Grzegorz Braun has a history of hostility to Jews, from extinguishing Chanukah candles in the Polish parliament to claiming the gas chambers were “fake”
By Jamie Shapiro
By Tanya Gold
Claude Lanzmann’s epic reshaped how the Holocaust is remembered. He built his film not on archives but on silence – the terrible absence left by the dead
‘Unmistakably anti-Jewish sentiment is spilling from the lips of people who normally think of themselves as kind and decent,’ the former PM said
By Lorin Bell-Cross
The mock-up of the concentration camp entrance appeared on a float organised by a Catholic school in Pennsylvania
By JC Reporter
Manoj Sen made the comments just three days after the October 7 massacre
The most celebrated Shoah fictions focus on the rare rescuers, fictional non-Jewish victims or sympathetic perpetrators. But you cannot love Jews if you refuse to understand what happened to them, and why
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The group attempted to reason with staff at the death camp, but were forced to pack their flags away
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By Jake Wallis Simons
When commentators make these false comparisons, they’re showing us who they really are
By Rob Rinder
I tried to stay offline. Ten minutes later, I was watching a video of a dancing dachshund in a ruff
The crowds, including Israeli President Isaac Herzog, silently walked through the former death camp to commemorate the 80th anniversary of its liberation
By Jacob Jaffa
Polish Museum defended the removal of Israeli flags bearing hostage ribbons from Bushey Synagogue tour group
By Jane Prinsley
The nation’s president, Michael Higgins, has previously faced criticism over remarks linking Israel-Gaza conflict to Holocaust remembrance
By Ellie Grant
In his address at the 80th anniversary ceremony at the death camp, the Jewish leader references October 7 in a powerful wake-up call
By Daniel Ben-David
When Fania Fainer was in the camp, a friend made her a birthday gift that she managed to preserve
By Heidi Kingstone
His Majesty also went to a community centre inspired by his conversation with a Holocaust survivor, which sits just miles from the site of the camp