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 Auschwitz Selfies? No Big Deal, IMHO
Teenagers, selfies, and the Holocaust — you’d be hard-pressed to find anyone over the age of 30 who doesn’t have some thoughts on all three. Last week, though, the world was granted the chance to think about all three at the same time. It was reported in various places that some Jewish teenagers, while in…
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The Schmooze Eric Clapton Headlines Auschwitz Music Festival
Eric Clapton headlined the fifth annual Life Festival in Oswiecim, Poland late this month. Yes, you read that right. Eric Clapton just played Auschwitz. Well, kind of. The Oswiecim Life Festival started in 2010, and was created by Darek Maciborek, a radio DJ, who wanted to change the negative associations brought up by his hometown….
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News A Daughter’s Love for Jewish Dad — and Soccer — Spans Generations
My father and I will watch every game that the United States plays in the World Cup that starts this weekend. We live on opposite sides of the world – he is in Florida and I am in Australia—but today’s video technology will allow us to cheer the team on together. My father’s love for…
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Culture When Auschwitz Was a Jewish Town
Of all the things and places to give an endearing Jewish name, Auschwitz would seem the most unlikely. Oshpitzin — which comes from the Aramaic word for guest, ushpizin, and is the name of a traditional Sukkot prayer that welcomes guests — was how Jews once referred to Oswiecim, the Polish town that would become…
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Fast Forward 10,000 Young Jews Mark Holocaust Remembrance Day at Auschwitz
Some 10,000 young Jews from around the world participated in the 23rd March of the Living at Auschwitz. The march took place on Monday, Holocaust Remembrance Day, at the former German Nazi concentration and extermination camp. A large group of Polish youth also marched from the gate bearing the “Arbeit macht frei” sign — meaning…
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Culture Chasing Dr. Aribert Heim, the ‘Butcher of Mauthausen’
● The Eternal Nazi: From Mauthausen to Cairo, the Relentless Pursuit of SS Doctor Aribert Heim By Nicholas Kulish and Souad Mekhennet Doubleday, 250 pages, $27.95 In “The Eternal Nazi,” journalists Nicholas Kulish and Souad Mekhennet tell the gripping story of the decades-long pursuit of Nazi doctor Aribert Heim and, in the process, offer a…
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Opinion When Jesus Died at Auschwitz
YouTube The most tasteless YouTube video ever has just been released – by our friends at Jews for Jesus. Entitled “That Jew Died for You,” it is – I am not making any of this up – a three-minute video showing Jesus Christ among a group of Jews arriving at Auschwitz. And you thought the…
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Culture Doomed Jewish Freedom Fighter’s Journey From Tel Aviv to Auschwitz
(Haaretz) — For decades, no one took an interest in the seven letters, handwritten in Polish and kept in the home of Priva and Jacob Bendet. They had been sent in the 1930s to Priva, at her home in Tel Aviv, by her sister Lusia, from Warsaw and from Paris. “One letter led to the…
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