Auschwitz

Holocaust survivor becomes internet star after using TikTok to tell younger generations about WWII atrocities

Tova Freidman has over 500,000 followers on TikTok, and her videos have had 8.8 million likes and 75 million views since they first went live a year and a half ago. Tova Friedman/TikTok

Using the social media platform to teach young people who don’t want to read books, Tova Friedman said: “Here they are, listening.”

Making movies: catching up with TFN’s Dagmara Leszkowicz

In this episode of The Debrief, we hear about plans to make a film based on the life of the Midwife of Auschwitz, Stanisława Leszczyńska.

The Eleventh Commandment – Polin commemorates 80 years since the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising

In this week’s episode we are going to be hearing from two guests from the Polin Museum of the History of Polish Jews about a number of events taking place throughout the year.

Poland remembers Holocaust victims

Survivors of Auschwitz-Birkenau have gathered to commemorate the 78th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi German death camp in the final months of World War Two.

Chilling new book reveals meticulous planning behind Auschwitz death camp

The Polish-English book “Auschwitz Bauleitung. Designing a Death Camp” sets out in shocking detail how the full potential of German technology and industry took part in building the death apparatus that claimed the lives of 1.3 million victims.

Today’s news round up in Poland

Start your day with a summary of today’s top stories from Poland’s leading news sites.

Extraordinary life of heroine who delivered 3,000 babies in Auschwitz death camp to be told in new feature film

Written by Maria Stachurska, director Mariusz Malec, and journalist and author Dagmara Leszkowicz, the film is based on the real life story of Stanisława Leszczyńska whose actions helped save newborns from immediate extermination.

TikTok star teaches millions of Gen Z followers about the Holocaust in series of short films from Auschwitz

Singer and dancer Montana Tucker was spurred into action after telling her followers  about her grandparents who survived the Holocaust and being shocked at the anti-Semitic reaction.

True story of man who volunteered for Auschwitz to save his pregnant wife turned into haunting new book

Entitled Ocalona z Auschwitz [Saved from Auschwitz], award-winning author Nina Majewska-Brown said she was inspired to write the novelisation after being contacted by the couple’s granddaughter who wanted the story to reach a wider audience.

Holocaust survivors publish cookbook of recipes that helped them endure horrors of Auschwitz

Entitled Honey Cakes and Latkes: Recipes from the Old World, the cookbook is not about what prisoners were forced to eat in the camp but rather an affirmation of life, before and after the camp, told through the unifying medium of food recipes.

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