‘My father was the Tattooist of Auschwitz – it took me five attempts to visit his prison home’
Lali Sokolov – better known as the Tattooist of Auschwitz, who was immortalised in the 2018 book that has sold more than 13 ...
At Auschwitz, a Solemn Ceremony at a Time of Rising Nationalism
World leaders and a dwindling group of survivors joined in a ceremony to mark the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the ...
Memorializing the Holocaust Needs to Go Beyond Auschwitz
That creates risks: the Holocaust didn’t begin with mass murder. The dehumanization of Jews progressed gradually from public ...
The rail tracks of Auschwitz still cross the area as aging reminders of horror
During World War II, men, women and children were transported from across Europe to Auschwitz-Birkenau, horrendous journeys ...
Channel 4’s Mrs Thatcher drama is as deluded & venomous as you’d expect… why does it vilify the Iron Lady at every turn?
IT’S worth remembering, at least once a year, ­that Channel 4 owes its entire existence to Margaret Thatcher, who created the ...
Barak’s Memoryhouse At The Wallis: In Dance, A New Generation Encounters The Holocaust
Friday and Saturday, the Los Angeles Ballet will present Melissa Barak’s Memoryhouse, about Jewish lives during the Holocaust ...
Iconic fire-spitting dragon sculpture in Poland will hold its breath for a fuel-saving checkup
An iconic metal sculpture of a dragon that spits real fire in the Polish city of Krakow will hold its breath for a month to ...
A gift shop at Auschwitz? New films, memoir explore the contradictions of ‘dark tourism’
The works explore a process familiar to Jewish visitors to the death camps and the former homes of vanished loved ones: an ...