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Polish academics face funding cuts for criticising Holocaust narrative

Polish academics have come under fire and faced threats of funding cuts for criticising the role of ethnic Poles in helping Jews escape Nazi persecution.

Culture news

Culture Re-View: Honouring the man who inspired 'Schindler's List'

8 May 1962: Oskar Schindler is honoured in the Avenue of the Righteous

Poland

Warsaw Ghetto Uprising commemorated on 80th anniversary

At a poignant and solemn ceremony, the German, Polish and Israeli presidents came together in the Polish capital to commemorate 80 years since the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.

World News

Thousands join Holocaust remembrance march at Auschwitz

Official observances started Monday evening with a ceremony at the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial in Jerusalem as six survivors, including one of the few remaining survivors of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, lit torches in memory of the six million people killed.

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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.

Culture news

Warsaw museum displays rare artefacts from World War II Jewish ghetto

An exhibition at the Kordegarda gallery, presenting artefacts found during excavations in the Warsaw ghetto, comes just in time for the 80th anniversary of the outbreak of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.

Hungary

Budapest remembers victims of the Holocaust in 'March of the Living'

Thousands took to the streets in Hungary's capital, including survivors and Righteous Among Nations award-winners, to pay tribute to Hungarian Jews killed in the Holocaust.

Culture news

TikTok is the new place to learn about the Holocaust

Aron Goodman took to TikTok in a bid to combat antisemitism, with the help of his 85-year-old grandmother Tova Friedman. The response to her personal testimony has been incredible.

Culture news

Culture Re-View: A look back at this day in history

The beginning and the end of great thinkers. We take a look at today's significance for three revolutionaries: Karl Marx, Anne Frank and Malcolm X.

21 February 2023

Germany

Germany remembers the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau camp

In Germany's parliament, politicians remembered the 78th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp by focusing on Holocaust victims targeted on the grounds of their sexuality.

27 January 2023

Culture news

Hear the Holocaust survivors sharing stories to keep the horrors alive

A dwindling number of people are alive to recount the horrors of Nazis concentration camps. Euronews Culture met with some survivors who have dedicated their lives to making sure their voices and stories are heard to ensure their past is never forgotten.

27 January 2023

Ukraine

'Never again': Ukraine's Jewish community marks Holocaust Memorial Day

“I never had to run away from Ukrainians, but I helped my entire community flee Ukraine because of Russian bombs.”

27 January 2023

Europe News

#LastSeen: Holocaust researchers appeal for Nazi deportation images

Historians want to collect, analyse, and publish photographic evidence of the forced removal of victims from German towns and cities well before they reached a camp.

27 January 2023

Slovakia

'Forgotten' Holocaust heroes help Slovakia come to terms with its past

Rudolf Vrba and Alfred Wetzler were the first Jews to escape from Auschwitz and warn the world of concentration camp genocide.

27 January 2023

United Kingdom

'Biggest crime since Holocaust': British MP suspended over COVID tweet

Conservative politician Andrew Bridgen had posted a series of comments on social media which his own party has described as "misinformation."

11 January 2023

Germany

Ex Nazi concentration camp secretary guilty of accessory to murders

Former Nazi concentration camp secretary, Irmgard Furchner, 97, has been found guilty in a German court.

20 December 2022

Culture news

Czech museum to return Beethoven score saved from Nazis to its owners

The autograph of the 4th movement for strings in B-flat Major, op. 130, a highly valued late quartet by the German composer, will go back to the Petscheks, once the richest family in pre-World War II Czechoslovakia.

4 December 2022

France

Holocaust denier from France arrested after two years on the run

Vincent Reynouard had reportedly been living in the UK and working as a private tutor.

16 November 2022

Sweden

Far-right Sweden Democrats official suspended after Anne Frank remarks

In an Instagram posting that has now been deleted, the party's head of television programming Rebecka Fallenkvist called Frank “immoral”, among other things, according to Swedish media.

16 October 2022

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Arnold Schwarzenegger visits Auschwitz

Film icon Arnold Schwarzenegger visited the site of the German Nazi death camp of Auschwitz on Wednesday.

28 September 2022