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The problem with Auschwitz-Birkenau’s new digital camp replica

At this year’s Cannes Film Festival, the Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and Museum announced the launch of a new digital replica of the concentration camp for filmmakers. Titled Picture from Auschwitz, the virtual film location is designed to facilitate a range of productions set on the grounds, where preservation regulations currently restrict…

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A new coffee-table book shows one thing: celebrity artists should not be allowed near Auschwitz

We won’t deepen our understanding of the Holocaust with vanity projects like Juergen Teller’s misguided new work, says author Agata Pyzik

The Guardian - UK

Polish prosecutors probe far-right lawmaker over Auschwitz denial

Grzegorz Braun was widely condemned by leading figures in Poland after labelling Auschwitz concentration camp and its gas chambers as "fake".

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Polish Minister of Foreign Affairs Sikorski: Anti-immigrant hysteria harms Poland

On Saturday, the head of Polish diplomacy expressed concern over growing anti-Semitic and anti-immigrant rhetoric. "There is no acquiescence to the escalating campaign of racism and the anti-Semitism fuelled by it," Radosław Sikorski said in a recording published on the X platform.

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Polish prosecutors investigate far-right lawmaker for comments on Auschwitz

Polish prosecutors have launched a preliminary investigation after a far-right lawmaker described the gas chambers at the Auschwitz death camp as a “fake.”

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Auschwitz memorial blasts a comedian over a controversial photo. What happened here?

The photo came with a fake story too.

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Kristi Noem Faces Backlash After False Claim Her 'Ancestor' Was a Female Nazi Goes Viral

A tweet featuring photos of Kristi Noem and a female guard at Auschwitz is going viral on social media, along with a claim that the guard is related to Noem.

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Friday essay: ‘whose agony is greater than mine?’ Testimonies of Gaza and October 7 ask us to recognise shared humanity

In 1962, poet and Auschwitz survivor Yehiel Dinur took the stand in Jerusalem in the trial of Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann. Dinur was a much-anticipated witness, bearing the audience’s hope this man, a poet, would be able to explain – to capture and to transmit – the experience of…

The Conversation

Digital replica of Auschwitz created due to growing interest from filmmakers

The technical team used the most advanced spatial scanning technologies to create a digital replica of the Auschwitz I camp. The project was recognised at the Cannes Film Festival. We interview Bartosz Bartyzel, a spokesman for the Auschwitz Museum, to learn more about the project.

Euronews

New ‘historically accurate’ digital replica will allow films to be set within Auschwitz

The Auschwitz Memorial has created the model ‘to provide the industry with credible resources’, but it raises ethical questions over what type of films could be set there

The Guardian - UK

Holocaust survivor thanks those who took ‘high risks’ to help Jews during war

Jacques Weisser’s parents were taken to Auschwitz.

Evening Standard

Barstool Sports founder retracts Auschwitz tour offer to customer in antisemitic sign incident

Dave Portnoy posted that the customer ‘did a 180’

The Independent UK

Dave Portnoy shares footage after ‘screaming match’ with local Philadelphia reporter

The Barstool president said he would send students to Auschwitz for a ‘learning experience’ after an antisemitic sign was held up in his bar

The Independent UK

Dave Portnoy sending students to Auschwitz for ‘learning experience’ after antisemitic sign held up at his Philadelphia bar

The Barstool president said he would be paying for the trip following the ‘hideous incident’

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Polish and Israeli presidents lead March of the Living at Auschwitz

The Polish and Israeli presidents have joined thousands of Israeli youth and others in an annual march at the former Auschwitz death camp on Israel’s Holocaust Remembrance Day

The Conversation

Railways were essential to carrying out the Holocaust – decades later, corporate reckoning continues

The Holocaust could not have happened without the railways.

The Guardian - UK

The week in TV: Black Mirror; Doctor Who; What They Found; Simon Schama: The Road to Auschwitz; Reunion – review

Can the new Black Mirror compete with reality? Plus, Holocaust documentaries from Sam Mendes and Simon Schama, a pioneering British Sign Language thriller – and a nice bit of tension on Doctor Who

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"Ozzy jumped from one subject to another with astonishing rapidity, like some frantic pigeon": A mind-mincing encounter with Black Sabbath on the Sabotage tour

By 1976, Black Sabbath already had a huge heritage to live up to. We joined them on the road in Portsmouth

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Simon Schama: The Road to Auschwitz review – this gripping show isn’t afraid to ask awkward questions

The historian’s unflinching Holocaust documentary doesn't just chronicle horror. It also asks: how much was Europe to blame – and is any nation immune from antisemitism?

The Guardian - UK

The Women’s Orchestra of Auschwitz by Anne Sebba review – playing for their lives

The remarkable story of conductor Alma Rosé and the musicians who survived the Holocaust by performing amid horrific conditions

The Conversation

How Holocaust films are changing as we lose the survivor generation

The Holocaust is fast receding from living memory. Some 300 Auschwitz survivors were present at the 70th anniversary commemorations of the camp’s liberation in 2015. This year, just 50 attended, all of whom were children in 1945.

The Independent UK

Marian Turski, Auschwitz survivor who warned of danger of indifference, dies at 98

Marian Turski, a Holocaust survivor who became a journalist and historian in postwar Poland and was a co-founder of Warsaw’s landmark Jewish history museum, has died

The Guardian - UK

A Man of Few Words by Carlo Greppi review – Primo Levi’s saviour… and a tortured soul

An intriguing study of Lorenzo Perrone, the bricklayer who helped the famous author survive Auschwitz – then lost the will to live

The Guardian - UK

‘Did they learn nothing?’: Auschwitz survivor to return German honour over AfD vote role

Albrecht Weinberg ‘horrified’ that MPs relied on far-right party to pass anti-immigration motion

The Independent UK

Auschwitz commandant's daughter relives childhood with 'wonderful dad' Rudolf Hoess

Auschwitz commandant Rudolf Hoess oversaw the slaughter of around 1.1 million Jews, along with 20,000 gypsies and tens of thousands of Polish and Russian political prisoners.

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