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Stanisława Leszczyńska's heroic legacy at Auschwitz is a testament to faith, courage and humanity in the face of unimaginable horrors.

"The Zone of Interest" is one of the most powerful films I have seen, not in spite of its mendacity, but because of it. The film focuses entirely on the family of concentration camp commandant Rudolf Höss as they go about their daily lives in the shadow of Auschwitz.

Holocaust denial and the comparison of Israeli Zionism to Nazism has rapidly become a powerful strategic communication tool in the hands of both state and non-state actors within the context of the perennial Arab-Israeli conflict.

Hamas is — while taking into account the wild disparity in the sheer geographical and numerical extent of their crimes — qualitatively even more anti-Semitic than the Nazis were.

I recently discovered that the grandfather of a colleague survived the Auschwitz Death Camp. On the same day, I was reminded about the various persecutions within China from a member of Australia’s Falun Gong community. Both, coming so close upon the heels of my attendance [...]

Those who have survived battle find it hard to readjust to ‘normality’. If you read the Lord of the Rings trilogy or saw the film version, you will know that at the end, the four brave hobbits have returned to the Shire. They share a [...]

The first little piggy built his house of straw. I got into a conversation with a young man in a coffee shop today. I was drinking my coffee while mulling over the topic of nihilism for this article. I wanted a young man’s view­ -- [...]

In April 1942, Lale Sokolov, a Slovakian Jew, is forcibly transported to the concentration camps at Auschwitz-Birkenau. When his captors discover that he speaks several languages, he is put to work as a Tätowierer (the German word for tattooist), tasked with permanently marking his fellow [...]

I grew up with a victim mentality. Nobody called it that at the time. But as I look back, that’s what it was. You see, I was a refugee from communist Eastern Europe -- from Hungary. I grew up among other refugees, among victims. Victims [...]

Seventy five years ago, on the 27th January 1945, soldiers from the 322nd Rifle Division of the Red Army liberated the Nazi death camp of Auschwitz. Former Soviet officer Ivan Martynushkin recalls seeing the prisoners for the first time: It was hard to watch them. [...]