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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.

Poland marks anniversary of Auschwitz liberation in virtual ceremony

To commemorate Holocaust Remembrance Day on the 76th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi German death camp Auschwitz, a virtual ceremony was held due to coronavirus restrictions.

ETSY bans ‘Camp Auschwitz’ T-shirt after MAGA mob member seen wearing same during Capitol riots

The T-shirt, which shows a skull and crossbones alongside the ‘Camp Auschwitz’ slogan, was listed for sale on Etsy’s marketplace and is similar to one worn by a rioter who stormed the Capitol in Washington D.C. last week.

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Hidden railway track and wagon wheels found at ‘Hitler bunker’ reignite hopes of Amber Room discovery

The discovery was made at the site of heavy concrete bunkers in the Warmia and Mazury province that was the headquarters of Hitler’s German Army Supreme Command, just a few kilometres from Hitler’s Wolf’s Lair bunker complex.

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