Gender has been long overlooked in Holocaust research. Writing in the late 1970s and early 1980s, early scholars such as Joan Ringelheim and Sybil Milton had to fight for their legitimacy in a field ...
In a cinema in south-west Germany an audience is gathered to watch an Oscar winning film, Zone of Interest, about the life of Rudolf Höss, Commandant of Auschwitz. Those present comprise Jewish people ...
The gates to the Auschwitz death camp in Oswiecim, Poland. (Peter89ba/Pixabay via Courthouse News) OSWIECIM, Poland (AFP) — Hila Weisz-Gut, a 34-year-old Israeli, is sure her Auschwitz survivor ...
And it was pretty horrendous what they had to do. But they needed concerts on a Sunday for three hours to soothe their jagged ...
About 10 years ago, author Lily Tuck was reading obituaries in The New York Times when she came across photos of Czesława Kwoka, a young prisoner at Auschwitz concentration camp. Tuck didn't know much ...
For 80 years, the haunting melodies of Auschwitz lay buried in silence, hidden among the archives of one of history’s darkest chapters. Now, for the first time, this lost music – composed by prisoners ...
A black-and-white photograph of a young girl. Her hair has been roughly shaved. She has a bruise under her lower lip. She is wearing a striped concentration camp uniform. On the shirt, her number is ...
ADAMSTOWN, Pa. (AP) — A 91-year-old Pennsylvania man who has for years lectured to school groups and others about what he said were his experiences at Auschwitz now says he was never a prisoner at the ...
Only train tracks and barbed wire separate the former German death camp Auschwitz-Birkenau from Oswiecim. Oswiecim's residents try to lead normal lives despite knowing their town will always be ...