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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Film & TV How (and why) did a Bollywood movie make Auschwitz into a lesson on romance?
A new Indian movie takes a tour of the Holocaust sites for unusual reasons
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Film & TV Why a gripping new movie about the aftermath of a terrorist attack is personal for its director
After her brother survived 2015 Bataclan concert hall massacre, Alice Winocour wanted to tell a story of resilience and survival
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Film & TV Inspired by his grandparents’ tragic Holocaust story, a director imbues his latest hit film with passion and joy
Cédric Klapisch's 'Rise' is the antithesis of Darren Aronofsky's 'Black Swan'
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Fast Forward Ice cream truck outside Auschwitz provokes criticism
A spokesman for the museum said the truck, which is just outside of the institution’s protected zone, is an example of “aesthetic tastelessness” and “disrespect”
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News ‘I was sick to my heart’: Holocaust survivor, 94, returns to the Auschwitz cell block where he spent years of his childhood
No survivor had ever before returned to Cell Block 8
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Culture The ‘grown-up Anne Frank’ remains little known — and there’s a reason for that
Etty Hillesum, who died in Auschwitz in 1943, wrote frankly about her inner life and her love affairs
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Fast Forward Emhoff condemns synagogue attack while visiting Holocaust sites in Poland
‘What we are seeing today, we cannot have history repeat itself’
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Opinion We’re visiting Auschwitz because the fight against antisemitism didn’t end with liberation
Second gentleman Doug Emhoff and U.S. antisemitism monitor Deborah Lipstadt write from Poland
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