The solemn commemoration came amid a worldwide spike in antisemitism and new surveys suggesting basic knowledge of the Holocaust is eroding.
A survivor brings a candle to the Death Wall at the Auschwitz-Birkenau former Nazi German concentration and extermination camp, during a ceremony marking the 80th anniversary of the camp's liberation, in Oswiecim, Poland, Jan. 27. 2025.
KCRA Documentary screens at University of Arkansas The home is the former residence of the commander of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp, Rudolph Höss. The house recently featured heavily in the movie "Zone of Interest,
At Auschwitz, the Germans left behind barracks and watchtowers, the remains of gas chambers and the hair and personal belongings of people killed there. The “Arbeit macht frei” (work will set you free) gate is recognized the world over.
In all, the Nazi regime murdered 6 million Jews from all over Europe, annihilating two-thirds of Europe’s Jews and one-third of all Jews worldwide. In 2005, the United Nations designated Jan. 27 as International Holocaust Remembrance Day.
As the world observes International Holocaust Remembrance Day on Monday, 80 years after the Nazis' most notorious death camp at Auschwitz was liberated by the Soviet Red Army on Jan. 27, 1945, Léderer, 87, says the risk of hate-fueled violence against Jews and other groups continues to unsettle him.
Auschwitz survivors warned Monday of the rising antisemitism and hatred they are witnessing in the modern world as they gathered with world leaders and European royalty.
Some of the last living survivors spoke of worrying signs that safeguards of “never again” are falling away while antisemitism rises.
In all, the Nazi regime murdered 6 million Jews from all over Europe, annihilating two-thirds of Europe's Jews and one-third of all Jews worldwide. In 2005, the United Nations designated Jan. 27 as International Holocaust Remembrance Day.
When Teresa Regula arrived at Auschwitz as a 16-year-old, the first real pain she experienced was of her ears burning.
Dozens of world leaders, including Britain’s king and the president of Ukraine, joined a dwindling group of Nazi death camp survivors on Monday in southern Poland to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the Red Army’s liberation of Auschwitz,
MSNBC's Joy Reid claimed on Monday that similarities between Adolf Hitler's Nazi Germany and the United States under President Donald Trump are undeniable.