Auschwitz Memorial criticises Musk’s X for not removing anti-Semitic content
Warsaw, Poland Reuters The Auschwitz Memorial on Thursday criticised social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter, for failing to remove an anti-Semitic post on the site. X’s owner Elon Musk has described himself as a free speech absolutist, but some critics have said his approach is irresponsible. Researchers have found an increase in hate […]
Vatican cardinal honours Jewish convert, tells his own story
Rome, ItalyAP A Vatican cardinal marked the 80th anniversary Tuesday of the gas chamber killing of the Jewish-born Catholic convert Edith Stein by celebrating a Mass near the former Auschwitz death camp and telling the story of his own family’s Jewish origins and their fate under the Nazis. Michael Czerny is one of cardinals most […]
EU leaders worried by rise in anti-Semitism, Holocaust denial
Brussels, BelgiumAP European Union leaders pledged on Wednesday to confront the rise of anti-Semitism and Holocaust denial witnessed during the coronavirus pandemic, on the eve of the annual commemorations of Auschwitz’s liberation. European Council President Charles Michel said the lessons of the Holocaust are now “more relevant than ever.” “First, because Jewish people feel threatened, […]
“Righteous among the nations”: Seventy-seven years after Auschwitz, Jews honour those who rescued them
KIRSTEN GRIESHABER, of The Associated Press, reports that Yad Vashem and the Conference on Jewish Material Claims against Germany have teamed up to highlight the stories of “Righteous Rescuers” who risked their own lives to save Jews from being slain by the Nazis during World War II…
Pope Francis kisses numbered tattoo of Nazi death camp survivor
Vatican CityRNS Pope Francis kissed the numbered tattoo of a survivor from the Nazi death camp at Auschwitz on Wednesday after his general audience with the faithful at the Vatican. “The gesture by the Holy Father strengthened me and reconciled me with the world,” said Lidia Maksymowicz, 80, a Polish woman of Belorussian descent who […]
Auschwitz survivors mark anniversary online amid pandemic
Warsaw, Poland AP A Jewish prayer for the souls of the people murdered in the Holocaust echoed Wednesday over where the Warsaw ghetto stood during World War II as a world paused by the coronavirus pandemic observed the 76th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz. Most International Holocaust Remembrance Day commemorations were being held online […]
Auschwitz’s horrors still haunt Poles living in nearby town
Oswiecim, PolandReuters Daniela Szelc says she is still haunted by the screams of people and barking of dogs carrying through the night from the nearby Nazi death camp Auschwitz three-quarters of a century ago. The 89-year-old Polish woman vividly recalls her World War II childhood in her Nazi-occupied homeland. Her family’s home in the town […]
LIFESTORY: SORROW AND TRIUMPH – AN AUSCHWITZ SURVIVOR’S JOURNEY BACK TO A FORMER HELL
MAAYAN LUBELL, of Reuters, speaks with Holocaust survivor Jona Laks as she returns to the notorious Nazi death camp…
Poll: What do Americans know about the Holocaust? Some, not much
RNS A new poll suggests Americans know about the Holocaust, the genocidal campaign against European Jews, but they’re fuzzy on the details. Most Americans (69 per cent) know the Holocaust took place roughly between 1930 and 1950. And they know the Nazis created ghettos where Jews were forced to live (63 per cent). But knowledge […]
POSTCARDS: AT AUSCHWITZ, THOUSANDS JOIN THE MARCH OF THE LIVING TO HONOUR THE DEAD
MICHELE CHABIN, of Religion News Service, reports from Poland where she has just taken part in the March of the Living…