A group of survivors of Nazi death camps marked the 79th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau camp during World War II in a ceremony in Poland.
Students on school trips to a Holocaust museum outside Detroit would stand riveted at one stark display: a Nazi officer’s black uniform with a red swastika armband, guns and a whip. Some couldn’t resist snapping selfies. Now, however, the exhibit, at the Zekelman Holocaust Center in Farmington Hills, Michigan, has been redone as part of a major redesign. The showcase with the uniform is still there, but the view of those artifacts is partially blocked by photographs of German soldiers lounging a
Jewish lawmakers released statements Saturday to mark International Holocaust Remembrance Day, 79 years after the liberation of Auschwitz. Their remarks come as antisemitism has risen in the U.S. and abroad since the onset of the war between Israel and Palestinian militant group Hamas in Gaza. Sen. Ben Cardin (D-Md.), who is the grandson of Russian…
Germany's Chancellor Olaf Scholz on Saturday voiced concern over the rise of extreme-right tendencies in his country 79 years after the Auschwitz extermination camp was liberated. "New reports are emerging all the time: about neo-Nazis and their dark networks," the Social Democrat said in a recorded video speech commemorating the Jan. 27, 1945, liberation of Auschwitz by Soviet troops. "At the same time, right-wing populists are gaining ground, fuelling fear and sowing hatred," Scholz said, adding that this should not be accepted.