Irwin Cotler: Eight lessons from Auschwitz
I recently returned from participating in the largest ever Inter-Parliamentary delegation to mark International Remembrance Day at Auschwitz, and to commemorate also the 69th anniversary of the...
View ArticleIrwin Cotler: When the Nazi Holocaust came to Hungary
This month marks the 70th anniversary of the beginning of the 1944 genocide of Hungarian Jewry — when some 600,000 Jews, three-quarters of that country’s Jewish population, perished as part of the Nazi...
View ArticleGermany charges 93-year-old former Auschwitz guard with accessory to 300,000...
BERLIN — German prosecutors say they’ve charged a 93-year-old man with 300,000 counts of accessory to murder for serving as a guard at the Nazis’ Auschwitz death camp. The charges against Oskar...
View ArticleAuschwitz ‘bookkeeper’ may be last Nazi tried in Germany for war crimes
Thomas Walther is talking about Auschwitz, and numbers, and how the statistics of the Holocaust exceed imagination. What does it mean, for example, to deport 437,000 Hungarian Jews to Auschwitz in the...
View ArticleA 93-year-old former Auschwitz guard will go to trial to face 300,000 counts...
BERLIN — A German court says a 93-year-old man charged with 300,000 counts of accessory to murder for serving as an SS guard at the Nazis’ Auschwitz death camp will go on trial early next year. The...
View ArticleAuschwitz: Graphic
On January 27, 1945, the Soviet army liberated Auschwitz — the Nazis’ largest death camp. By the time they arrived, more than 1 million had perished. Steve Paikin: Returning to Auschwitz, 70 years...
View ArticleSikh MP Tim Uppal says there is ‘so much we can learn’ from the Holocaust
OTTAWA — A man in a blue turban stood among thousands in toques, fur hats and yarmulkes in Poland on Tuesday to mark the 70th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz concentration camp. Tim...
View ArticleRome’s Jewish leader gets arrested, questioned for hours after getting stuck...
WARSAW, Poland — The head of Rome’s Jewish community and four others were questioned by police after triggering an alarm at the visitor’s centre at the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum. Usciti tutti ora...
View ArticleToronto holocaust survivor shares horrific tale as Nazi hunter preps for...
Thomas Walther presses “record” on a video camera, shifts forward in his seat and extends an arm toward an elderly gentleman seated across from him. “Now we are together with Max Eisen,” he says, in a...
View ArticleAuschwitz trial delayed as 93-year-old former SS guard too sick to appear in...
BERLIN — A court session in the trial of a 93-year-old former Auschwitz death camp guard has been called off because he is sick. Presiding Judge Franz Kompisch said former SS Sgt. Oskar Groening was...
View ArticleNDP candidate defends death camp-related penis joke: ‘I didn’t know what...
The Moment. In this daily feature until Election Day, the National Post captures a telling moment in time from the 2015 campaign trail. As she tried to explain away an Auschwitz-related penis joke, a...
View ArticleJewish groups ‘astonished’ that NDP candidate was not aware of Auschwitz
HALIFAX — Jewish groups said they were astonished that an educated school trustee running for the New Democrats in the federal election reportedly said she was unfamiliar with one of the Nazis’ most...
View ArticleAccused of being an Auschwitz medic, 95-year-old will stand trial on 3,681...
BERLIN — A German court says a 95-year-old man will go on trial next month on 3,681 counts of accessory to murder for allegedly serving in the Nazis’ Auschwitz death camp. Hubert Zafke is accused of...
View ArticleEurope’s Jews feel threatened amid resurgence of anti-Semitism, 71 years...
WARSAW, Poland — Dozens of elderly Holocaust survivors lit candles at Auschwitz on Wednesday, exactly 71 years after the Soviet army liberated the death camp that has become the most powerful symbol of...
View ArticleEx-SS guard at Auschwitz death camp on trial in late push to punish Nazi crimes
BERLIN — A 94-year-old former SS guard at the Auschwitz death camp is going on trial this week on 170,000 counts of accessory to murder, the first of up to four cases being brought to court this year...
View ArticleFormer SS sergeant, now 94, admits to being Auschwitz guard in courtroom...
DETMOLD, Germany — A 94-year-old former SS sergeant admitted in court Friday that he had served as an Auschwitz death camp guard, apologizing to Nazi Holocaust survivors looking on in a German...
View ArticleFr. Raymond J. de Souza: It’s always night at Auschwitz
I come to Krakow every summer to teach in a seminar for university students, and each year I visit Auschwitz. It’s on the program for the students, but optional for the teachers. Some choose not to...
View ArticlePoland plans prison terms of up to three years for calling Auschwitz a...
WARSAW, Poland — The Polish government approved a new bill on Tuesday that foresees prison terms of up to three years for anyone who uses phrases like “Polish death camps” to refer to Auschwitz and...
View ArticleArchaeologists unearth human bones near site where Nazi scientists...
Archaeologists in Berlin have unearthed a large number of human bones from a site close to where Nazi scientists carried out research on body parts of death camp victims sent to them by sadistic SS...
View ArticleReinhold Hanning, convicted former Auschwitz guard, dies in Germany at 95
BERLIN — Reinhold Hanning, a former SS sergeant whose conviction last year on 170,000 counts of accessory to murder for serving as an Auschwitz guard was hailed as a long-overdue victory for Holocaust...
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