Italian composer Francesco Lotoro reconstructs music from concentration camps

PR Francesco Lotoro gives the music of the holocaust back to the Jewish people Yet, at an astonishing concert to be held in Israel next month, people will, for the first time, hear music composed more than 70 years ago by prisoners in concentration camps, forced labour and prisoner of war camps – both civilian […]

Holocaust Memorial Day: Concentration camp survivor has an important message

Zigi Shipper, 88, who was born in Poland, was taken to a concentration camp at the age of 14 because of his Jewish background. He has spoken to Express.co.uk about his time at Auschwitz and Stutthof concentrations camps, and the horrors he witnessed there.  Zigi has an important message on Holocaust Memorial Day, which falls […]

Market concentration can benefit consumers, but needs scrutiny

WHEN Amazon announced in June that it would buy Whole Foods, an upmarket grocer, for $ 13.7bn, other firms shuddered. The spread of Amazonian tentacles is worrying to those wary of concentrated corporate power. But shoppers entering their local Whole Foods these days find oddly low prices alongside the new stacks of Echoes, Amazon’s voice-activated […]

‘Historical day for Roma dignity’: Czech govt to shut down pig farm on concentration camp site

The Czech government has moved to buy and remove a pig farm near Prague, located on the site of a former concentration camp where several hundred Romani people died during the Nazi occupation. The decision comes after mass anti-racism protests. AGPI, the firm that owns the controversial pig breeding facility, announced on Monday it had […]

Pope Francis describes some of Europe’s refugee centers as ‘concentration camps’

Rome (AFP) – Pope Francis on Saturday described some of Europe’s refugee centres as “concentration camps”, as he paid tribute to an unknown Christian woman slain for her faith in front of her Muslim husband. “These refugee camps — so many are concentration camps, crowded with people… because international accords seem more important than human […]