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Poland welcomes Israeli support for renaming Auschwitz By Reuters Last Update: 20/04/2006 21:04 WARSAW - Poland on Thursday said it welcomed Holocaust museum Yad Vashem's backing for its efforts to have Auschwitz concentration camp renamed to make clear Nazi Germans rather than Poles were responsible for it. Some 1.5 million people, mostly Jews, were murdered at the site, which remains at the heart of sometimes tense but improving Polish-Jewish relations. Poland has asked the United Nations to change the name of its world heritage site from "Auschwitz Concentration Camp" to "Former Nazi German Concentration Camp of Auschwitz". Warsaw is incensed...

Anti Defamation League Urges UNESCO to Ensure That Auschwitz Is Designated As "German" Camp New York, NY, April 10, 2006 … The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) has expressed support for the government of Poland's ongoing efforts to ensure that the official name of the Auschwitz death camp, as recorded on UNESCO's World Heritage site registry, emphasizes that the camp was built and operated by Nazi Germany. "We share Poland's concerns over the frequent description of Auschwitz as a 'Polish' camp, since this seems to imply that the camp was built in the name of the Polish people," said Abraham H. Foxman,...

APPEAL AGAINST "POLISH DEATH" CAMPS Polish conservative daily 'Rzeczpospolita' is running an campaign against the 'Polish death camps' expression. Appeal of Mr. Grzegorz Gauden - editor-in-chief of the "Rzeczpospolita" daily - addressed to worldwide mass media Warsaw, 26th January 2004 Dear Sir, Dear Colleague, Acting as the Editor-in-Chief of the "Rzeczpospolita" daily, the most renowned opinion-forming Polish daily newspaper that has always focused on truth and the compliance with the ethical principles also in the sphere of journalism I have noticed with pain and grief that in many renowned newspapers all over the world a term "Polish concentration camps" appears...

In taking note of the life of Simon Wiesenthal, the great Nazi hunter who died yesterday at 96 after surviving the Soviet NKVD, numerous German death camps and a 1982 assassination attempt, we are reminded of Andrew Jackson's famous aphorism: "One man with courage makes a majority." ...[I]t is difficult to remember that when Mr. Wiesenthal began tracking Nazis from a tiny "Documentation Center" in the Austrian city of Linz, his work was hardly popular. Much of Europe wanted to put its collaborationist chapters behind it; some of the most prominent Nazis had fled to distant corners and assumed new...

ADVISERS appointed by Tony Blair after the London bombings are proposing to scrap the Jewish Holocaust Memorial Day because it is regarded as offensive to Muslims. They want to replace it with a Genocide Day that would recognise the mass murder of Muslims in Palestine, Chechnya and Bosnia as well as people of other faiths. The draft proposals have been prepared by committees appointed by Blair to tackle extremism. He has promised to respond to the plans, but the threat to the Holocaust Day has provoked a fierce backlash from the Jewish community. Holocaust Day was established by Blair...

65th anniversary of first transport to Auschwitz Nazi death camp 13.06.2005 Commemorations of the 65th anniversary of the first transport of prisoners to the Auschwitz concentration camp have began in the southern city of Tarnow. It was from there that the Nazis had gathered 728 young Poles, mostly soldiers who hadn’t escaped after the German onslaught in 1939, to be sent to Auschwitz. They arrived at the death camp on June 14th, 1940, which is considered to be the official date of the establishment of what was to become the biggest graveyard in World War Two and the site of...

It's a given that The New York Times ignored the Holocaust, a sin of omission confessed by the paper itself. Now we have a book that says it ain't so — that from the beginning to the end of World War II, The Times published 1,186 stories about the extermination of the European Jews. It just buried the stories inside. "Buried by The Times" is the title of the book, and it's more damning by far than anything the critics ever said about the paper's coverage of the worst mass murder in history. This book proves that The Times not...

Last Updated: Monday, 25 April, 2005, 17:03 GMT 18:03 UK Balkan 'Auschwitz' haunts Croatia Survivors of a World War II death camp have been mourning the victims of Croatia's Nazi puppet regime. As the BBC's Nick Hawton and Marko Kovac report, war crimes committed long before the atrocities of the 1990s still haunt Croatia as it seeks EU membership. The atrocities at Jasenovac shocked even the Nazis In the vast open field, on the banks of the Sava River, the survivors came to pay their respects. Sixty years ago, this was the scene of some of the worst atrocities of...

Sixty years on, the world must not forget Belsen, says liberator Sixty years ago 24-year-old Dick Williams set off through the woods of northern Germany in search of a "refugee" camp. The previous day, a German officer had agreed to hand the camp over to the advancing British. With only a map reference to guide him, Williams crossed the German frontline by jeep and turned left down an unmarked track. It was then that he found it: a vast concentration camp surrounded by a 10ft high barbed-wire fence and still guarded by armed SS soldiers. Yesterday Major Williams, now 84,...

WEIMAR, Germany - Elderly survivors of the Buchenwald concentration camp laid flowers and observed a moment of silence for victims of the Nazis, 60 years after U.S. troops liberated the camp. Flags from some 30 nations hung in the cold drizzle on Sunday, representing the nations from which the camp's 240,000 prisoners came between 1937 and 1945. About 56,000 died - either worked to death, shot or killed in medical experiments. Ukrainian concentration camp survivor Petro Mischtschuk, 78, holds a white flag at former Nazi death camp Buchenwald in Germany, Sunday. (AP) German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder and U.S. veterans...

