Auschwitz

When you listen to a witness, you become a witness

Remembering Elie Wiesel 10 years later

|ByELI RUBENSTEIN, IN COLLABORATION WITH MARCH OF THE LIVING
Elie Wiesel at 1990 March of the Living ceremony in Birkenau with Rabbi Israel Meir Lau, Chief Rabbi of Israel
Elie Wiesel at the 1990 March of the Living

I was there

On the 10th Anniversary of Elie Wiesel’s Passing, Tara Strong reflects on the March of the Living moment that transformed his silence into her lifelong voice.

|ByTARA STRONG, IN COLLABORATION WITH MARCH OF THE LIVING
Simcha Applebaum serving as deputy commander within the 188th Brigade.

Holocaust survivor, Yom Kippur War hero Colonel Simcha Applebaum dies at 99

Having moved from the horrors of the Holocaust to dedicating his life to the revival of the Jewish state, his experiences are the essence of the story of the Jewish people in the 20th century.

|ByELI ASHKENAZI
Declassified documents about Nazi doctor Josef Mengele, who fled to Argentina after World War II.

Switzerland to release sealed files on Nazi doctor Josef Mengele

Mengele, the monstrous doctor known as the Angel of Death, ran a horrifying system of experiments on Auschwitz camp prisoners, exploiting his professional status to advance Nazi racial theory.

|ByMATHILDA HELLER, TZVI JASPER

Our role as third-generation Holocaust survivors - opinion

Let us commit, now more than ever, to ensuring that “Never Again” is not just a promise but a living, breathing truth. This is our commitment as third-generation survivors.

FEBRUARY 2, 2025ByMONTANA TUCKER, SACHA ROYTMAN DRATWA
MONTANA TUCKER participates in a Combat Antisemitism Movement (CAM) Mayors Summit Against Antisemitism held in Beverly Hills last month.

Grapevine January 31, 2025: The long road to freedom

Movers and shakers in Israeli society.

JANUARY 31, 2025ByGREER FAY CASHMAN
HOLOCAUST SURVIVORS (from left to right): George Shefi, 93, Walter Bingham, 101, and Paul Alexander, 89, who came to the UK on the kindertransport are pictured with relatives at the residence of the British ambassador to Israel.

Defaced Auschwitz survivor mural finds new home at Rome’s Shoah Museum

After multiple acts of vandalism, a mural of Italian Auschwitz survivors has been preserved by Rome’s Shoah Museum.

JANUARY 31, 2025ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
The mural stands in the Jewish ghetto of Rome, January 30, 2025.

Holocaust survivor to return German award over far-right role in parliamentary vote

The AfD, which is under state surveillance on suspicion of being right-wing extremist, has come under fire in the past for criticizing Germany's culture of remembrance around the Holocaust.

JANUARY 30, 2025ByREUTERS
Maximilian Krah, Alternative for Germany (AfD) party member and member of the European Parliament of the Identity and Democracy (ID) group, speaks during the European election assembly 2023 of the Alternative for Germany (AfD) in Magdeburg, Germany, July 29, 2023.

Holocaust survivors like me have not only endured but thrived - opinion

The Nazis tried to erase us, but we are still here. And we will continue to be here – building, thriving, and lighting the way for future generations.

JANUARY 30, 2025ByNATE LEIPCIGER
American Jewish World War II veterans Don Golde (right), Cy Mermelstein (left), and Shep Waldman (center) stand next to the barbed wire fence of the concentration camp at the 62nd memorial of the liberation in Dachau on May 13, 2007.

‘We are united’: NYC Jewish, Muslim community members commemorate Auschwitz liberation

“The memory of the Holocaust reminds us that the seeds of hatred must be confronted wherever they appear,” CAM Chief Government Affairs Officer Lisa Katz said.

JANUARY 29, 2025ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Members of New York City’s Jewish and Muslim communities came together on Wednesday for an interfaith forum commemorating the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp’s 80th anniversary.

The only Jew in Oświęcim, Poland, can see Auschwitz from her bedroom window

Weisz-Gut works at the local Jewish museum, which aims to draw attention to the town’s once-thriving pre-Holocaust Jewish community.

JANUARY 28, 2025ByPHILISSA CRAMER/JTA
PRISONERS OF the Auschwitz concentration camp after their liberation by the Red Army in January 1945.

Survivors cry ‘never again’ at Auschwitz’s 80th liberation anniversary

‘I thought that to be a Jewish child means you have to die,’ Tova Friedman tells world leaders

JANUARY 27, 2025ByHAGAY HACOHEN
Holocaust survivor Leon Weintraub

Auschwitz through Jewish eyes: Lessons and reflections on memory

Reporters Notebook | Auschwitz through the eyes of Jews eight decades later.

JANUARY 27, 2025ByHAGAY HACOHEN
A visitor wearing the Israeli flag facing the execution wall in the death camp.

WATCH: Hostage families attend memorial at Auschwitz

"It's very hard because ... what's happened in 7th October is feeling like another Holocaust or pogrom in the kibbutz Nir Oz."

JANUARY 27, 2025ByREUTERS
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