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Breaking News Consulting Firm Econ One Removes Birkenau Image from Website
The Los Angeles-based firm Econ One removed a photo from the Birkenau death camp from its website. The litigation and business consulting firm had published on its website an image of barbed wire and a guard tower from Birkenau. “Econ One was not aware that the image used in our ad to depict the movie,…
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The Schmooze Sting Rocks Out At Auschwitz
Apparently Auschwitz, symbol of the Final Solution and gravesite to over two million Jews, is now a hot concert venue. Last weekend marked the third annual Life Festival Oświęcim 2013, which seeks “to build peaceful relations beyond cultural and state borders where there is no place for anti-Semitism, racism, and other forms of xenophobia,” according…
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Breaking News Benjamin Netanyahu Opens Shoah Exhibit at Auschwitz Holocaust Museum
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu opened a new permanent exhibit titled “Shoah” at the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum. The ceremony took place Thursday in what used to be the Nazi extermination camp at the former Prison Block 27, which has been designed as an exhibit showing the death camp in the larger context of genocide in…
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Breaking News Muslim Clerics Who Visited Auschwitz and Dachau Slam Holocaust Denial
A group of imams who toured Auschwitz and Dachau said “denying the reality of the Holocaust” was “unacceptable.” “We bear witness to the absolute horror and tragedy of the Holocaust, where millions upon millions of human souls perished, more than half of whom were people of the Jewish faith,” said the May 28 statement from…
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News Muslim Clerics Learn Lessons of Auschwitz Firsthand
When Muslims tour Auschwitz and other sites of the Jewish Holocaust, and encounter survivors of that genocide face-to-face, the points of connection they make can be quite unpredictable. For Barakat Fawzi Hasan, a Palestinian assistant professor in Islamic Education at Al-Quds University in Jerusalem, a moment of clarity came as he and his co-religionists listened,…
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Breaking News Low-Cost Airline Mulls Israel-to-Auschwitz Flight
The low-cost airline Ryanair announced it was considering flying a route from Tel Aviv to Krakow, the southern Polish city situated near the former Auschwitz death camp. The announcement Monday came one month after Israel’s government decided to allow new flights to Europe. “It seems that every Israeli child has to go to Poland to…
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Breaking News Longlost Jewish Postcard Uncovered at Holocaust Death Camp Town of Auschwitz
Construction workers near the sole surviving synagogue in Oswiecim, Poland have turned up a postcard that sheds light on pre-war Jewish life in the town. Oswiecim is the Polish town where the Nazi death camp Auschwitz was built. It had a majority Jewish population before World War II. A lawyer in Paris named Georges Lewinsky…
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Breaking News Auschwitz Guard Who Was No. 4 on ‘Most Wanted’ Nazi List Arrested in Germany
German police on Monday arrested a suspected former guard at the Auschwitz death camp and Nazi-hunting group Simon Wiesenthal named him as Hans Lipschis. Prosecutors in the southwestern city of Stuttgart did not name the man but said police had arrested a 93-year-old alleged former Auschwitz guard with the “strong suspicion” he was involved in…
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