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Poland praises passage of UN Holocaust denial resolution

Krzysztof Szczerski, the Polish ambassador to the UN, told the gathering that "apart from the Jewish nation, it has been the Polish people, who have taken upon themselves a special duty to help preserve the remembrance of the Holocaust." Wojciech Olkuśnik/PAP

The United Nations' General Assembly, on Thursday, unanimously passed a resolution on combating Holocaust denial on social media, along with amendments proposed by Poland.

Israeli FM condemns anti-semitic graffiti at Auschwitz museum

Israeli Foreign Minister Yair Lapid has denounced anti-semitic graffiti recently discovered at the Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and Museum.

Birkenau camp buildings sprayed with anti-Semitic texts

Spray-painted anti-Semitic texts were discovered on nine barrack buildings at the former German Auschwitz II-Birkenau camp, the Auschwitz Museum announced on Tuesday.

Poland protests Irish broadcaster's "Polish concentration camp" misnomer

Poland's ambassador to Ireland has protested against Irish national broadcaster RTE's use of the term "Polish concentration camp” in a feature about the WWII Nazi-German Stutthof death camp, which was located in northern Poland.

Former death camp secretary who skipped trial is caught after police launched manhunt

The 96-year-old woman who went on the run after getting in a taxi to stand trial for WWII war crimes has been captured. 

Tarnów woman dubbed ‘Guardian Angel of Auschwitz’ to be made saint for helping death camp inmates

Deported to the camp on 27 April 1942, Stefania Łącka “reached the peaks of heroism" trying to support and save others from death.

Polish embassy protests against 'Polish concentration camp' misnomer

The Polish embassy in Rome has protested against the false phrase 'Polish concentration camp,' used by an Italian daily in reference to the German concentration camp Stutthof.

Ex-Auschwitz inmate can seek justice over "Polish death camp" misnomer

A former Auschwitz inmate will be able to seek justice before a Polish court over a German website's use of the term "Polish death camp" in a 2017 report on his sister's death in the World War II Treblinka Nazi extermination camp in German-occupied Poland.

Harrowing new book tells extraordinary tale of women who set up illegal scout group in WWII death camp

‘The Girl Scouts from Ravensbrück’ by author Anna Kwiatkowska-Bieda describes how, despite so many adversities, the threat of extermination and undergoing appalling experiments, a group of Polish female political prisoners formed the clandestine ‘Mury’ Scout Troop which operated in secret until the camp was liberated.

Woman, 95, charged with complicity in murder of 10,000 during Holocaust

German prosecutors said that the 95-year-old who has not been named was a stenographer and a secretary to the commander of Stutthof concentration camp in what was then Nazi-occupied Poland.

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