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Auschwitz museum criticizes use of death camp in politics after ruling party uses it in political ad

The Auschwitz-Birkenau memorial museum has denounced a political spot by Poland’s ruling party that uses the theme of the Nazi German extermination camp to discourage participation in an upcoming anti-government march

The Independent UK

Auschwitz Museum condemns Polish party video using images of camp

A political video by Poland's ruling nationalist party that uses images of Nazi Germany's Auschwitz death camp is an insult to those who lost their lives there, the museum that preserves the site said on Wednesday.

Reuters

Cannes 2023 week two roundup – still a country for old men?

Films from Scorsese, Loach, Wim Wenders and more are some of the best in this year’s competition, but ahead of them all is Jonathan Glazer’s mighty Auschwitz drama The Zone of Interest

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The Zone of Interest: Jonathan Glazer’s film based loosely on Martin Amis’s novel is beautiful and terrible

The banal, systematic horror of Auschwitz is dealt with expertly by the English director

Evening Standard

Nazis and normality: UK directors unsettle Cannes with films tackling ‘unseen’ evil

Steve McQueen and Jonathan Glazer separately confront the Holocaust with themes prompted by a resurgence of the far right

The Guardian - UK

Jonathan Glazer rocks Cannes with a chilling Holocaust drama from a different perspective

Jonathan Glazer’s “The Zone of Interest,” a chilling Auschwitz-set drama shot through “a 21st century lens,” has delivered the Cannes Film Festival’s first critical sensation by approaching the Holocaust from an unlikely perspective

The Independent UK

Ice cream van sparks outrage after setting up outside Auschwitz

Museum officials urge local authority to stop ice cream van from trading near historical site

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The Zone of Interest review – Jonathan Glazer adapts Martin Amis’s chilling Holocaust drama

Focusing on the everyday domesticity of the Auschwitz commandant’s family might only reflect the horror indirectly, but the film pulls the banality of evil into pin-sharp focus

The Guardian - UK

Auschwitz museum begins emotional work of conserving 8,000 shoes of murdered children

The Auschwitz-Birkenau state museum has launched a two-year effort to preserve 8,000 shoes that belonged to children before they were murdered at the Nazi German death camp

The Independent UK

Rapper Meek Mill vows to fight antisemitism after visit to Auschwitz

Musician took part in remembrance march with billionaire Robert Kraft, who Mill said supported him at a ‘very high level’

The Guardian - US

Auschwitz Museum issues warning after tourist’s ‘disrespectful’ photo

The Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and Museum has subsequently issued a warning that visitors should ‘respect’ the site

The Independent UK

Auschwitz museum urges visitors to respect site after woman's photo sparks fury

Last week a photo of a woman posing taken and shared by Maria Murphy at the Auschwitz concentration camp museum went viral, causing huge amounts of outrage on Twitter

Daily Mirror

Thousands join Holocaust remembrance march at Auschwitz

Thousands of people have gathered at the former site of Auschwitz for the March of the Living

The Independent UK

Woman poses for photo with head back 'like a model' at Auschwitz Nazi death camp

The shameless woman is seen posing on the railway track in front of Auschwitz Birkenau in Poland, where more than 1 million people were murdered during World War 2

Daily Mirror

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The Tattooist Of Auschwitz: release date, cast, plot, trailer, interviews and everything you need to know

The Tattooist Of Auschwitz on Sky Atlantic and Peacock is based on the bestselling novel and stars Jonah Hauer-King, Anna Próchniak, Melanie Lynskey, Jonas Nay and Harvey Keitel.

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WWE Apologizes for Use of Auschwitz Image in ‘WrestleMania’ Promo

The pro wrestling giant has been under fire since the startling inclusion of the infamous concentration camp in a hype video featuring Dominik Mysterio, whose character went to prison.

The Independent UK

WWE apologizes for using Auschwitz image in preview show

World Wrestling Entertainment has apologized for using an image from the Auschwitz concentration camp to promote one of its matches during the first night of WrestleMania 39 last weekend

Los Angeles Times

WWE apologizes for Auschwitz image in promo: ‘Had no knowledge of what was depicted’

World Wrestling Entertainment is apologizing for using an image of the Auschwitz concentration camp in a WrestleMania 39 promo for wrestler Dominik Mysterio.

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Auschwitz Memorial calls WWE 'shameless' for using its image in a match promo

A shot of the Nazi concentration camp appeared briefly in a shot promoting a match between Dominik and Rey Mysterio on Saturday. The Auschwitz Memorial called the move "shameless."

The Guardian - UK

Kandinsky painting stolen by Nazis fetches record £37.2m at auction

London sale comes after descendants of the owners, one of whom was murdered at Auschwitz, were reunited with work found in Dutch museum

Tribune News Service

Emhoff calls for fighting anti-Jewish tropes on Auschwitz visit

Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff’s emotional visit to Auschwitz-Birkenau marked something of a triumph for Jewish Americans: one of their own representing the U.S. at the epicenter of the Nazi genocide that tried — but failed — to wipe out their people.

Tribune News Service

‘Jew-ish’ George Santos speaks about Holocaust on House floor

Rep. George Santos, who has by turns said he is Jewish, “Jew-ish” and not Jewish, delivered remarks on the House floor recognizing the 78th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz on Friday.

France 24

Holocaust Memorial Day commemorated amid horrors of Russia-Ukraine war

Auschwitz-Birkenau survivors and other mourners commemorated the 78th anniversary Friday of the Nazi German death camp's liberation, some expressing horror that war has again shattered peace in Europe and the lesson of Never Again is being forgotten.

The Independent UK

Germany recalls overlooked LGBT victims of Nazi persecution

Germany has commemorated the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp by focusing on people who were incarcerated and killed during the Nazi era because of their sexual orientations and gender identifies

Reuters

Auschwitz director cites "sick megalomania" in Ukraine war at commemoration

The director of the Auschwitz Memorial on Friday compared the deaths of people in Ukraine to the suffering in World War Two during commemorations marking the 78th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi German death camp by Soviet troops.

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