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Fast Forward Ice cream truck outside Auschwitz provokes criticism
A spokesman for the museum said the truck, which is just outside of the institution’s protected zone, is an example of “aesthetic tastelessness” and “disrespect”
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News ‘I was sick to my heart’: Holocaust survivor, 94, returns to the Auschwitz cell block where he spent years of his childhood
No survivor had ever before returned to Cell Block 8
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Culture The ‘grown-up Anne Frank’ remains little known — and there’s a reason for that
Etty Hillesum, who died in Auschwitz in 1943, wrote frankly about her inner life and her love affairs
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Fast Forward Emhoff condemns synagogue attack while visiting Holocaust sites in Poland
‘What we are seeing today, we cannot have history repeat itself’
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Opinion We’re visiting Auschwitz because the fight against antisemitism didn’t end with liberation
Second gentleman Doug Emhoff and U.S. antisemitism monitor Deborah Lipstadt write from Poland
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Fast Forward Second gentleman Emhoff to tour Auschwitz-Birkenau memorial on Holocaust Remembrance Day
Emhoff, who will be joined by Ambassador Deborah E. Lipstadt, will also travel to Berlin for meetings with global antisemitism envoys
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Film & TV In this overlooked documentary, the son of Holocaust survivors embarks on a seemingly impossible mission
In 'The Presence of Their Absence,' Fred Zaidman searches for evidence of his family's lost story
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Culture They fled the hell of Auschwitz, but that was not the only catastrophe they faced
Jonathan Freedland's 'The Escape Artist' recounts an unforgettable story of Holocaust survival
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