The house, until this year, had always been in private hands. A U.S.-based group, the "Counter Extremism Project," has purchased it. Now, in conjunction with the Auschwitz Museum and UNESCO, they have created "The Auschwitz Center on Hate, Extremism and Radicalisation." The home is now open to the public for the first time.
The 27th of January 2025 marks 80 years since the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau, this date has been commemorated in the UK to ensure the Holocaust and other Genocides are never forgotten.
The solemn commemoration came amid a worldwide spike in antisemitism and new surveys suggesting basic knowledge of the Holocaust is eroding.
KRAKOW, Poland (OSV News) -- "God did not create Auschwitz, God created man," said Cardinal Grzegorz Rys of Lodz after the Jan. 27 commemoration of the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the German Nazis' biggest death camp -- Auschwitz-Birkenau in Oświęcim,
Gut’s grandmother survived Auschwitz. In 2023, Weisz-Gut moved to the town where the concentration camp is located.
Polish President Andrzej Duda remembered the victims of the Nazis at the Auschwitz-Birkenau memorial site, as commemorations got under way on Monday to mark 80 years since the death camp was liberated towards the end of World War II.
CINCINNATI (WXIX) - The largest collection of Auschwitz artifacts outside of Europe is coming to Cincinnati later this year. Auschwitz. Not Long Ago. Not Far Away opens Oct. 18 at Union Terminal. It is being co-hosted by the Cincinnati Museum Center and Nancy & David Wolf Holocaust & Humanity Center.
German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier on Monday stressed Germany's enduring responsibility for the Holocaust as leaders and survivors marked 80 years since Soviet troops liberated the Nazi-run death camp Auschwitz.
Around 50 survivors of the Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz gathered together for the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the camp.
Jan. 27 marks the 80th International Holocaust Remembrance Day, which honors the victims of the Holocaust and commemorates the liberation of the Former Nazi German Concentration Camp of Auschwitz.
Monday's ceremony is widely being treated as the last major observance that any notable number of survivors will be able to attend.
"Auschwitz. Not long ago. Not far away." will open at Union Terminal on Oct. 18 2025, and is the most comprehensive exhibition dedicated to the history of the German Nazi concentration and extermination camp ever presented in North America.