White House ‘regrets’ reference to ‘Polish death camp’

Published on May 30, 2012

The White House expressed its regrets about President Obama's use of the term "Polish death camp."

The plot to kill Hitler becomes a Tom Cruise thriller

By Tom Tugend
Published on December 18, 2008

The film reconstructs the July 20, 1944, assassination attempt on the Fuhrer's life, which, had it succeeded, would have spared the lives of untold thousands of soldiers and death-camp inmates

A Class Trip to Remember

By Andrea Adelson
Published on April 1, 2004

Next month Sevy will relive, in part, his parents' journey with his 18-year-old son, Nadav, as they traverse the 2-mile walk from the so-called "death gate" of the former Auschwitz Nazi death camp to the International Monument of Holocaust Victims of the Birkenau death camp.

Nadav is one of about 23 students committed to a three-week senior class trip planned for the fourth graduating class of Irvine's Tarbut V'Torah Community Day School. Their sobering itinerary includes Auschwitz, Schindler's factory and the Warsaw ghetto, followed by Israel's modern cities, historical sights and natural beauty.

Death Camp Uprising

By Alan Riding
Published on September 5, 2002

In the history of the Holocaust, the Sobibor death camp in Eastern Poland has remained something of a footnote, a place where 260,000 Jews were murdered, as opposed to at least 1.1 million in Auschwitz-Birkenau. Having operated for just 18 months and closed long before the Allied victory in May 1945, Sobibor, like its victims, disappeared almost without a trace.

Restoring Hope

By Ruth E. Gruber
Published on September 21, 2000

A prayer and study center honoring Jewish life has opened near the place that for more than half a century has been the paramount symbol of Jewish death.