Concentration Camp

Remembering The Past, Building The Future

Rabbi Yitzchak Schochet | Posted 05.16.2012

Read More: Majdanek Concentration Camp, Holocaust, Prayer, Auschwitz, Nazis, Concentration Camp, Judaism, Rabbi, Genocide, Religion News

We wandered through this concentration camp in the blazing sun. It was uncharacteristically hot for this time of year. It somehow didn't seem right.

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Auschwitz Sees Record Number Of Visitors

AP | Posted 01.06.2012

Read More: Video, Holocaust, International Destinations, Travel Video, Auschwitz, Auschwitz Visitors, Concentration Camp, Destinations, Poland Travel, Travel News

WARSAW, Poland -- The memorial site of Auschwitz-Birkenau says it saw more than 1.4 million visitors in 2011, a record high for the former death camp....

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Nazi Death Camp Art On Show At Auschwitz Museum

AP | By MONIKA SCISLOWSKA | Posted 12.18.2011

Read More: Buchenwald, Holocaust, Occupied Poland, Nazis, Holocaust Art, Ravensbrueck, Poland, Auschwitz-Birkenau Death Camp, The Holocaust, Concentration Camp Art, Auschwitz, Auschwitz Museum, Concentration Camp, Arts News

WARSAW, Poland -- Photos of 20 drawings and other artifacts clandestinely made by inmates at Nazi death camps during World War II are on show at the A...

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'Schindler's List' Factory To House Contemporary Art Museum

ARTINFO | Posted 08.15.2011

Read More: Art, Oskar Schindler, Krakow, Artinfo, Steven Spielberg, Schindler's List, Holocaust, Poland, Mocak, Contemporary Art Museum, Museum of Contemporary Art Krakow, World War II, Concentration Camp, Slidepollajax, Arts News

Today, Oskar Schindler's Krakow factory is taking on a new mission. Through the initiative of mayor Jacek Majchrowski, it has become a contemporary art museum.

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Hitler's First Anti-Semitic Writing Found?

New York Times | Jack Ewing | Posted 08.03.2011

Read More: Anti-Semitism, Nazi Germany, Adolf Hitler, Holocaust, World War II, Concentration Camp, Nazi Party, World News

FRANKFURT — In 1919, a soldier in Munich discovered that he could galvanize small groups of fellow trench warfare veterans with virulently anti-Semi...

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Holocaust Victims Honored With March To Auschwitz

Posted 07.02.2011

Read More: Yam Hashoah, Jews, Holocaust, Poland, Holocaust Memorial Day, March of the Living@Depressing, Auschwitz, Adolf Hitler, World War II, Concentration Camp, World News

WARSAW, Poland (AP) – About 7,000 Jews marched to the former German Nazi death camp of Auschwitz on Monday in memory of the 6 million Holocaust vict...

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Elie Wiesel On Holocaust Remembrance (VIDEO)

Posted 07.01.2011

Read More: Elie Wiesel, Video, Yom Hashoah, Holocaust Remembrance Day, Holocaust, Elie Wiesel Video, Holocaust Remembrance, Yom Hashoah 2011, Auschwitz, Concentration Camp, Elie Weisel, Holocaust Remembrance Day 2011, Night by Elie Wiesel, Religion News

Elie Wiesel is a Holocaust survivor and author of more than 50 books. He is most famous for Night, the autobiographical story of his experiences in th...

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Preserving Auschwitz: A Responsibility to our Children

Jacek Kastelaniec | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Nazi, Holocaust, Human Rights, Nazis, Genocide, Auschwitz-Birkenau Death Camp, The Holocaust, Concentration Camps, Auschwitz, Concentration Camp, Crimes Against Humanity, Impact News

We, the remaining survivors of Auschwitz and the keepers of its memory, urge you to help preserve the physical evidence of Auschwitz and raise awareness to prevent future acts of hatred.

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International Holocaust Remembrance Day Commemorated

AP/The Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011

OSWIECIM, Poland (AP) - Germany's president stood in silence Thursday before a gray concrete wall where Nazis executed Polish resistance members at Au...

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Kissinger Controversy Recalls Provocative Art Piece

Menachem Wecker | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Anti-Semitism, Jerelle Kraus, Holocaust, Shah of Iran, Henry Kissinger, New York Review of Books, Concentration Camp, Richard Nixon, William Pfaff, Vietnam War, David Levine, New York Times, Cambodia, Charlotte Curtis, Mark Podwal, Soviet Union, Kissinger Op-Ed, Kissinger Caricature, Religion News

A recent op-ed on Kissinger and his response have generated a good deal of media buzz but the discussions have been largely political and have ignored an interesting art angle to the story.

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The Wall Street Journal understands history, when will the rest of the American media?

