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# auschwitz - Tuesday 19 May, 2020
Renovation works at Auschwitz unearth hidden tools that may have been used to 'prepare an escape'
The hidden tools would’ve been kept out of sight of the SS guards.
# auschwitz - Monday 27 January, 2020
Auschwitz survivors warn of rising anti-Semitism 75 years on
About 200 camp survivors attended today’s service.
President Higgins says rise of extremism 'deeply worrying' before 75th Holocaust Remembrance Day
Today is the 75th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp in Poland.
# auschwitz - Thursday 17 October, 2019
'Jobpath Macht Frei': Condemnation after 'extremely offensive' sign placed at Cork Welfare office
The slogan “arbeit macht frei” is known for appearing on the entrance of Auschwitz.
# auschwitz - Friday 5 July, 2019
Eva Kor, survivor of Auschwitz doctor Mengele, dies aged 85
Kor passed away in Poland during a trip to the Holocaust site.
# auschwitz - Sunday 15 July, 2018
Tourists charged with stealing bricks from an Auschwitz crematorium
The two Hungarians admitted their actions and were fined.
# auschwitz - Tuesday 13 March, 2018
'The Bookkeeper of Auschwitz' has died before he could be jailed
Oskar Groening was found guilty in 2015 of being an accessory to murder.
# auschwitz - Friday 29 December, 2017
'Bookkeeper of Auschwitz', 96, loses appeal against jail
In 2015, Oskar Groening was found guilty of being an accessory to the murders of 300,000 people.
# auschwitz - Wednesday 29 November, 2017
'Bookkeeper of Auschwitz' (96) deemed fit to serve four-year jail term
During his trial, Groening acknowledged “moral guilt” for the role that he played at the concentration camp.
# auschwitz - Saturday 25 November, 2017
Rare Holocaust-era brooch, gift from husband to his wife in the ghetto, resurfaces in Poland
It’s believed that the original recipient of the brooch, a woman named Hinda Weiksel, died in Auschwitz at the hands of the Nazis.
# auschwitz - Monday 13 November, 2017
Museum removes 'fun' Hitler display after protests
Visitors had been encouraged to take selfies with the waxwork.
# auschwitz - Wednesday 5 July, 2017
US congressman under fire for filming video message inside Auschwitz Memorial
He says in the video: “This is why Homeland Security must be squared away, why our military must be invincible.”
# auschwitz - Saturday 25 March, 2017
Poland charges 11 over bizarre Auschwitz 'slaughtered lamb' protest
The unprecedented stunt was apparently intended as a call for world peace.
# auschwitz - Saturday 4 February, 2017
Personal details of 10,000 Auschwitz staff members published online
It’s part of a project that will name the staff who worked in death and concentration camps set up in occupied Poland.
# auschwitz - Saturday 14 January, 2017
Preserving a dark history - the conservation project at Nazi Germany's most notorious death camp
The aim is not to recreate Auschwitz, but rather to keep it preserved exactly as it was during the dark days of World War II.
# auschwitz - Tuesday 29 November, 2016
German court rejects 95-year-old Auschwitz guard's appeal
Oskar Groening was convicted of being an accessory to 300,000 murders last year.
# auschwitz - Sunday 2 October, 2016
A virtual reality reconstruction of Auschwitz is helping to try Nazi criminals
The headsets help prosecutors see if those accused could have seen what was happening.
# auschwitz - Monday 19 September, 2016
Judge suspends trial of Nazi death camp worker who faces 3,681 counts of accessory to murder
The trial of Hubert Zafke has been repeatedly delayed by procedural wrangling.
# auschwitz - Friday 27 May, 2016
This 94-year-old former Nazi death camp guard will find out today if he's going to prison
Reinhold Hanning faces charges of complicity in 170,000 murders at Auschwitz.
# auschwitz - Saturday 21 May, 2016
70 years after the liberation of Auschwitz, a gold ring and necklace are found hidden in an old mug
One million European Jews died between 1940 and 1945 at the Auschwitz camp in the southern city of Oswiecim.
