insert_link World World Marks International Holocaust Remembrance Day The entrance to the Auschwitz-Birkenau Death Camp. Photo Credit: Shutterstock International Holocaust Remembrance Day is being observed worldwide, marking the 81st anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz concentration camp. In the United Kingdom, King Charles III and Queen Camilla are hosting a reception at Buckingham Palace to honour Holocaust survivors and their families. Among the attendees is 86-year-old Peter Lantos, a former prisoner at Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, who shared […] today27 January, 2026
insert_link World Descendants of Holocaust survivors explain why they are replicating Auschwitz tattoos on their own bodies Orly Weintraub Gilad with her grandfather’s Auschwitz number, A-12599, tattooed on her arm. John Jeffay for The Conversation Alice Bloch, University of Manchester Rony Cohen doesn’t remember any particular moment when she first became aware of the number tattooed on her grandmother’s arm. It was just always there. Cohen says she felt as if she had experienced the Holocaust herself, in a different cycle of her own life. It featured […] today26 January, 2024
