Over a million Jews died there during the Holocaust Four German schoolboys made disgraceful gestures at the gates of Auschwitz last month, and they’ve now decided to show off the evidence via Instagram. From the Scultetus High School in Görlitz, the lads displayed a white supremacist ‘OK’ hand manoeuvre for the camera while stood on […]

11 months ago

Her actions have been described as ‘stomach-churning’ A woman has sparked anger online after a picture showed her posing for photos on the train tracks at Auschwitz. The Auschwitz Museum has since reminded visitors that they should be respectful when visiting the former Nazi execution camp where an estimated 1.1 million people were killed. In […]

3 years ago

The act has been described as ‘outrageous.’ The organisation that runs the Auschwitz-Birkenau II death camp has said that anti-Semitic graffiti has appeared at the site. The Auschwitz-Birkenau Museum and Memorial, which preserves the site of the Holocaust camp in Poland, released a statement on Tuesday afternoon (October 5) condemning the graffiti as “an outrageous […]

4 years ago

Zigi Shipper was sent to Auschwitz in 1944 In 1944, when he was just a boy, Zigi Shipper was one of over a million Jews sent to Auschwitz-Birkenau. Here he shares his astonishing story, from being forced out of his home in Łódź, Poland and into a ghetto, to the horrors of the death camp, […]

6 years ago

The world is breaking its promise to survivors of the Shoah – to never repeat the horrific genocide and never forget the stories of the millions who died

7 years ago

The move by the club is believed to have been conceived with the intention to educate rather than punish Chelsea are looking into the possibility of bringing an end to bans for fans found guilty of racist chanting and behaviour, and will instead look to educate them with trips to the Auschwitz concentration camp. The […]

8 years ago