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 Canadian Candidate Admits Not Knowing What Auschwitz Is
A candidate in Canada’s federal elections has apologized for not knowing that Auschwitz was a Nazi death camp. “Well, I didn’t know what Auschwitz was, or I didn’t up until today,” Alex Johnstone, who is running in the Oct. 19 elections for Parliament in southwestern Ontario for the New Democratic Party, told the Hamilton Spectator…
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Fast Forward Second 93-Year-Old Auschwitz Guard Faces Trial
A German court is waiting for medical clearance before trying a 93-year-old former Auschwitz guard on 170,000 counts of accessory to murder. If Reinhold Hanning is determined mentally competent to stand trial, it will be the second trial this year of an ex-Nazi over the age of 90. Anke Grudda, spokeswoman for the Detmold state…
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Fast Forward Auschwitz Removes Controversial Showers as Temperature Dips
Mist sprinklers installed at the site of the former Nazi concentration camp complex Auschwitz-Birkenau that sparked controversy were removed. Administrators of the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum told the Hebrew-language Nana10 website on Wednesday that they were removing the sprinklers, which resemble shower heads, because they were no longer needed following a drop in temperature. Many visitors…
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Opinion Visiting Auschwitz? Enjoy a Cool ‘Mist’ Shower
You thought selfies at Auschwitz were bad? Well, we can top that. Or at least, the caretakers of the Auschwitz concentration camp museum can. Meir Bulka, 48, visited Auschwitz-Birkenau this Sunday and was surprised to see these showers, spraying mist at the overheated visitors. “Showers” placed at Auschwitz entrance http://t.co/VS7s1WcHX5 pic.twitter.com/rzlQJdpksh — Ynetnews (@ynetnews) August…
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News This Baby Was Born in Auschwitz — and Survived
Barbara Puc is a survivor of Auschwitz, yet she has no memory of ever having been there. Sitting in her home, Puc, a sturdy woman with short gray hair and a warm face, warned me before we even sat down, “All I know is what my mother told me.” Now 72 years old, Puc, whose…
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Culture Will a Selfie at Auschwitz Make You Free?
A couple of weeks ago, I stood before a crematorium at Auschwitz-Birkenau and listened to the tour guide talk about the sonderkommandos. The sonderkommandos, he explained quietly, were the prisoners tasked with removing dead corpses from the gas chambers – after the victims had been showered with cyanide and choked to death – and then…
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Fast Forward Auschwitz Bookkeeper Says Only God Can Forgive Him
A former bookkeeper at Auschwitz who is accused of assisting in the mass murder of at least 300,000 people told a German court on Wednesday he could only ask God to forgive him as he was not entitled to ask this of victims of the Holocaust. Oskar Groening, 94, did not kill anyone himself while…
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Fast Forward Greek Lawmaker Photoshops Famed Auschwitz Sign
Jewish groups have criticized a Greek lawmaker who posted a picture of the gates of Auschwitz with a pro-Europe slogan, accusing him of trivializing the Holocaust. Member of Parliament Dimitris Kammenos of the Independent Greeks Party on Wednesday posted a picture on Facebook of the death camp gates with pro-Europe slogan “We stay in Europe”…
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