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Digital replica of Auschwitz created due to growing interest from filmmakers

The technical team used the most advanced spatial scanning technologies to create a digital replica of the Auschwitz I camp. The project was recognised at the Cannes Film Festival. We interview Bartosz Bartyzel, a spokesman for the Auschwitz Museum, to learn more about the project.

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New ‘historically accurate’ digital replica will allow films to be set within Auschwitz

The Auschwitz Memorial has created the model ‘to provide the industry with credible resources’, but it raises ethical questions over what type of films could be set there

The Guardian - UK

Holocaust survivor thanks those who took ‘high risks’ to help Jews during war

Jacques Weisser’s parents were taken to Auschwitz.

Evening Standard

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Barstool Sports founder retracts Auschwitz tour offer to customer in antisemitic sign incident

Dave Portnoy posted that the customer ‘did a 180’

The Independent UK

Dave Portnoy shares footage after ‘screaming match’ with local Philadelphia reporter

The Barstool president said he would send students to Auschwitz for a ‘learning experience’ after an antisemitic sign was held up in his bar

The Independent UK

Dave Portnoy sending students to Auschwitz for ‘learning experience’ after antisemitic sign held up at his Philadelphia bar

The Barstool president said he would be paying for the trip following the ‘hideous incident’

The Independent UK

Polish and Israeli presidents lead March of the Living at Auschwitz

The Polish and Israeli presidents have joined thousands of Israeli youth and others in an annual march at the former Auschwitz death camp on Israel’s Holocaust Remembrance Day

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Railways were essential to carrying out the Holocaust – decades later, corporate reckoning continues

The Holocaust could not have happened without the railways.

The Conversation

The week in TV: Black Mirror; Doctor Who; What They Found; Simon Schama: The Road to Auschwitz; Reunion – review

Can the new Black Mirror compete with reality? Plus, Holocaust documentaries from Sam Mendes and Simon Schama, a pioneering British Sign Language thriller – and a nice bit of tension on Doctor Who

The Guardian - UK

"Ozzy jumped from one subject to another with astonishing rapidity, like some frantic pigeon": A mind-mincing encounter with Black Sabbath on the Sabotage tour

By 1976, Black Sabbath already had a huge heritage to live up to. We joined them on the road in Portsmouth

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Simon Schama: The Road to Auschwitz review – this gripping show isn’t afraid to ask awkward questions

The historian’s unflinching Holocaust documentary doesn't just chronicle horror. It also asks: how much was Europe to blame – and is any nation immune from antisemitism?

The Guardian - UK

The Women’s Orchestra of Auschwitz by Anne Sebba review – playing for their lives

The remarkable story of conductor Alma Rosé and the musicians who survived the Holocaust by performing amid horrific conditions

The Guardian - UK

How Holocaust films are changing as we lose the survivor generation

The Holocaust is fast receding from living memory. Some 300 Auschwitz survivors were present at the 70th anniversary commemorations of the camp’s liberation in 2015. This year, just 50 attended, all of whom were children in 1945.

The Conversation

Marian Turski, Auschwitz survivor who warned of danger of indifference, dies at 98

Marian Turski, a Holocaust survivor who became a journalist and historian in postwar Poland and was a co-founder of Warsaw’s landmark Jewish history museum, has died

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The Guardian - UK

A Man of Few Words by Carlo Greppi review – Primo Levi’s saviour… and a tortured soul

An intriguing study of Lorenzo Perrone, the bricklayer who helped the famous author survive Auschwitz – then lost the will to live

The Guardian - UK

‘Did they learn nothing?’: Auschwitz survivor to return German honour over AfD vote role

Albrecht Weinberg ‘horrified’ that MPs relied on far-right party to pass anti-immigration motion

The Independent UK

Auschwitz commandant's daughter relives childhood with 'wonderful dad' Rudolf Hoess

Auschwitz commandant Rudolf Hoess oversaw the slaughter of around 1.1 million Jews, along with 20,000 gypsies and tens of thousands of Polish and Russian political prisoners.

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How to watch 'The Last Musician of Auschwitz' online from anywhere — stream moving Holocaust documentary

The orchestras of Auschwitz were a lifeline in the face of horror. Here's how to watch 'The Last Musician of Auschwitz' online, free and from anywhere.

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Evening Standard

What the papers say – January 28

The 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz features heavily on Tuesday’s front pages.

The Guardian - UK

The Last Musician of Auschwitz review – an exceptionally moving film that will ring in your ears for years

Anita Lasker-Wallfisch, now 99, escaped death in the concentration camp because she played the cello. As this intelligent, chilling and devastating documentary shows, music proved a curse and a comfort

Evening Standard

Kate has emotional reunion with Holocaust survivors in London as King pays tribute to victims at Auschwitz

Royals and world leaders mark 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz as survivors warn of rising antisemitism and hatred in the world today

The Guardian - AU

Morning Mail: antisemitism warning from Auschwitz survivor, our ‘unfair’ dental care, China stuns AI industry

An Auschwitz survivor draws comparison with conditions that led to the Holocaust; dental costs are forcing people to drop regular checkups

Evening Standard

King says remembering horrors of Auschwitz ‘a sacred duty’

Charles appeared emotional and wiped his eye at one point during a ceremony to mark 80 years since the Nazi death camp was liberated.

The Guardian - UK

‘Memory hurts, memory guides’: Auschwitz survivors mark anniversary with warnings over rising antisemitism

Elderly former inmates gather for perhaps final time and urge vigilance against resurgent European far right

The Independent UK

As the world commemorates the Holocaust, racism and intolerance continue to threaten our future

THE INDEPENDENT VIEW: Editorial: Eighty years after the liberation of Auschwitz, Holocaust Memorial Day is a solemn reminder of the past – and the persistence of antisemitism and genocide today

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