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 Senior Saudi leader and Muslim religious leaders visit Auschwitz
(JTA) — A senior Muslim leader from Saudi Arabia visited Auschwitz with a delegation from the American Jewish Committee. Mohammed al-Issa, the secretary-general of the Mecca-based Muslim World League and a former Saudi justice minister, joined a delegation of Muslim religious leaders from several countries at the site of the former Nazi camp on Thursday,…
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News On liberation anniversary, Auschwitz survivors in their own words and photos
Angela Orosz Richt is nervous about her upcoming trip to Auschwitz to commemorate the 75th anniversary of its liberation. She was there on that day, although she doesn’t remember it, because she was only about a month old. Richt is one of the very small number of people who were born in a death camp…
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Fast Forward Nancy Pelosi leads Congressional delegation to Poland, Israel
(JTA) — House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, leading a congressional delegation to Poland and Israel to commemorate 75 years since the liberation of Auschwitz, laid a wreath at the former Nazi camp on Tuesday. Pelosi joined her Polish counterpart, Elzbieta Witek, the speaker of the Sejm, the lower house of parliament, and Polish Senate Speaker Tomasz…
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Fast Forward Auschwitz Museum condemns Polish school’s reenactment of Nazi gas chamber
WARSAW, Poland (JTA) – The Auschwitz Museum condemned a school ceremony in which students enacted a scene depicting the gassing of concentration camp victims. At a ceremony last month, seven-year-old children from the school in Łabunie in eastern Poland portrayed victims of the Nazis. The students dressed in striped uniforms and when the “gas” in…
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Fast Forward Did A Bot Generate Those Auschwitz Ornaments On Amazon?
What do the Korean Demilitarized Zone, the House of Slaves memorial in Senegal, a small track and field stadium in Chile and the Auschwitz-Birkenau camp all have in common? Amazon has sold Christmas tree ornaments featuring images of each of those places, although it has removed the Auschwitz ones, saying in a statement that they…
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Culture ‘Tell Them We Blew The Shofar At Auschwitz,’ He Said. 75 Years Later, She Did.
75 Rosh Hashanahs ago, in 1944, the sound of a shofar rang out at Auschwitz. Very few heard it. It was Rosh Hashanah, and as the Jewish year 5704 turned into 5705, Chaskel Tydor, a Jewish work dispatcher at Auschwitz III-Monowitz, arranged for a minyan of prisoners to be sent to an isolated part of…
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Fast Forward US Army Commander Suspended After Using Phrase ‘Arbeit Macht Frei’ In Memo
(JTA) — A U.S. Army commander of a recruiting company in Houston was suspended after he distributed a memo in which he used the phrase “Arbeit Macht Frie.” The phrase, which means “Work Will Set You Free,” was displayed on the gate of the Nazi death camp Auschwitz. The commander, whose name and unit have…
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Fast Forward Uruguayan Soccer Star Apologizes Over Emoji-Filled Birthday Photo At Auschwitz
RIO DE JANEIRO (JTA) — A Uruguayan soccer player apologized after sparking outrage for wishing himself a happy birthday with a photo from Auschwitz. Rodrigo Zalazar decorated a snap of himself outside the Nazi concentration camp with celebratory emojis and posted it to his Instagram. The insensitive image was taken on August 12, when Zalazar…
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