The statement was issued as heads of state and government gathered Jan. 27 at Auschwitz-Birkenau in southern Poland to mark International Holocaust Memorial Day and remember the camp's estimated 1.1 million mostly Jewish, but also Polish, Roma, Soviet POWs and other nationalities’ and social group victims.
It doesn’t do any good for your heart, for your mind, for anything,” said Holocaust survivor Jona Laks, 94, about her return to Nazi Germany’s Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp.
Rabbi Neal Katz from Congregation Beth El in Tyler stopped by KETK on Tuesday to mark 80 years since the liberation of the Auschwitz concentration camp complex. Auschwitz was a series of concentration and extermination camps run by Nazi Germany in then-occupied Poland.
King Charles will join world leaders at the commemoration event in Poland where lights will be laid in memory of those murdered.
Good Morning Britain host Ranvir Singh has issued an apology after failing to mention Jews during the programme's Holocaust Memorial Day coverage. The ITV presenter faced criticism after referring to "six million people" killed in concentration camps during World War II without specifying they were Jewish victims.
Blackburn Cathedral hosted an event to remember the Holocaust and other genocides on the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration and death camp. The service on Monday was addressed by Mayor of Blackburn with Darwen,
Chabad Shliach Rabbi Shalom Ber Stambler sounded the shofar and Israel's former Chief Rabbi Yisrael Meir Lau recited Kaddish at the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the German Nazi concentration and extermination camp in Auschwitz.
The Daniel M. Hoan Memorial Bridge will shine yellow today in honor of International Holocaust Remembrance Day, in partnership with Light the Hoan.
Las Vegas Mayor Shelley Berkley still remembers the biting cold she experienced 20 years ago setting foot in the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp to mark the 60th year since the liberation of thousands of prisoners
Prince William shared his great grandmother's daring mission as Princess Kate joined Holocaust commemorations.
This year’s commemoration marks a milestone: 80 years since the Holocaust’s end, and 80 years of efforts to preserve the memory of its victims.