As the world commemorates the 80th anniversary of the discovery of Auschwitz-Birkenau, Poland continues to debate its place in the nation's memory.

The extermination of Jews by Nazi Germany during World War II took place largely in occupied Poland. But for many Poles, Holocaust remembrance remains a challenge.In the center of a forest 120 kilometers northeast of Warsaw,

It is getting harder and harder to hear about the Holocaust from people who lived through it. In Gulfport Sunday night, there was a rare opportunity to hear about Nazi-occupied Poland from a Jewish woman.

That creates risks: the Holocaust didn’t begin with mass murder. The dehumanization of Jews progressed gradually from public exclusion to eventual internment to finally extermination. Millions of regular Germans—and Europeans more broadly—facilitated or silently accepted these actions.

During this week of International Holocaust Remembrance, Resistance: They Fought Back, an important new Holocaust documentary is on PBS. A discussion I led is on YouTube

After a misstep, Warsaw promises not to arrest the leaders of the Jewish state.

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Britain's Britain's King Charles III visited Auschwitz Monday on the 80th anniversary of the death camp's liberation.

Gut’s grandmother survived Auschwitz. In 2023, Weisz-Gut moved to the town where the concentration camp is located.

On Monday, King Charles traveled to Poland for Holocaust Memorial Day, which this year marks the 80 th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz. Prince William and Kate Middleton will attend a remembrance service in London later today, Kensington Palace has confirmed.

Chana Widawski, a social worker and the child of Holocaust survivors, shares wisdom gained from a bike trip across Poland, the birthplace of her father who survived 11 concentration camps