Auschwitz

From Auschwitz to TikTok: how Lily Ebert inspired millions

This year’s Holocaust Memorial Day theme, “For a Better Future,” is a powerful reminder that remembrance alone is not enough.

By DOV FORMAN
26/01/2025

Auschwitz marks 80 years since liberation, potentially last with living survivors

Officials say the commemorative event marking the 80th anniversary of Auschwitz's liberation could be the last of its kind.

A gift shop at Auschwitz? New films and a graphic memoir explore ‘dark tourism'

Ari Richter’s memoir and new films revisit Holocaust memory and family roots.

By ANDREW SILOW-CARROLL/JTA
26/01/2025

Zelensky attends Auschwitz liberation memorial event at Babyn Yar

This ceremony is Zelensky’s third event at Babi Yar since the start of the war, reaffirming his commitment to Holocaust remembrance.

New film marks International Holocaust Remembrance Day

Israel commemorates its own Holocaust Remembrance Day in the spring, on the Hebrew date of the start of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising. 

Just 50 Holocaust survivors will be at Auschwitz for the 80th anniversary of its liberation

Fewer than 1,000 Auschwitz survivors remain as the 80th liberation anniversary nears.

By TOBY AXELROD/JTA
25/01/2025

This week in Jewish history: Liberation of Auschwitz, Yahrzeit of the 'Alter Rebbe'

A highly abridged weekly version of Dust & Stars.

By STEVEN DRUCKER
24/01/2025
 Britain's Queen Camilla, patron of the Anne Frank Trust, lights a memorial candle.

'Never forget', says UK's Queen Camilla at Holocaust remembrance event

Camilla said it was crucial to remember the Holocaust given anti-Semitism was at its highest level for a generation.

By REUTERS
23/01/2025
 Menachem Rosensaft leads a tour of the Auschwitz II-Birkenau

Where was God in the Holocaust? A NY poet and activist asks the question in a book of ‘psalms’

“Never again” pledges to stop all genocide. A commitment to honor and assist the dwindling number of survivors and to fight the antisemitism that persists 80 years after the liberation of Auschwitz.

By ANDREW SILOW-CARROLL/JTA
22/01/2025
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