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January 28, 2020

Swastikas, 'f--- Jews' graffiti found scrawled inside NYC apartment building amid spike in anti-Semitism

Hours before New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio declared "we need to stamp [anti-Semitism] out, once and for all," authorities were investigating another case of a possible anti-Semitic hate crime.

January 27, 2020

Auschwitz liberation, 75 years later: 5 brilliant minds in the arts who died in the concentration camp

Many artists, from painters to musicians to philosophers, perished in the concentration camp, including prescient visionaries who through their masterpieces documented the horrors as they happened before their tragic deaths.

January 27, 2020

Joy Behar links migrants at US-Mexico border to Holocaust during interview with Holocaust survivors

"The View" co-host Joy Behar invoked the migrants who are in detention centers at the U.S.-Mexico border during an interview with a pair of Holocaust survivors. 

January 27, 2020

France sees rash of anti-Christian acts while anti-Semitism rises, officials say

Anti-Semitic acts increased in France last year by 27%, acts against Muslims inched higher while anti-Christian acts remained stable but highest of all, France’s interior minister said Sunday, denouncing the situation as intolerable.

January 27, 2020

Holocaust survivors mark Auschwitz liberation’s 75th anniversary as their stories grow in relevance

On Monday, the soft-spoken 89-year-old makes another return under the infamous gate – this time to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau. He is joined by nearly 200 other Holocaust survivors.

January 27, 2020

Auschwitz survivor Jerry Wartski shares his story for first time: 'We have to talk'

In the nearly 75 years since the end of World War II, Jerry Wartski never uttered a word about what he lived through after the Nazis invaded his native Poland in September 1939.

January 27, 2020

Holocaust survivor Irene Buchman shares her story of surviving Auschwitz: 'It's heartbreaking for me'

Struggling to contain the tears at times, Irene Buchman recalled the last time she saw her parents and brothers – at Auschwitz-Birkenau, the infamous Nazi death camp.

January 27, 2020

Auschwitz-Birkenau anniversary: A look back at 75 years since liberation

Auschwitz was the largest of the Germans' extermination and death camps and has become a symbol for the terror of the Holocaust. 

January 26, 2020

Dutch premier issues historic apology at Holocaust memorial

Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte apologized Sunday for the failure of officials in the Nazi-occupied country during World War II to do more to prevent the deportation and murder of just over 100,000 Jews.

January 24, 2020

Rabbi Abraham Cooper: Auschwitz mass murders must teach world to reject anti-Semitism and other hatred

I write from Jerusalem, where I attended a ceremony Thursday at which Vice President Mike Pence and other international leaders spoke to mark the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, the hellish Nazi death camp where at least 1.1 million people – about 1 million of them Jews – were murdered.