Fürst, now 92, is one of a dwindling number of Holocaust survivors able to share first-person accounts of the horrors they endured, as the world marks the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazis’ most notorious death camp. Fürst is returning to Auschwitz for the annual occasion, his fourth trip to the camp.

Since October 2023, so many Holocaust scholars have gone out of their way to protect Israel,” says historian Raz Segal.

Chabad Shliach Rabbi Shalom Ber Stambler sounded the shofar and Israel's former Chief Rabbi Yisrael Meir Lau recited Kaddish at the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the German Nazi concentration and extermination camp in Auschwitz.

Gut’s grandmother survived Auschwitz. In 2023, Weisz-Gut moved to the town where the concentration camp is located.

It doesn’t do any good for your heart, for your mind, for anything,” said Holocaust survivor Jona Laks, 94, about her return to Nazi Germany’s Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp.

Among 34,000 people in the town of Oświęcim is just one Jew – a young Israeli named Hila Weisz-Gut. It’s an interesting choice of residence, given the most famous feature of the town is its proximity to the Nazi concentration and extermination camp Auschwitz – where at least 1.

The Auschwitz extermination camp was liberated 80 years ago today. Its victims were commemorated at a large memorial ceremony. Survivors were also on hand to speak and give testimony of the horrors they experienced.

The main observances take place at the site in southern Poland where Nazi Germany murdered over a million people

A 100-year-old Holocaust survivor in San Francisco recounts the horrors of the Lodz Ghetto and the concentration camps. She also has advice.