Auschwitz

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…

BERLIN: German Holocaust survivor Leon Schwarzbaum, a key witness in recent trials of alleged Nazi war criminals, has died aged 101, the International Auschwitz Committee (IAC) told AFP on Monday. Schwarzbaum died on Sunday night, according…

For a long time after, she did not leave her house.“It wasn’t that I was afraid of being killed,” she said. “I had a terrible feeling of inferiority. Once again in my life, I wasn’t in control of my own destiny.”What hit her the hardest…

The vandalism, some of which was anti-Semitic, was sprayed in English and German on nine wooden barracks at the Auschwitz-Birkenau site. It was discovered on Tuesday and has been reported to police. CCTV footage is also being analyzed, the…

Died: July 10, 2021. ESTHER Béjarano, who has died aged 96, was a Holocaust survivor whose musical skills kept her alive in the Auschwitz concentration camp while vast numbers of other people met their deaths. As a German Jew,…