubicon agency, which is located in the northern Athens suburb of Galatsi, in recent weeks advertised the Auschwitz “escape room” on social media. Jews and non-Jews complained it…
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Fast Forward TV Station Ordered To Apologize for Calling Nazi Camps ‘Polish’
(JTA) — A German public broadcasting station must apologize to a survivor of Auschwitz for calling the Nazi death camps “Polish death camps.” An appeals court in Krakow, Poland, announced the ruling on Thursday. Ninety-five year old Polish Holocaust survivor Karol Tendera filed the lawsuit against the ZDF broadcaster over a 2013 promotional trailer for a…
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Fast Forward Was Auschwitz an ‘Architectural Achievement’ of Bauhaus Movement?
— A French arts museum defined the death camp Auschwitz as “an architectural achievement of the Bauhaus movement.” The “Spirit of the Bauhaus,” which opened in October at the Museum of Decorative Arts, includes SS officer Fritz Ertl’s designs for the extermination camp among the major achievements of the modernist art movement and school active…
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Fast Forward 95-Year-Old Auschwitz Guard Who Grabbed Jews’ Valuables Must Serve Prison Term
— Germany’s highest federal court upheld the conviction of a 95-year-old former Auschwitz guard for being an accessory to murder. Former SS member Oskar Groening was sentenced in July 2015 to four years in prison for his role in the murder of 300,000 Hungarian Jews in Auschwitz. Germany’s Federal Court of Justice upheld the conviction and…
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