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Holocaust comparisons are frequent in US politics – and reflect a shallow understanding of the actual genocide and the US response

Robert Keith Packer, a 57-year-old Virginian, achieved a measure of infamy at the Jan. 6 Capitol riot when he was photographed wearing a sweatshirt emblazoned with a skull and crossbones along with the words “Camp Auschwitz.” “Work Brings Freedom,” the front said, a translation of the notorious motto “Arbeit macht…

The Conversation

Arnold Schwarzenegger causes stir after leaving Terminator quote in Auschwitz guestbook

Arnold Schwarzenegger has quoted a line from The Terminator in the Auschwitz guestbook - which hasn't gone down well amongst social media users

Daily Mirror

Schwarzenegger calls for 'fight against hate' during Auschwitz visit

Hollywood star Arnold Schwarzenegger visited the site of the former German Nazi death camp Auschwitz in Poland on Wednesday, vowing to fight hatred and discrimination and keep the story of what took place there between 1940-1945 alive.

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Schwarzenegger visits Auschwitz in message against hatred

Arnold Schwarzenegger has visited the site of the Auschwitz Nazi death camp to send a message against hatred

The Independent UK

The Jan. 6 rioter who wore a 'Camp Auschwitz' sweatshirt gets 75 days in jail

Photographs of Keith Packer wearing the antisemitic sweatshirt went viral after the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol. Packer said he wore it because he was "cold," according to a court filing.

WEKU

All the Broken Places by John Boyne review – a sequel of sorts

The follow-up to The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas is a powerful novel about secrets and atonement after Auschwitz

The Guardian - UK

Capitol rioter in ‘Camp Auschwitz’ sweatshirt sentenced to 75 days in federal prison

Robert Packer’s sister asked the judge not to ‘judge a book by its cover’

The Independent UK

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Rioter who wore 'Camp Auschwitz' sweatshirt gets jail term

A Virginia man who stormed the U.S. Capitol while wearing an antisemitic “Camp Auschwitz” sweatshirt over a Nazi-themed shirt has been sentenced to 75 days of imprisonment

The Independent UK

Holocaust survivor sisters die days apart in Alabama: ‘They were always together’

The sisters were forced into work at the Auschwitz Birkenau concentration camp

The Independent UK

'I survived a Nazi gas chamber aged 6 - now I tell children my story on TikTok'

Tova Friedman was selected for the gas chambers at Auschwitz along with other children, but miraculously survived after guards changed their mind at the last minute

Daily Mirror

Unknown Holocaust photos – found in attics and archives – are helping researchers recover lost stories and providing a tool against denial

The summer of 2022 marked the 80th anniversary of the first Nazi deportation of Jewish families from Germany to Auschwitz.

The Conversation

Vatican cardinal honors Jewish convert, tells his own story

A Vatican cardinal has marked the 80th anniversary of the gas chamber killing of the Jewish-born Catholic convert Edith Stein

The Independent UK

Polish Auschwitz survivor, novelist Zofia Posmysz dies at 98

Zofia Posmysz, a Polish World War II-era resistance fighter who survived the Auschwitz and Ravensbrück concentration camps and who later became a journalist and novelist, has died at 98

The Independent UK

‘He could not expel the trauma’: Sidney Nolan’s Auschwitz paintings revealed in landmark show

Preoccupied with the inhumanity of Nazi Germany, the artist painted 220 works in just four weeks: a ‘rambling, tumbling turmoil’ that he did not speak of for decades

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Daily Record

Artist renowned for his Auschwitz collection and depiction of Ayrshire mining life passes away aged 78

Gordon Cockburn's portrayal of the World War Two concentration camp is said to be amongst his most powerful work.

France 24

Eighty years after France’s Vél d'Hiv roundup of Jews, its last survivors recount ordeal

This month marks 80 years since the Vél d'Hiv roundup, when French police detained 13,000 Parisian Jews, including 4,000 children, acting on orders from occupying German forces and their French allies in the Vichy Regime. Many were first sent to the Vélodrome d'Hiver stadium, which gave its name to this…

France 24

Did Ukrainians really place anti-Russian stickers around Auschwitz? Nope.

Several pro-Russian accounts have been circulating photos that they say show how Ukrainians put anti-Russian stickers in different places in Auschwitz, the former death camp run by the Nazis. The stickers say: "Russia & Russians – The only gas you and your country deserve is Zyklon B", a reference to…

Daily Record

Sma' Shot Day move to commemorate Auschwitz death

The Unison union will be joined by relatives of Jane Haining for the Paisley parade

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Auschwitz museum target of Russian propaganda on social media

Social media posts falsely claimed to show anti-Russian stickers placed around former Auschwitz death camp in Poland.

The Independent UK

Auschwitz Museum says it's a target of Russian propaganda

The Auschwitz-Birkenau museum alleges it was the target of “primitive” propaganda spread by Russian state agencies on social media

The Guardian - UK

The Escape Artist by Jonathan Freedland review – how an Auschwitz breakout alerted the world

The gripping and heroic story of Rudolf Vrba, who escaped the death camp in order to tell the world about its horrors

The Guardian - UK

The Escape Artist by Jonathan Freedland review – the man who broke out of Auschwitz

The astonishing story of how Rudolf Vrba escaped the Nazi camp, and his mission to tell the world about it

The Guardian - UK

Escape from Auschwitz: the most extraordinary Holocaust story you’ve never heard

A pair of Jewish prisoners plotted to break out of the death camp and tell the world the true horror of what they’d seen. How did they do it?

France 24

The spy inside Auschwitz: The true story of Polish resistance fighter Witold Pilecki

Witold Pilecki was a Polish resistance fighter who volunteered to go to Auschwitz, from where he sent secret messages to warn the world about the true nature of Nazi Germany's largest concentration camp. After the war, Pilecki was tried and executed. For years, he was described as a traitor and…

France 24

New French Prime Minister Élisabeth Borne, daughter of a stateless Auschwitz survivor

French Prime Minister Élisabeth Borne's childhood was marked by the suicide of her father in 1972, when she was just 11 years old. Joseph Borne, whose original name was Bornstein, was a Jewish resistance fighter of Polish origin who survived the hell of Auschwitz but never quite recovered from the…

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