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Light a virtual candle for the victims of genocide on Holocaust Memorial Day

Friday marks the 78th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz

Manchester Evening News

Susan Pollack OBE: Holocaust Survivor tells her story for memorial day

A Nazi concentration camp survivor has urged people to end a culture of blame and instead learn from the past to put an end to atrocities we continue to see around the world. Marking Holocaust Memorial Day, Susan Pollack told The Standard: “Hate has a way of spreading. It isn’t…

Evening Standard

Holocaust Memorial Day: Five survivors and the precious objects they smuggled to safety

To mark Holocaust Memorial Day, five survivors recall their stories, and the item they still have that means so much to them as part of the Daily Mirror's #PeopleMove project

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Holocaust Memorial Day: Auschwitz survivor urges people to treat each other equally

As world remembers atrocities, survivor Susan Pollack urges people to learn from the past and end culture of blame

Evening Standard

Survey: Half Of Americans Don’t Know How Many Jews Died In The Holocaust

Only 53% of Americans over the age of 18 answered correctly that approximately six million Jews were killed in the Holocaust.

Zenger

Holocaust survivor's daughter says her mum never talked about horrors of Auschwitz

Marta Seiler's parents both survived the Holocaust, but Marta knew very little about their experience until she read a series of harrowing letters written by the pair and other members of the family

Daily Mirror

Prince William and Kate's moving message after death of man who 'will be truly missed'

Holocaust survivor Zigi Shipper passed away at the age of 93, and on his birthday and met the Duke and Duchess in 2017 during their visit to Poland where he spoke of his time at Auschwitz-Birkenau

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Police officer sacked for texts about ‘dodgy showers’ in Auschwitz

The group had various names including ‘**** Hate Group’, named after a mixed-race officer, ‘Boris’s Benders’, ‘Atkin’s Puppets’ and ‘Bottles and Stoppers’

The Independent UK

Heroic Scots Auschwitz survivor and former Stirling Albion star celebrates 100th birthday

Stirling man Jan Szpula was surrounded by his family as he marked his 100th birthday.

Daily Record

The Last Stage review – cinema’s first look at the horror of Auschwitz

This 1948 feature film by Wanda Jakubowska, a Polish survivor of the death camp, is both forthright and nightmarish, and invented the cinematic language with which to make the Holocaust thinkable

The Guardian - UK

Auschwitz Survivor, 99, Honored By Britain’s King Charles

At 99, I celebrate to show that the Nazis did not win. The post Auschwitz survivor, 99, was honored by King Charles.

Zenger

Julius Hirsch: The German ‘national hero’ killed by the Nazis

Only the second Jew to play for Germany, Hirsch broke records and fought in WWI for a country that would kill him.

Al Jazeera

Charlotte review – absorbing animation about a remarkable artist, murdered at Auschwitz

Keira Knightley gives voice to Charlotte Salomon, the German-Jewish painter who said she killed her own grandfather after he abused her, in a powerful but flawed biopic

The Guardian - UK

Like Primo Levi at Auschwitz, Behrouz Boochani testifies for the people who lived and died in a prison camp

This is an edited extract from Freedom, Only Freedom: The Prison Writings of Behrouz Boochani.

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‘She worked in a terrified state’: the extraordinary life of Charlotte Salomon, who died in Auschwitz

The pioneering German Jewish artist was murdered by the Nazis but her work lives on. The makers of a new biopic, featuring the voices of Keira Knightley and Helen McCrory, explain her enduring appeal

The Independent UK

Auschwitz hero's son seeks millions for dad's 1948 execution

The son of World War II Auschwitz death camp hero Witold Pilecki is seeking millions in compensation from Poland's government for his father's post-war arrest and his 1948 execution by the communist authorities of the time

Salon

GOPer wrote Jesusy "Anne Frank" sequel

Johnny Teague wrote a novel in which Frank accepts Jesus and converts to Christianity at Auschwitz

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Champion Celtics alum Ray Allen recirculates article on Auschwitz after Ye West’s antisemitic rants

Allen felt the need to repost his article on Auschwitz 'in light of the rhetoric being spewed through the airwaves.'

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Radio France Internationale

Biopic of French politician and Holocaust survivor defies critics

A biopic of the late Simone Veil, one of France's most admired public figures, has received some damning reviews, but its success at the box office shows there's an appetite for tales of strong women and dark periods in French history.

The Guardian - UK

The value of photographic evidence of Nazi crimes

Letter: Toby Simpson, the director of the Wiener Holocaust Library, on the new Seeing Auschwitz exhibition in London

The Guardian - UK

Seeing Auschwitz photographic exhibition opens in London

Images that shaped perception of Nazi death camp were taken by perpetrators, curator says

Tribune News Service

Review: 'The Escape Artist,' by Jonathan Freedland

NONFICTION: The harrowing true story of the first Jew to escape from Auschwitz, and his driving need to warn the world about the Holocaust.

Irish Mirror

Ukraine accuses Russia of 'mini-Auschwitz' after they claim bucket of dental crowns found in retaken land

The area of Pisky-Radkivski was retaken by Ukraine earlier this week, and the Ministry for Defence have said that two items were found

The Conversation

Holocaust comparisons are frequent in US politics – and reflect a shallow understanding of the actual genocide and the US response

Robert Keith Packer, a 57-year-old Virginian, achieved a measure of infamy at the Jan. 6 Capitol riot when he was photographed wearing a sweatshirt emblazoned with a skull and crossbones along with the words “Camp Auschwitz.” “Work Brings Freedom,” the front said, a translation of the notorious motto “Arbeit macht…

Daily Mirror

Arnold Schwarzenegger causes stir after leaving Terminator quote in Auschwitz guestbook

Arnold Schwarzenegger has quoted a line from The Terminator in the Auschwitz guestbook - which hasn't gone down well amongst social media users

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