🇺🇦 Meet Yevheniia! She was our volunteer from Ukraine at the Museum in 2018–2019. 👉 How does she remember her volunteering and what path did her life take after the stay with us? Find out in her story below 👇

The Auschwitz Jewish Center Foundation joins the people of Israel in welcoming home the hostages who have returned to their families — and in mourning with those whose loved ones return only for burial. Each life restored is a triumph of faith and endurance. Each loss is a wound

Karoline Preisler The Auschwitz Jewish Center Foundation commends Karoline Preisler, a German lawyer and activist whose quiet courage has become a beacon of moral clarity in an age of confusion. From Berlin’s streets to global headlines, Preisler has stood, often alone, against hatred,

The hostages’ return is not the end of a tragedy but a test of conscience. When truth is blurred and hate disguised as justice, civilization trembles. Memory must be more than mourning; it must be moral action. | Opinion by Jack Simony 🎗️ jpost.com/opinion/articl…

Auschwitz Jewish Center Foundation & NYC DOE Launch Student Fellowship to Combat Hate & Antisemitism finance.yahoo.com/news/auschwitz…

AJCF | Kristallnacht: 87 Years Later Eighty-seven years ago tonight, the glass shattered. Synagogues burned. Jewish homes and shops were destroyed. Thirty thousand men were arrested simply for being Jews. Kristallnacht, the Night of Broken Glass, was not spontaneous. It was what

🇵🇱 Polish Independence Day 🇵🇱 Today, Poland marks its rebirth as a free nation. For the Auschwitz Jewish Center Foundation, rooted in both Oświęcim and New York, this day carries deep meaning. The freedom restored to Poland after years of division and occupation reminds us how

🇺🇸 Veterans Day 🇺🇸 Today we honor all who have served in the United States Armed Forces — men and women who stood for freedom, defended democracy, and safeguarded human dignity. At the Auschwitz Jewish Center Foundation, we pay special tribute to the American soldiers who

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🇺🇦 Meet Illia! He was our volunteer from Ukraine at the Museum in 2019–2020. Although his volunteering year was interrupted by the pandemic, it was still a time full of learning, friendship, and meaningful experiences. Illia learned Polish, got to know everyday life in Oświęcim,

Over 8,000 Jews lived in Oświęcim the town of Auschwitz before WWII. The Auschwitz Jewish Center has restored one of their tombstones, honoring a vibrant community nearly wiped out. In a moment of rising antisemitism this restoration is not just memory — it’s resistance.

Congratulations to Julie Menin. At a time when confronting hate, strengthening communities, and defending human dignity are urgent priorities, her leadership stands out as exactly what New York needs. #Leadership #CommunityStrength #StandAgainstHate #NYC Julie Menin

90 years ago today, Thanksgiving, on 27 November 1935 — this French Jewish girl — Arlette Kohn, was born in Paris. She made it to age 6, just a month shy from her 7th birthday. Arlette was abducted to Auschwitz from on 17 August 1942. She was murdered in a gas chamber after

“Love the film, Scarlett, but we’re not so keen on the whole Holocaust thing. Can we have the character lie about something else?” That’s what one of Scarlett Johansson’s financial backers told her just a month before filming Eleanor the Great began. In her directorial debut,

Ireland is poised to erase the name of the only Jewish person it has ever honored. Chaim Herzog was Irish born. He fought the Nazis and helped liberate Bergen Belsen. His name is now on trial in Dublin for events he never lived to see. When a democracy considers erasing its only

I am glad that sense has prevailed and the motion to rename Herzog Park will be withdrawn. But I am deeply saddened by the hurt that the Dublin City Council motion has caused the small, but proud, Jewish community in Ireland. I have engaged with the Irish Jewish community over

Newly declassified files from President Javier Milei’s massive evidence release reveal a chilling truth: Josef Mengele : the “Angel of Death” of Auschwitz lived openly and comfortably in Argentina after the war. A man who selected Jews for death and tortured children in

“We analysed Hitler’s DNA – and what we discovered made us gasp.” Reasonably careful explanation here, noting the extraordinary findings, but avoiding simplistic conclusions. historyextra.com/period/second-…

In his 1946 book Hitler’s Professors, linguist Max Weinreich documented how the German university—then the pride of Western scholarship—fell with terrifying speed into the service of Nazi ideology. Within months of Hitler’s rise to power, professors across disciplines issued

An Open Letter to Guinness World Records Seeking Clarification To the leadership of Guinness World Records, Recent reports allege that your organization informed Israel’s kidney donation charity Matnat Chaim that Guinness is no longer accepting or reviewing submissions from