Auschwitz
A railcar that transported prisoners to the Nazi concentration and extermination camp rests in Auschwitz-Birkenau. (Photo by Adam Reinherz)
October 14, 2024, 6:09 pm
Reporter’s Notebook: History, memory and responsibility lead to life in Auschwitz
Eighty years after German Nazi concentration and extermination camp liberated, seminar brings journalists to Poland to promote 'remembrance' and ask what's next
By Adam Reinherz
Historian Igor Bartosik at the former Union factory adjacent to Auschwitz, from which female prisoners smuggled revolt supplies to Sonderkommando prisoners living atop Birkenau gas chambers, August 2024 (Matt Lebovic/The Times of Israel)
October 9, 2024, 11:17 am
80 years ago on Oct. 7, Jewish Sonderkommando workers staged a failed revolt at Auschwitz
Decades before the Hamas atrocities, inmates took up arms against their Nazi tormentors. It didn’t succeed, but the revolt was singular, unprecedented, and facilitated by women
By Matt Lebovic
Lena Dunham and Stephen Fry visit Auschwitz in "Treasure," a 2024 tragicomedy set in the 1990s. (Bleecker Street)
June 16, 2024, 10:39 am
Lena Dunham and Stephen Fry take a father-daughter trip to Auschwitz in tragicomedy ‘Treasure’
The film tells the story of New York journalist Ruth Rothwax and her Holocaust survivor father as they visit the city of his birth — Łódź — and the concentration camp he survived.
By Toby Axelrod
A scene from "The Zone of Interest" (Courtesy of A24)
December 28, 2023, 12:59 pm
The real Auschwitz commandant — and Yiddish resistance song — behind ‘The Zone of Interest’
Movie depicts Rudolf Höss, the Nazi commandant who oversaw the mass killing operations at Auschwitz-Birkenau
By Andrew Lapin
Rabbi Nissan Mangel on the train tracks that brought him to Auschwitz in 1944, flanked by more than 90 of his children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren. Photo by Yisroel Tenenbaum
November 8, 2023, 3:39 pm
How do I cope?
As we face a historic rise in antisemitism, are we noticing the miracles of our survival today as they play out in real time?
By Rabbi Henoch Rosenfeld
Railway tracks leading into Auschwitz concentration camp. (Photo by Adam Reinherz)
January 27, 2023, 10:04 am
We’re visiting Auschwitz because the fight against antisemitism didn’t end with liberation
Second gentleman Doug Emhoff and U.S. antisemitism monitor Deborah Lipstadt write from Poland.
By Douglas Emhoff and Deborah Lipstadt
Charlotte Salomon and her grandparents before 1940. (Unknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons)
January 20, 2023, 12:55 pm
New film brings to life a young Auschwitz victim’s extraordinary mixed media display
While hiding from the Nazis, Charlotte Salomon made ‘Life? Or theatre?’, a series of paintings set to music and words
By Sarah Rosen
May/June 1944, Auschwitz gate in the background. "Selection" of Hungarian Jews for work or the gas chamber. From the Auschwitz Album, taken by the camp's Erkennungsdienst. (Several sources believe the photographer to have been SS officers Ernst Hoffmann or Bernhard Walter, who ran the Erkennungsdienst., Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons)
October 20, 2022, 9:12 pm
They fled the hell of Auschwitz, but that was not the only catastrophe they faced
Jonathan Freedland’s ‘The Escape Artist’ recounts an unforgettable story of Holocaust survival.
By Dan Friedman
Polish authorities arrested Jon Minadeo Jr., right, after he published a photo taken at Auschwitz. The photo sparked outrage on social media.
September 8, 2022, 10:59 am
Goyim Defense League founder arrested in Poland after demonstrating at Auschwitz
If Minadeo was indeed arrested, it would likely be the first time that the antisemitic influencer has publicly faced legal repercussions for spreading antisemitic propaganda.
By Gabe Stutman
Varsity Walk at the University of Pittsburgh Photo by Christopher Lancaster, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
February 16, 2022, 5:00 pm
Pitt professor accused of comparing wearing face mask to being gassed at Auschwitz
Vasili Rukhadze wrote email apologizing to students and denied that he made the comment.
By David Rullo
NFL star DeSean Jackson accepted an invitation from 94-year-old Holocaust survivor Edward Mosberg to visit Auschwitz together. (JTA/Screenshot from Instagram)
July 13, 2020, 7:03 pm
Now on DeSean Jackson’s post-pandemic schedule: Visiting Auschwitz
The NFL star accepted 94-year-old Holocaust survivor Edward Mosberg's invitation to visit Auschwitz together.
By Cnaan Liphshiz
Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks during the Fifth World Holocaust Forum at the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial museum in Jerusalem, Israel, January 23, 2020. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90     
January 29, 2020, 10:14 am
Putin skews Holocaust history at global Auschwitz commemoration event in Israel
Russian president misstates Holocaust fact
By Sam Sokol | JTA
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