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Holocaust survivor, Yom Kippur War hero Colonel Simcha Applebaum dies at 99

Having moved from the horrors of the Holocaust to dedicating his life to the revival of the Jewish state, his experiences are the essence of the story of the Jewish people in the 20th century.

Simcha Applebaum serving as deputy commander within the 188th Brigade.
A demonstration in support of Palestine and Lebanon marches through Stockholm to Gustav Adolfs Torg, Sweden October 5.

Pro-Palestine camp to take place at site of Jewish WWII deportations

Dr Mohammad Abdulkarim Al-Issa (front), Secretary General of the Muslim World League leads prayers next to the memorial monument in the former German Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz-Birkenau. Those who appear in this photo aren't mentioned in the article.

'Wrong empathy'? Turkish and Arab students say camp visits spark fear for their own safety - study

Activists announce Marlene Engelhorn, heiress from Zyklon-B fortune, as participant in Gaza flotilla, August 2025.

Flotilla activist inherited $27m. from Nazi-profiteering family


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We would have thought that the people of a country like Poland that experienced the horror of living under two totalitarian regimes would know better than to restrict freedom of speech.

Auschwitz death camp survivor Jadwiga Bogucka holds a picture of herself from 1944 in Warsaw

Netanyahu, Polish PM agree to open dialogue on controversial legislation

The bill would make it illegal to attribute complicity in the Holocaust to the “Polish nation.”

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu holds up a document outlining plans for the Auschwitz death camp as he addresses the 64th United Nations General Assembly at U.N. headquarters in New York, September 24, 2009.

PM: Israel won't tolerate Poland 'distorting truth or re-writing history'

The Polish envoy was summoned to the Foreign Ministry to hear Israeli objections.


Poland opens investigation into naked video in death camp's gas chamber

Following protests by Jewish groups and community leaders, the Museum of Contemporary Art pulled the exhibition but then reinstated it, defending it as falling under freedom of artistic expression.

Stutthof concentration camp, Poland

Former Nazi death camp guard, 96, charged as accessory to murder

The man is alleged to have worked as a perimeter guard and in the guard towers as a member of the SS’s Death’s Head division.

Majdanek, the second largest Nazi death camp in Poland

Belgian court sentences Holocaust denier to visit Nazi concentration camps

Louis has also called Israel’s actions in the Gaza Strip a genocide and said Zionism was worse than Nazism.

The Nazi slogan "Arbeit macht frei" (Work sets you free) is pictured at the gates of the former Nazi German concentration and extermination camp Auschwitz-Birkenau in Oswiecim, Poland January 27, 2017.

Holocaust exhibit examines Hollywood documentation of atrocities

Up to six million Jews died during the Holocaust, many sent to death camps such as Dachau, which is profiled in one of the exhibit's videos.

Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust (LAMOTH) has a two-fold mission that has remained constant since its inception in 1961: commemoration and education.

WATCH: British Royals visit former Nazi death camp in Poland

The royal couple also meets with Holocaust survivors at the site.

Prince William, the Duke of Cambridge and Catherine, The Duchess of Cambridge meet with Holocaust survivors during their visit at the museum of former German Nazi concentration camp Stutthof in Sztutowo, Poland July 18, 2017.