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Former Nazi concentration camp accountant Oskar Groening, convicted of being an accessory to the murder of 300,000 Jews, will never serve his prison term. Having exhausted all his appeals, Groening, 96, has died in hospital. Former SS sergeant Groening was handed down a prison sentence in what is viewed as one of the last major […]
Published time: 6 Oct, 2017 20:07 Edited time: 6 Oct, 2017 20:54 Emmanuel College at Cambridge University was forced to apologize for using an image of infamous Nazi concentration camp, Auschwitz, on a leaflet for its new students. The picture was put on the cover of the pamphlet, which invited students to the welcoming sermon […]
Published time: 28 Sep, 2017 20:54 A survey of German school children aged 14 or older has found that only 59 percent of students know about the Nazi death camp Auschwitz. Experts blame the findings on a lack of history education. The surprising results were released Thursday by the Korber Institute, who carried out the […]
Published time: 12 Aug, 2017 17:08 Auschwitz survivor and the world’s oldest man, Yisrael Kristal, has died at the age of 113 following a short illness. The Polish-Israeli man died on Friday just a month before his 114th birthday. Born in a small Polish village in 1903, Kristal lost both of his parents during the […]
An Israeli art student could face charges after admitting to stealing a number of items from the Auschwitz concentration camp in order to display them as part of her final year art exhibit. Rotem Bides, 27, took a number of items from the notorious death camp during her six trips to the site. Bides, whose […]
Poland’s prime minister, Beata Szydlo, has provoked a wave of indignation with her controversial statement made at the Auschwitz memorial being seen as defending the Polish government’s tough anti-migrant stance. “In today’s restless times, Auschwitz is a great lesson showing that everything must be done to protect the safety and life of one’s citizens,” Szydlo […]
Eleven young people have been detained at the notorious Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp in southern Poland after they slaughtered a sheep, took their clothes off and chained themselves up, all the while giving no indication as to their motive. Young people, aged between 20 and 27, killed a sheep, took their clothes off and then handcuffed […]