# auschwitz - Friday 11 March, 2016
A Holocaust survivor has been named the world's oldest man
Israel Kristal survived two world wars and the Holocaust before moving to Israel and opening a sweet shop.
# auschwitz - Saturday 30 January, 2016
Auschwitz survivor makes successful dance show debut at the age of 90
Holocaust survivor Eva Fahidi is currently starring in a sold-out duet in Budapest.
# auschwitz - Monday 18 January, 2016
A 95-year-old former Auschwitz medic is going on trial next month
The man will be standing on at least 3,681 counts of being an accessory to murder.
# auschwitz - Saturday 18 July, 2015
'Old, frail, repentant… But still a criminal: The bookkeeper of Auschwitz should die in prison'
Oskar Gröning looks like he could be a kindly grandfather. He probably is. But he also volunteered to serve in one of the greatest murder camps ever constructed.
# auschwitz - Wednesday 1 July, 2015
Nazi officer: 'I share guilt for the Holocaust, and I can't ask for forgiveness'
German national Oskar Groening, 94, stands accused of 300,000 counts of “accessory to murder”.
# auschwitz - Tuesday 23 June, 2015
Two British teens arrested after allegedly stealing items from Auschwitz
Guards caught the pair yesterday.
# auschwitz - Monday 27 April, 2015
Pictured: The moment a Holocaust survivor shook hands with a former Nazi guard
“He lived a miserable life,” she said,
# auschwitz - Tuesday 21 April, 2015
Trial begins of 'Auschwitz bookkeeper', facing 300k charges of accessory to murder
Oskar Groening has spoken extensively about what he witnessed at the camps.
# auschwitz - Saturday 31 January, 2015
Guinness, Visa debit cards, and Michelle Mulherin: The week in numbers
Plus: How many people use Facebook every month?
# auschwitz - Tuesday 27 January, 2015
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Exactly 70 years ago today, the Nazi death camp in Auschwitz was liberated
The camp was liberated by the Soviet Red Army on 27 January 1945
'We were woken by these piercing screams': Survivors remember the horror of Auschwitz
Between 1940 and 1945, some 1.1 million people, including one million Jews, perished in the twin death camps of Auschwitz-Birkenau.
# auschwitz - Monday 26 January, 2015
Steven Spielberg warns of 'demons' faced by Jewish people
The director was speaking to a group of Holocaust survivors in Poland today.
# auschwitz - Wednesday 21 January, 2015
These Holocaust memorials are banned in Munich. Why? Because of Jewish opposition
The ‘Stolperstein’ project has been ongoing for 20 years.
# auschwitz - Saturday 20 September, 2014
Eamon Dunphy, Trinity College, and Auschwitz: The week in numbers
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# auschwitz - Wednesday 17 September, 2014
93-year-old former Auschwitz guard charged with 300,000 crimes
Oskar Groening is accused of managing money and property stolen from victims.
# auschwitz - Thursday 19 June, 2014
89-year-old man arrested in the US for alleged war crimes as a teenage guard at Auschwitz
The man admits joining the Waffen SS when he was 17 but denies being an Auschwitz guard.
# auschwitz - Tuesday 18 March, 2014
Police arrest 93-year-old Nazi concentration camp medic
The man worked at the Auschwitz death camp, and faces multiple charges of aiding and abetting murder.
# auschwitz - Friday 21 February, 2014
Three suspected Auschwitz guards --- aged 88, 92 and 94 --- arrested in Germany
The men have undergone medical tests, and a judge confirmed their fitness to be detained in a prison hospital.
# auschwitz - Saturday 26 October, 2013
These are the most inappropriate selfies in selfie history
From the ‘nuclear disaster’ selfie, to the ‘in jail’ selfie.
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WHILE BOOKSHOPS AROUND the country have had to shut their doors in recent months as a result of the Covid-19 restrictions, many operators have turned their focus to online sales.
A huge demand for reading materials from stuck-at-home bookworms and stressed parents has given shops a lifeline.
Some independent bookstores in Ireland have been online for years, but others have had to develop websites in recent months as they closed up their stores.
TheJournal.ie spoke to some bookshop owners about how they have been managing and all noted that they were blown away by the demand for online orders during the shutdown.
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