Arts Apr 23 Art exhibition shines light on Romani persecution during Holocaust By Jeffrey Brown, Anne Azzi Davenport, Hunter Bonaparte
World Jan 27 'I see hatred resurgent.' World pauses to commemorate International Holocaust Remembrance Day Bernard Offen, a 96-year-old survivor told participants that in today's world he sees "signs I know too well."… By Vanessa Gera, Associated Press
World Jan 05 Eva Schloss, Holocaust survivor and stepsister of Anne Frank, dies at 96 Schloss made it her mission to educate younger generations about the Nazi genocide. By Jill Lawless, Associated Press
World Apr 22 70% of Holocaust survivors will pass away in the next 10 years, report shows Eighty years after the Holocaust, more than 200,000 Jewish survivors are still alive, but according to a study 70% of them will be gone within the next 10 years. By Kirsten Grieshaber, Associated Press
Arts Jan 27 Watch 7:48 Museum works to preserve shoes belonging to Auschwitz's youngest victims On the 80th anniversary of its liberation, survivors of the Holocaust gathered at the extermination camp at Auschwitz-Birkenau in Poland. Of the more than six million Jews murdered by the Nazis, 1.1 million were killed at Auschwitz, nearly a quarter… By Malcolm Brabant
Jan 27 Auschwitz memorial holds observances on 80th anniversary of death camp's liberation by Soviet troops By Vanessa Gera, Associated Press Auschwitz survivors have warned of the rising antisemitism and hatred in the modern world as they gathered with world leaders and European royalty on the 80th anniversary of the death camp’s liberation. Continue reading
Jan 24 Watch 12:03 Holocaust survivor's family searches for answers while retracing her steps at Auschwitz By Malcolm Brabant Monday marks the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau extermination camp. One of the youngest survivors was an eight-year-old Polish girl named Rutka. She moved to Canada after the war and took the name Rachel Hyams. Decades later,… Continue watching
Sep 02 Poland holds funeral Mass for more than 700 victims of Nazi Germany's World War II massacres By Monika Scislowska, Associated Press The remains of Polish civilians including more than 200 asylum patients were exhumed in 2021-2024 from separate mass graves near the town of Chojnice. Continue reading
May 06 Survivors of Holocaust and Oct. 7 attack join memorial march at Auschwitz death camp By Rafal Niedzielski, Vanessa Gera, Associated Press The mood at the annual march was overshadowed by the war in Gaza after the October attack on Israel by Hamas, the deadliest violence against Jews since Adolf Hitler's regime sought to destroy the entire Jewish population of Europe. Continue reading
Jan 27 On Holocaust Remembrance Day, Nazi death camp survivors mark 79th anniversary of Auschwitz liberation By Czarek Sokolowski, Associated Press 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 modest ceremony Saturday in southern Poland. Continue reading