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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The Schmooze The Summer Polish Jews Were Hunted
Getty Images In the cities, hamlets, and pine-covered forests of Poland, a murderous hunt took place in the summer of 1942. The Germans called it the Judenjagd, the hunt for the Jews. Historian Jan Grabowski documents the deadly dragnet in his book “Hunt for the Jews: Betrayal and Murder in German-Occupied Poland.” Originally published in…
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Fast Forward Auschwitz Foundation Nears $156M Anniversary Goal
In advance of the 70th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, the Auschwitz-Birkenau Foundation announced that it has raised $140 million of its approximately $156 million campaign goal. The total includes $9 million in newly announced donations from six leading philanthropists. The campaign was created in 2009 by the independent foundation to fund a perpetual…
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Fast Forward Vladimir Putin Will Skip Auschwitz Anniversary
Russian President Vladimir Putin will not attend Holocaust commemorations in Poland this month, Interfax news agency quoted Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov as saying on Tuesday. Sources told Reuters on Monday that Putin was unlikely to join world leaders gathering at the site of the Auschwitz death camp because distrust caused by the conflict in Ukraine…
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Fast Forward 1.5 Million Visitors to Auschwitz Set New Record in 2014
More than 1.5 million people visited the former Auschwitz concentration camp in 2014, setting a record. It was the highest attendance ever at the Auschwitz-Birkenau memorial in Poland, according to its museum. “The Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial has become the world’s symbol of the Holocaust and the crimes of World War II,” said Dr. Piotr Cywinski, director…
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Fast Forward ‘Last’ Auschwitz Anniversary Is Reminder of Silence’s Danger
(Reuters) — Next month’s 70th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz death camp is a reminder, at a time when anti-Semitism is on the rise again, of what happens when the world stays silent about persecution, the president of the World Jewish Congress said. Ronald S. Lauder told Reuters in an interview anti-Semitism had reached…
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News 93-Year-Old Auschwitz Guard Faces Charges in 300,000 Murders
A 93-year old man suspected of being a former guard at the Nazi death camp Auschwitz will be tried in the new year, a German court said on Monday. Nearly 70 years after the end of the Holocaust, in which some 6 million Jews as well as Roma, homosexuals, disabled and political opponents to the…
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Fast Forward Grandson of Rudolf Hoess Attends Budapest Holocaust Commemoration
Hungarian Holocaust survivors had a difficult time handling the presence of Rainer Hoess, the grandson of Auschwitz death camp commander Rudolf Hoess, at an event in Budapest. Rainer Hoess was one of the guest speakers at the commemoration, which was one of the closing events of this year’s 70th anniversary of the start of the…
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Fast Forward Mayor of Rome Accompanying High Schoolers on Trip to Auschwitz
Mayor Ignazio Marino of Rome is in Poland leading city high school students on the annual “Memory Journey” Holocaust education trip to Auschwitz and Krakow. Some 144 pupils from 24 high schools in Rome were flown to Poland over the weekend on an Italian Air Force jet. In addition to Marino they were joined by…
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