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To try to reach young people around the world, the memorial museum at Auschwitz has launched a page on Facebook, the social networking site usually home to news and photos about friends, funny videos and the minutiae of modern life.
The memorial museum at Auschwitz has launched a Facebook page, hoping that the popular social networking site will help it reach young people around the globe and engage them in discussions about the former Nazi death camp and the Holocaust.
Sketched on yellowing parchment, the 29 blueprints presented to Israel's prime minister Thursday lay out the Nazi death camp at Auschwitz in chilling detail, with gas chambers, crematoria, delousing facilities and watch towers drawn to scale.
The European Union will give euro4.2 million ($5.9 million) to help preserve Auschwitz, the former Nazi death camp which more than six decades after the World War II is in a state of serious disrepair.
A note hidden in a bottle by Auschwitz prisoners 65 years ago in a desperate attempt to preserve a small piece of themselves was added Wednesday to the archives of the Polish state-run museum dedicated to the memory of the former Nazi death camp's victims.
Albert Veissid stashed stolen marmalade for six fellow prisoners in an Auschwitz bunker, a French Jew helping Polish Christians in a gesture of desperate solidarity. In thanks, they shared spare cups of soup — and etched his name alongside theirs in a note buried in a bottle for 65 years.
The note, written in pencil then rolled up and inserted in a bottle, contains the names of seven young people who probably thought they were doomed to die in the notorious Auschwitz death camp.
Poland's prime minister has appealed to leaders of EU countries for help raising euro120 million (about $150 million) for badly needed restoration work at the sprawling former Nazi death camp of Auschwitz.
Architectural plans for the Nazi death camp Auschwitz that were discovered in Berlin last year go on public display in the German capital on Tuesday.
The U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum on Wednesday unveiled a photo album containing 116 rare photographs of senior SS officers and other officials at the Auschwitz concentration camp.
As they do on every anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz by Soviet troops, witnesses to the Holocaust will gather Saturday — growing older, frailer and fewer each year. After 62 years, the camp itself is also showing signs of aging under the pressures of tourism and time.
Works and Days: The Power of Payback for ObamaObama is now caught and tumbling to or below 50% approval.
Netanyahu's UN speech: "Have you no shame? Have you no decency?" (video and transcript)The United Nations was founded after the carnage of World War II and the horrors of the Holocaust. It was charged with preventing the recurrence of such horrendous events.
NPE - Poland to send prisoners to Auschwitz for 'shock therapy'Authorities in southern Poland are to send prisoners to Auschwitz concentration camp as part of a "shock therapy" programme intended to stop them re-offending.
Vatican teaching Hezbollah how to kill Jews, says pamphlet for IDF troopsThe Pope and the cardinals of the Vatican help organize tours of Auschwitz for Hezbollah members to teach them how to wipe out Jews, according to a booklet being distributed to Israel Defense Forces soldiers.
How to survive AuschwitzDo you want to be one of the happier and better concentration camp survivors, asks Psychology Today, or one of those loser survivors? Let the folks from Auschwitz provide the practical advice you need to Survive the Recession!
The Auschwitz complex consisted of three camps. One was mostly administrative, another was a slave labor camp supporting an I.G. Farben industrial enterprise, and Auschwitz-Birkenau was the death camp.
The Auschwitz concentration camp was formally liberated by Soviet forces on January 27, 1945. In the years since, Auschwitz has come to symbolize the Holocaust.
UK-Israeli reporters: Israeli Firms Profiting From The Holocaust by keeping victims' fundsBank Leumi , Israel's second largest, has denied it holds any such funds despite a parliamentary committee revealing in 2004 that the bank owes at least $75 million to the families of several thousand Holocaust victims.
Auschwitz: The comic bookThe first-ever Holocaust comic books are to go on sale telling the stories of victims of the Auschwitz concentration camp. The first graphic novel - Love in the Shadow - tells the story of a couple who are caught trying to escape together by brutal German SS guards.
Hidden Auschwitz Message Hailed as Rare FindA note hidden in a bottle by Auschwitz prisoners 65 years ago in a desperate attempt to preserve a small piece of themselves was added Wednesday to the archives of the Polish state-run museum dedicated to the memory of the former Nazi death camp's victims.
The Auschwitz and Iran Bombing Controversies: Are There Parallels? Israel has demonstrated in dramatic fashion its capabilities to pre-emptively destroy existential threats.
65 Years Have Passed Since They Wrote Their Note; Polish Construction Workers Found Auschwitz Prisoners' Message In A BottleA letter written by Auschwitz prisoners in 1944 has been discovered by construction workers in Poland.
Builders find Auschwitz messageBuilders working near the site of the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp have found a message in a bottle written by prisoners, museum officials say.
Prisoner behind Auschwitz message found in FranceOne of the Auschwitz prisoners who left a message in a bottle found recently near the Nazi death camp has likely been located living in France, memorial spokesperson Jarek Mensfelt told The Local on Tuesday.
Workers find message in an Auschwitz bottleWorkers demolishing the wall of a building that once belonged to the former Nazi German Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp have found a message in a bottle written by prisoners 65 years ago, Auschwitz museum officials said Monday.
Workmen find hidden Auschwitz letterWorkers found a note dated Sept. 9, 1944 that contains the names of seven young people who probably thought they were doomed to die in the notorious Auschwitz death camp, officials said Monday.
With the exception of the Jack Bauer-wannabees, I'm sure most Americans are ashamed and disgusted with the recent revelations from the International Red Cross documenting the use of torture by the CIA at Guantanamo, Abu Ghraib, and various "black sites" around the world.
Auschwitz tattoos help victims reuniteAs terrified teenagers 65 years ago, Menachem Sholowicz and Anshel Sieradzki stood in line together in Auschwitz, having serial numbers tattooed on their arms. Sholowicz was B-14594; Sieradzki was B-14595.
Israel, Iran and Fear-----Apartheid State or Binational State?When I lived in Germany in the 1990s, the return of the capital from Bonn to the scene of the crime, Berlin, prompted agonizing over how to memorialize the Holocaust.
Kids 'think Auschwitz is a type of beer'Hundreds of British schoolchildren believe Auschwitz is the name of a beer, religious festival or type of bread instead of the infamous Nazi death camp, a new survey shows.
Auschwitz is a type of beer, a festival or bread, say children"SOME schoolchildren believe Auschwitz is the name of a type of beer or a religious festival, rather than the Nazi extermination camp, research published today reveals. About 1.3 million people perished in the death camp during the Second World War, but a survey of more than 1,0 …
German car firm 'used hair from Auschwitz'One of the pillars of German industry, the giant but debt-crippled Schaeffler car parts supplier, was accused yesterday of using hair shorn from at least 40,000 Auschwitz death camp prisoners to make textiles at its factories in Nazi-occupied Poland during the Second World War.
Cash crisis threat to AuschwitzBy Raffi Berg BBC News, Auschwitz-Birkenau It is a bitterly cold winter's day at one of the most notorious and harrowing places on Earth. Patches of ice crunch underfoot with every step, punctuating the silence which has long pervaded this former killing field.
Auschwitz-Birkenau Faces Funding CrisisThe former Nazi death camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau, where more than a million people were killed in World War II, faces an uncertain future. Pawel Sawicki of the Auschwitz Museum explains the problems of preserving the ageing and crumbling 191-hectare site, with limited funds.
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