Auschwitz

Europe News

Survivors warn of rising antisemitism on Auschwitz liberation day

Politicians were asked not to speak at this year's event, as it could be the last time survivors gather on 27 January, the date when the Soviets liberated the Nazi death camp in 1945.

27/01/2025

Culture news

Anti-extremism centre opens in house of Auschwitz commandant

The family home next to Auschwitz – immortalized on screen in last year’s Oscar-winning film ‘The Zone of Interest’ - is opening its doors to the public for the first time. This coincides with an alarming international survey examining Holocaust knowledge and awareness.

27/01/2025

Europe News

Holocaust commemorated as Jewish groups warn of rising antisemitism

On International Holocaust Remembrance Day, on 27 January, people remember the six million Jews and millions of other victims of Nazi persecution during WWII.

27/01/2025

Europe News

World leaders commemorate victims of Nazi Germany

World leaders will be attending the ceremony at Auschwitz on Monday including German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, French President Emmanuel Macron, and Britain’s King Charles III.

26/01/2025

Europe News

Work under way to mark 80 years since liberation of Auschwitz

More than 1.1 million people were murdered at Auschwitz and historians say that most of them, about one million, were Jewish but the victims also included Poles, Roma and Soviet prisoners of war.

25/01/2025

Europe News

Poland says Netanyahu won't be arrested if he attends Auschwitz event

Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk says Israel's Benjamin Netanyahu will not be detained despite the International Criminal Court (ICC) arrest warrant.

10/01/2025

Europe News

Poland's Duda says Netanyahu should be free to attend Auschwitz event

The Polish president has asked the government to not arrest Israel's Benjamin Netanyahu under an ICC warrant if he enters the country.

09/01/2025

Culture news

Film of the Week: 'Treasure' - Stephen Fry can't redeem this misfire

This frustratingly aimless road movie attempts to delve into hereditary trauma and the legacy of the Holocaust. Its well-meaning efforts are undercut by a script that makes the central protagonist completely insufferable.

14/06/2024

Culture news

Berlinale 2024 review: 'Treasure'

How could such promising material go so wrong?

23/02/2024

Culture news

Nazism seen from the inside by Jonathan Glazer

Auschwitz, 1944. In "The Zone of Interest", Jonathan Glazer takes us into the heart of the family life of the camp commandant at Auschwitz. A chilling, contemporary look at the banality of horror. The film is out now. A shock. Review and interview with director Jonathan Glazer.

01/02/2024

World News

The week in pictures: Holocaust Memorial Day, heatwave hits Spain

The best photos from across Europe this week.

28/01/2024

Tech News

Elon Musk visits Auschwitz-Birkenau Nazi German death camp

Musk has faced criticism for subscribing to an antisemitic conspiracy theory and allowing hate messages on his social media platform X

22/01/2024

Poland

Companies pull ads from Polish TV station after Auschwitz comments

TV Republika are in hot water after commentators on the station said 'migrants should be sent to Auschwitz or be branded'.

05/01/2024

Poland

Euroviews. Eight decades since the Warsaw Uprising, let's celebrate the heroines

Regardless of gender, faith, or creed, freedom can only come with equality. When we fight together, we are stronger than even the most nefarious of history’s evils, Revital Yakin Krakovsky writes.

18/04/2023

Culture news

WWE gets slammed for use of Auschwitz image to promote wrestling event

Although some wrestling fans immediately noticed the photo, it drew more attention after the Auschwitz Memorial Museum posted on Twitter on Wednesday that using the image "is hard to call an editing mistake".

08/04/2023

Travel News

Ukraine: This British man says he is flying into the warzone 'for fun'

Miles Routledge is at it again. The 22-year-old Brit is on his way to Ukraine, having previously travelled to Afghanistan just before the Taliban took power.

25/02/2022

Poland

Respects paid across Europe as Holocaust Remembrance Day is observed

January 27 marks the International Day of Holocaust Remembrance, an occasion to commemorate the victims of the Nazi German regime.

27/01/2022

Poland

Tourist arrested for giving Nazi salute outside gates of Auschwitz

The 29-year-old woman was fined after telling prosecutors that her gesture was a "stupid joke".

24/01/2022

Poland

Anti-Semitic graffiti found at Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp

Nine barracks were spray-painted with anti-Semitic phrases in both English and German, the memorial said.

06/10/2021

World News

EU unveils new strategy to tackle rising antisemitism in Europe

"Europe can only prosper when its Jewish communities feel safe and prosper," said Commission President Ursula von der Leyen.

05/10/2021