Auschwitz

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• 1/23/2022
  

  A Ten Year Old's Witness to the Liberation of Auschwitz

  by Bernice Lerner

  Jerzy (George) Ogurek had beaten the odds to survive in Auschwitz for three months when the Red Army arrived to liberate the camp. 50 years later, none of his colleagues at Boston University knew of his ordeal.

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• 1/23/2022
  

  For Child Survivors of Auschwitz, "Who Am I" was the Most Difficult Question

  by Alwin Meyer

  For child survivors of Auschwitz, efforts to reunite them with families after forced separation in the camp often proved to be an ongoing source of pain and confusion.

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• SOURCE: The Bulwark
  7/27/2021
  

  Should Rep. Lauren Boebert Visit Auschwitz after her Comparison of COVID Mandates to the Holocaust?

  "The Holocaust used to be out of bounds in political discourse because its enormity shocked the world—at least the free world. The original enforcer of this norm was conscience."

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  1/27/20
  

  Seventy-Five Years After Auschwitz, Anti-Semitism Is on the Rise

  by Walter Reich

  You can manage a chronic disease, treat it, or prevent its complications—but you can rarely cure it.

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• SOURCE: Retropolis
  1/27/20
  

  The first transport of Jews to Auschwitz was 997 teenage girls. Few survived.

  Though Auschwitz was liberated on Jan. 27, 1945, most of the surviving girls weren’t there to see it.

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  1/25/20
  

  75 Years After Auschwitz Liberation, Worry That ‘Never Again’ Is Not Assured

  Amid a surge of anti-Semitism and a rise in dehumanizing political rhetoric, there is fear that the horrific lessons of the death camp are being lost.

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• SOURCE: The New York Times
  1/21/20
  

  The Road to Auschwitz Wasn't Paved With Indifference

  by Rivka Weinberg

  We don’t have to be ‘upstanders’ to avoid genocides. We just have to make sure not to help them along.

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• 11/3/19
  

  A Holocaust Survivor Tells His Remarkable True Story of Courage and Survival at Auschwitz

  by Max Eisen

  "Once I put on these striped prisoner’s clothes, I felt like I was no longer a human being, only a number."

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  September 21, 2019
  

  An Improbable Relic of Auschwitz: a Shofar That Defied the Nazis

  The daughter of a Holocaust survivor has brought forward a ram’s horn trumpet and her father’s account of the power of belief amid death.

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• SOURCE: Time
  7/25/19
  

  Last Polish Inmate From 1940 Transport to Auschwitz Dies

  The Germans caught Albin in 1940 as he fled occupied Poland to join Polish armed forces abroad.

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• SOURCE: Time
  5/2/19
  

  Why Auschwitz Plays Such a Central Role in Holocaust Remembrance

  by Olivia B. Waxman

  Though it was just one of the half-dozen Nazi camps that scholars identify as “killing centers,” there’s a reason Auschwitz has become the focus of the history of the Holocaust.

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  1/23/19
  

  The Horrors of Auschwitz at a Museum in New York

  “This exhibit reminds them, and it reminds all of us, where anti-Semitism ultimately leads."

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• SOURCE: The Guardian
  5-7-18
  

  Poland's Holocaust law triggers tide of abuse against Auschwitz museum

  Staff say they have suffered a campaign of disinformation and hate from Polish nationalists.

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• SOURCE: The Times of Israel
  4-12-18
  

  Poll: Most Americans believe Holocaust could happen again

  Nearly half are unable to name a single ghetto or concentration camp, and 4 in 10 are unsure what Auschwitz was.

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• SOURCE: The Washington Post
  1-28-18
  

  Israel and Poland try to tamp down tensions after Poland's 'death camp' law sparks Israeli outrage

  Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki spoke by phone Sunday and agreed to open a dialogue to avoid further diplomatic fallout following Poland’s initial approval of a law making it a criminal offense to mention Polish complicity in crimes committed during the Holocaust.

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• SOURCE: Reuters
  12-29-17
  

  Court rules "Bookkeeper of Auschwitz," 96, must go to jail

  Germany’s constitutional court has ruled that a 96-year-old German must go to jail over his role in mass murders committed at the Nazi death camp at Auschwitz during World War Two, refusing to overturn a lower court ruling.

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• SOURCE: NYT
  9-6-17
  

  Why Did Israel Let Mengele Go?

  by Ronen Bergman

  It had other priorities for Mossad, the short-handed agency.

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• SOURCE: NYT
  7-26-17
  

  Auschwitz Artifacts to Go on Tour, Very Carefully

  More than 72 years after the liberation of Auschwitz, the first traveling exhibition about the Nazi death camp will begin a journey later this year to 14 cities across Europe and North America, taking heartbreaking artifacts to multitudes who have never seen such horror up close.

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• SOURCE: National Post
  7-20-17
  

  Did an Israeli student steal Auschwitz artifacts for her art exhibit?

  Her school, Beit Berl College, first condemned the apparent theft, then backtracked after she said collected the items from outside the camp grounds.

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• 4-23-17
  

  “WOW, Auschwitz Had a Pharmacist?!”

  by Patricia Posner

  An interview with Patricia Posner, author of “The Pharmacist of Auschwitz: The Untold Story.”