At some point, perhaps in the not too distant future, the Terri Schiavo case may prove to be the seminal event that sparked the final days of the once-respected and essential soul of America. That which makes the Terri Schiavo case and controversy unique is neither that she has been on feeding and hydration tubes, nor that they were removed so that she would finally and inexorably die. Rather, it is that we, as a nation, have been intimately involved in the death watch and a media event…that of the murder of an innocent woman. I have heard estimates that...

Israel Says Never Again With New Holocaust Museum By Joel Leyden Israel News AgencyJerusalem----March 13....It is not the Eurovision TV song festival or the Maccabi Tel Aviv basketball team entering the finals of the European championship. There are no ads or promos on Israel television. It is an event which entered my email box as hundreds do from the Israel Government Press Office. But this event was quite different. It talked about a new holocaust museum opening in Jerusalem. At first I questioned if this was a new wing or an extension dedicated by a wealthy contributor in the US...

Pointing Fingers By Marcin Mierzejewski 16 February 2005 Who is responsible for World War II death camps—the Nazis, Germans, or maybe Poles? The facts are clear, yet many international media sources consistently use the phrase “Polish concentration camps,” thus falsifying history. While reporting on the 60th anniversary of the liberation of Konzentrationslager (KL) Auschwitz-Birkenau, New York Times correspondent Craig S. Smith wrote Jan. 27, “The commemoration means different things to each nation: for Russia it is a commemoration of its often-overlooked role as liberator, while for Poland and other Central European countries it is both part of a gradual recognition...

Arab U.N. diplomats decided to visibly snub a reception at U.N. headquarters opening an exhibition to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi death camps. That action contrasted with an earlier session by the U.N. General Assembly where many Arab delegations gave what appeared to be lip service in a GA session to honor those who died and those who survived the campaigns of the Third Reich. In an unusual move, the White House sent deputy defense secretary Paul Wolfowitz to lead the U.S. delegation. Wolfowitz is said to be on a short list of candidates to...

Poland demands Ottawa censure CTV over 'insult' OTTAWA - Poland has asked the Canadian government to take action against broadcaster CTV for refusing to apologize to viewers for referring to a Nazi German concentration camp in Poland as a "Polish camp."

MATTERS OF LIFE AND DEATH Jeb Bush: No intervention for Schiavo Case 'in court's hands' on eve of woman's judge-ordered starvation Posted: October 14, 2003 2:30 p.m. Eastern By Art Moore © 2003 WorldNetDaily.com One day before Terri Schindler Schiavo's court-ordered starvation is set to begin, Florida Gov. Jeb Bush's office says it can do nothing more to save the brain-disabled woman's life. "This is in the court's hands," Bush's press secretary Alia Faraj told WorldNetDaily. "Our government has committed these decisions to the judicial branch, and we must respect that process." Faraj noted Bush presented his opinion on this...

SEOUL--The guards at North Korea's No. 22 Hoeryong prison camp had a little competition going: catch one of the rare inmates who dare try to escape and win a trip to college. And so one day in 1991, recalls Ahn Myong Chul, a former prison driver who later fled North Korea, an enterprising fellow guard coaxed five prisoners into climbing the camp's barbed-wire fence. He shot them dead--and thereby earned an education at a state political college. Such is the capriciousness of life in one corner of North Korea's vast gulag, its chain of political prison camps for those who--often...

OSWIECIM, Poland (AP) - President Bush passed under Auschwitz gate's chillingly misleading proclamation that "work makes you free" to pay tearful tribute Saturday to the victims of Nazi death camps. "Never forget," he exhorted.Bush and his wife, Laura, spent nearly two hours touring the Auschwitz and Birkenau extermination camps, the president calling them "a monument to the darkest impulses of man."The Bushes saw long-abandoned baby shoes, Jewish prayer shawls, battered suitcases, artificial limbs and other items that belonged to those who passed through Auschwitz's gate not to earn their freedom but to die.They saw masses of hair shorn from victims...

Find Your Death Camps Here and try to Do Something about it.  What can one do?  Sidewalk counseling, prayer, education and information, start a respect-life committee at your church, join your state and county right to life organization, volunteer at your local crisis pregnancy center, join the Knights of Columbus if you are a Catholic male, hold a sign in front of a clinic, start programs in your youth groups and schools and educate them.   Death Camps in Your State, Life Dynamics     List of Abortion Mills and Catholic Churches in your state which can minister to them,...

77 trains on the French rail lines ran to the death camps Despite compelling evidence, a case seeking damages for the role played by the French railways in the Holocaust will probably be dismissed as beyond the statute of limitations By Amiram Barkat Kurt Werner Schaechter's parents, who arrived in France as refugees, were transported to death camps in Poland along with 76,000 other Jews aboard 77 trains that were operated by the Societe Nationale des Chemins de Fer Francais (SNCF), the French national railway. The transports took place between March 27, 1942 and July 31, 1944, a few days...