Auschwitz
“It gives me hope” – The remarkable story of Irena Sendler
During the Holocaust, this Catholic social worker saved 2,500 Jewish children from certain death by convincing their parents, who were trapped in the Warsaw ghetto, to let her smuggle their kids to gentile families on the outside. Continue reading
Auschwitz survivor in Poland dies on anniversary of liberation
Kazimierz Smolen, a 91-year-old Auschwitz survivor who became director of the memorial site after World War II, died yesterday on the 67th anniversary of its liberation. Continue reading
POLISH GOV’T LAUNCHES AUSCHWITZ PROBE
The capture and prosecution of Nazi war criminal John Demjanjuk in the U.S.earlier this year has prompted the Polish government to launch another hunt for any remaining staff members from Auschwitz who could still be at large. Some 500 Auschwitz survivors will be interviewed to aid in the search. Continue reading
New culture built on sad remembrance
The camp gate is still there, with its cruelly ironic inscription, Arbeit macht frei — work makes you free.
And so is much of the rest of World War II’s deadliest Nazi death camp: the barbed wire, the crematoria, the vats of discarded shoes and spectacles, the walls of victims’ photographs. Continue reading
Meet The Man Who Sneaked Into Auschwitz
This weekend marks the 70th anniversary of a World War II milestone few people have heard before. It’s the story of a Polish army captain named Witold Pilecki.
In September 1940, Pilecki didn’t know exactly what was going on in Auschwitz, but he knew someone had to find out. He would spend two and a half years in the prison camp, smuggling out word of the methods of execution and interrogation. He would eventually escape and author the first intelligence report on the camp. Continue reading
Poland asks Sweden to probe Auschwitz theft
Poland has asked Sweden to question three suspects about the theft of the “Arbeit macht frei” sign at the Nazi death camp at Auschwitz, Polish prosecutors said on Thursday. Continue reading
Two Canadians held for Auschwitz rail-spike theft
Polish authorities detained two Canadians who allegedly stole spikes from a railway line that shipped Jews to the Nazi German death camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau, museum staff told AFP on Monday.
“Security guards detained two Canadians in their twenties shortly before noon on Saturday in possession of two spikes that held down the rails,” said Bartosz Bartyzel, a spokesman for the museum at the World War II camp. Continue reading
Polish Resistance member became prisoner to expose Auschwitz horror
Months after the occupying Nazi Germans set up Auschwitz, a Polish Resistance member made the courageous decision to become a prisoner there so he could expose the camp’s horror.
But despite his extraordinary role, Witold Pilecki was unheeded abroad and, more than six decades after his execution by Poland’s communist regime, he has been largely forgotten outside the country. Continue reading
Train retracing route of first Auschwitz convoy
Exactly 70 years after Nazi German troops packed them into train cars, a handful of Auschwitz survivors gathered Monday to commemorate the first ever rail convoy to the notorious camp. Continue reading
Swedish millionaire ‘with far-right sympathies’ linked to Auschwitz theft
A Swedish millionaire with alleged far-Right sympathies has been accused of being behind the theft of the Auschwitz sign amid claims he planned to sell it to fund a terrorist attack.
The accusations against Lars Goran Wahlstrom were made by Anders Hoegstrom, 34, who is in custody in Poland for his alleged role in the robbery. Continue reading
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