Auschwitz I was the original camp, opened in June 1940 in the buildings of a former Polish army garrison, and it operated for nearly five years as a place of systematic starvation, forced labor, torture, and death.
We’re releasing this video interview with Richard Lowy, author of “Kalman & Leopold – Surviving Mengele’s Auschwitz” and son of Leopold Lowy, on Yom HaShoah – Holocaust Remembrance Day – for a reason. While the January liberation of Auschwitz has become widely recognized internationally, Yom HaShoah remains a distinctly Jewish day of remembrance with deep…
History lives in silence, so much so that a Mengele Auschwitz firsthand account is rare, and precious. For decades, Holocaust survivors like Richard Lowy’s father kept their experiences locked away, carrying unimaginable trauma without burdening their children with the horrors they had witnessed. As Richard recounts, “Father had the numbers on his arms, and we…
A brilliant mind and photographer left us this week, and my heart misses my friend Alan Jacobs whose Auschwitz Concentration Camp Virtual Tour is a breakthrough way to see the camp, even if you never are able to visit it. Missing my friend, Alan Jacobs Enter Auschwitz Krematorium 1 and take the tour with videos…
COMPLETE PODCAST TRANSCRIPT “Hello and welcome, I’m Shauna Hoffman. Today I am sharing my journey back to Hungary with my mom and the joys and the lessons I learned. My mom was born in Miskolc Hungary, a large city outside of Budapest. She lived there until the Nazis killed her mom, dad, and baby sisters…