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 Jeb Bush Makes Unannounced Visit to Auschwitz
Jeb Bush made an unannounced visit to Auschwitz during a European tour. The former Florida governor, who is visiting Germany, Poland and Estonia ahead of his expected formal announcement next week of his run for the Republican presidential nomination, visited the former Nazi concentration camp on Wednesday, Bloomberg News reported. Bush, who toured the site…
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Fast Forward Auschwitz Guide Unleashes Anti-Israel Diatribe
Belgian anti-racism groups condemned a public broadcaster’s airing of a video showing a guide at Auschwitz telling visiting youths that she is pro-Palestinian and anti-Semitic because of Israel. The video was aired by the Flemish VRT network on May 8 as part of the program Terzake. It was about a trip organized by the “Trein…
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Opinion If a Holocaust Survivor Can Forgive a 93-Year-Old Nazi, Should I?
More than half a century after the Holocaust, is it right — or even possible — to forgive? As the granddaughter of Holocaust survivors and refugees, I find myself asking this question as I read about the recent trial of Oskar Gröning — aka “the accountant of Auschwitz” — a man who cannot easily be…
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Fast Forward Holocaust Survivor Sparks Anger by Embracing Auschwitz Accountant
A Holocaust survivor who publicly forgave and embraced a 93-year-old former Nazi officer on trial has angered plaintiffs in the case after saying the government should stop the prosecution. Eva Mozes Kor, who had been one of 50 Auschwitz survivors bringing charges against Oskar Groening, a concentration camp guard who has been described as the…
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Fast Forward Wladislaw Bartoszewski, Righteous Polish Official Who Survived Auschwitz, Dies
Former Polish Foreign Minister Wladyslaw Bartoszewski, a former prisoner of Auschwitz who was named a Righteous Among the Nations, has died. Bartoszewski, who was also a social activist, journalist and historian, died on April 24 at the age of 93. Bartoszewski in 1940 was sent to Auschwitz due to his social activism. He was released…
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Fast Forward Auschwitz Bookkeeper Admits ‘Moral Guilt’ in Trial for 300,000 Murders
(Reuters) — A 93-year-old former bookkeeper at Auschwitz who is accused of being an accessory to mass murder told a German court that he felt morally guilty for his work at the Nazi death camp, describing in detail the grisly killings he had witnessed there. Oskar Groening, in what could be one of the last…
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Fast Forward Thousands Join March of Living at Auschwitz
Thousands of young people from at least 45 countries participated in the March of the Living in Poland at the Auschwitz-Birkenau complex of concentration camps. The 27th International March of the Living took place Thursday on Yom Hashoah, or Holocaust Remembrance Day. Each country’s delegation was accompanied by a survivor to tell his or her…
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Fast Forward Blacksmith Rebuilds Infamous Dachau ‘Arbeit Macht Frei’ Gate
(Reuters) — A German blacksmith who painstakingly rebuilt an iron gate at the Dachau concentration camp bearing the notorious “Arbeit macht frei” (work sets you free) slogan said on Thursday he hoped no one would notice his work was a replica. Michael Poitner said he was honored to win the contract to reconstruct the 1.87…
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