Alex Storozynski | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Zbigniew Brzezinski, Jan a.P. Kaczmarek, Lech Walesa, Rabbi Michael Schudrich, Marcy Kaptur, Norman Davies, The Kosciuszko Foundation, Radoslaw Sikorski, Auschwitz, Concentration Camp, David Harris, Media News

The Wall Street Journal gets it: Auschwitz was not a Polish concentration camp. The paper has officially changed its style guide to make sure that rep...

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Prosecuting Nazis in the 21st Century

Katie Engelhart | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: War Crimes, Adolf Eichmann, Nazism, Auschwitz, Nazis, Concentration Camp, Crimes Against Humanity, World News

We need to decide how much decades-old justice can be served in the courtroom. Not just because of the Nazis; they'll all be dead soon. But because the way we deal with crimes of war depends on it.

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Looking At An Icon Of Evil

Mark Jacobson | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Jews, Jewish Persecution, Nazi Germany, Nazi, Holocaust, Nazis, Jewish, World War II, The Holocaust, Jewish Culture, Concentration Camps, Concentration Camp, Mark Jacobson, Books News

"It is made from the skin of the Jews," the man said in the local patois. " Hitler made skin out of the Jews." The price was $35.

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Are We Allowed To Imagine The Holocaust?

Sharon Dogar | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: The Holocaust, Auschwitz, Concentration Camps, Sharon Dogar, Annexed, Holocaust, World War II, Concentration Camp, Anne Frank, Books News

There is no other way of reclaiming the individual stories of those who died than through an act of the imagination. How else can we do it if they are no longer here to tell of it themselves?

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Oliver Stone: Media Maven

Jim Moret | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Anti-Semitism, Jews, Adolf Hitler, Holocaust, Concentration Camp, Oliver Stone, Media News

Oliver Stone must love kittens and puppies and rainbows. What other kind of person could possibly see some good in everything and everyone, like Adolph Hitler?

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Auschwitz Survivor Recalls Daring 1944 Escape

AP | MONIKA SCISLOWSKA | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Auschwitz Escape Stories, Auschwitz Escape Attempts, Holocaust, Auschwitz Escape, Poland, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Jerzy Bielecki, World War II, Auschwitz, Death Camp, Nazi Regime, Concentration Camp, Auschwitz Escapees, World News

NOWY TARG, Poland — With every step toward the gate, Jerzy Bielecki was certain he would be shot. The day was July 21, 1944. Bielecki was walki...

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Verdi's Requiem

Madeleine M. Kunin | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Symphony, Concentration Camp, Nazis, Choir, Music, Holocaust, World War II, Orchestra, Healthy Living News

My mind skipped back and forth from Theresienstadt to the Flynn theatre. The redemptive power of music has rarely been portrayed with such terror and beauty as with the performance of Verdi's Requiem, both then and now.

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Canadians Detained For Stealing Auschwitz Rail Spikes As Mementos

AFP | Posted 05.25.2011

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Polish authorities detained two Canadians who allegedly stole spikes from a railway line that shipped Jews to the Nazi German death camp of Auschwitz...

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Holocaust Memorials DEFACED With Anti-Semitic Slurs

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

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WARSAW, Poland — Vandals sprayed anti-Semitic graffiti on Holocaust memorials at a former Nazi concentration camp in Poland, desecration that au...

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3 Short Books To Live By (And They're Not On Any Bestseller List)

Rabbi David Wolpe | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Great Books, Rilke, Meaning of Life, The Sabbath, Viktor Frankl, Life Changing Books, Books, Man's Search for Meaning, Heschel, Holocaust, Concentration Camp, Bestsellers, Auschwitz, Frankl, Books News

There are some books that really can change your life. They are not written to the demands of the bestseller list. They are short, borne out of deep experience, and filled with wisdom.

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Bush's Final Gift: Gaza

Eric Margolis | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Egypt, Syria, George Bush, Muslim Brotherhood, United Nations Iran, Gaza, Lebanese Fighting, Obama Secretary of State, President Obama, 9/11 Anniversary, George W. Bush, Fatah, 9/11 Commission, Hezbollah, Arab-Israeli Peace, Secretary of State Clinton, Concentration Camp, Israel Lebanon War, Arab-Israeli Conflict, Dick Cheney, Palestine Liberation Organization, President Bush Economic Crisis, Iran, Hamas Gaza, Ehud Olmert Scandal, West Bank Israel, Condoleezza Rice, United Nations, Mumbai Terrorism, Dick Cheney Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Mubarak Gaza, Bush, Terrorist, United Nations Security Council, Plo, Palestine, United States, Hamas Truce, Israeli Airstrikes, Israel Hamas Truce, Osama Bin Laden, Lebanese Government, Mumbai Attacks, Ehud Olmert Rice, Clinton Secretary of State, Warsaw, Sabra, Politics News

Just when we thought it was impossible for the calamitous George Bush and Svengali Dick Cheney to do any more damage to the world or to America's inte...

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