Auschwitz did not occur in a vacuum.

Forman's mother died in Auschwitz in 1943.

Auschwitz concentration camp gate by Tbertor1 on Flickr

Elie Wiesel, survivor of Auschwitz and Buchenwald and a Nobel Peace Laureate, once said Let us remember the heroes of Warsaw, the martyrs of Treblinka, the children of Auschwitz.

Auschwitz I, the original camp, became the administrative center for the whole complex.

The Germans, as one quip puts it, will never forgive the Jews for Auschwitz.

Because German comedians who made Jewish jokes in 1935 are not innocent of Auschwitz.

MarkD, whose grandmother was murdered in Auschwitz, in his blog post presents a different opinion

The post trivializes in the most hideous way the sign over the gate of Auschwitz.

Or, as the psychiatrist Zvi Rex famously quipped, Germans will never forgive the Jews for Auschwitz.

When I see Auschwitz camp, it gives me shivers... Those who stole it must be insane.

January 27 is the day we remember the Holocaust, through the commemoration of the liberation of Auschwitz.

Mindful of Ypres, Warsaw, or Stalingrad, not to mention Auschwitz and Treblinka, many regard this as a good thing.

But Kouchner himself has often said that the murder of his Russian Jewish grandparents in Auschwitz inspired his humanitarian interventionism.

She went to Auschwitz when she was 15 years old, and her brother was eight, and the parents were lost.

What Forsytes, what Thibaults, or Rougon Macquarts, or even Bolkonskys or Rostovs are even conceivable after Verdun, Auschwitz, or Hiroshima?

Thus, Auschwitz is dismissed as a detail of history, in the telling phrase of the French politician Jean Marie Le Pen.

Seventy years after the liberation of Auschwitz, can the bilateral relationship withstand the rising tide of anti Israel sentiment in Europe?

The event took place on the eve of the 70th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz, German Nazi concentration camp

My mother was a Czechoslovak Jew who was deported to Auschwitz by the same Nazi regime that once occupied my ambassadorial home.

Lantos knows about moral compasses as a boy, he was rescued by Raoul Wallenberg from being deported to Auschwitz by the Nazis in Budapest.

In 1947, Poland founded a museum on the site of Auschwitz I and II, and in 1979, it was named a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

Contrary to what the Nobel Prize winning author José Saramago once said, the Israeli army s attacks in Gaza are not comparable in any way to Auschwitz.

Next, Tudor headed a PRM delegation to lay a wreath at Auschwitz, where the one time Holocaust denier declared that Jews had been exterminated in Romania.

It is a hatred that did not disappear with Nazism, and that one can still, 65 years after the liberation of Auschwitz, glimpse in terrifying manifestations.

And she told me this, she said, We were in the train going to Auschwitz, and I looked down and saw my brother's shoes were missing.

Contrary to what the Nobel Prize winning author José Saramago once said, the Israeli army s attacks in Gaza are not comparable in any way to Auschwitz.

Last Friday morning the sign 'Arbeit Macht Frei' ('Work Sets You Free') was stolen from the gate of former Nazi death camp in Auschwitz, near Krakow.

Netanyahu s own insistence on ironclad security arrangements is a euphemism for an Israeli presence in the Jordan Valley and no return to the Auschwitz borders of 1967.

Merkel , who will mark 70th anniversary of Auschwitz liberation today, will surely appreciate Tsipras remembering Greece anti Nazi fighters Damian Mac Con Uladh ( damomac) January 26, 2015

What he doesn t understand is that the memory of Auschwitz is also the memory of the Battle of Britain, the bombing of Dresden, the occupation of Paris, and the Warsaw uprising.

For, if it were true, any and all measures taken against Muslims, however brutal, would be justified, and Israel would indeed be a frontline state, resisting Islamofacism to prevent another Auschwitz.

In the words of the Polish historian and statesman Bronislaw Geremek, the liberation of Auschwitz on January 27, 1945, has to be seen as one of the founding moments of today s Europe.

German MP Ozcan Mutlu, who is of Turkish origin, reported that he received a message telling him it's time to get Auschwitz, Buchenwald, etc working again that's where you filthy Turks belong!

Bernard Kouchner, the founder of Doctors Without Borders, wanted the world to intervene in Nigeria in 1970, because he saw the killing of Ibos by Nigerian troops as a genocidal echo of Auschwitz.

A recent article on the Croatian news site Portal Novosti describes the history of the camp, bearing the chilling headline Sisak Also Had Its Mengele (referring to the Auschwitz concentration camp's infamous physician).

SALZBURG As war loomed over Kosovo ten years ago, Germany s then foreign minister, Joschka Fischer, explained that the principle that had always governed his involvement in politics was Never again war never again Auschwitz!

Then, in Auschwitz, the Pope said I speak in the name of everyone whose rights go unrecognized and violated anywhere in the world, I speak because I am bound, we are all bound, by truth.

Samuel Pisar, an Auschwitz survivor, said, and I'll quote him, The Holocaust teaches us that nature, even in its cruelest moments, is benign in comparison with man, when he loses his moral compass and his reason.

She told me this. She said, I walked out of Auschwitz into life and I made a vow. And the vow was, I will never say anything that couldn't stand as the last thing I ever say.

Ethnic cleansing and violence in Kosovo, however, soon made it clear to him that there were moments when one had to choose between those two imperatives a new Auschwitz sometimes could be prevented only by means of war.

Two days ago, the Polish equivalent of Digg published a link to a site featuring copies of the sign available for sale to support the museum Auschwitz Birkenau Memorial and Museum is under financial crisis and needs support.

We must not stay indifferent to such phenomena because if our society allows the distortion of the historical truth and memory of the Holocaust, it would have been as if we reopened the gate of Auschwitz to new crimes against humanity.

Meanwhile, his housing minister, Uri Ariel (himself a settler and a member of the annexationist Jewish Home party), unleashes a new wave of settlement expansion that threatens to link the 1967 border with the Jordan Valley, thus bisecting Palestinian territory. Netanyahu s own insistence on ironclad security arrangements is a euphemism for an Israeli presence in the Jordan Valley and no return to the Auschwitz borders of 1967.