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Announcements/Reports

31.05.2025

Auschwitz survivor Eva Umlauf elected as President of the International Auschwitz Committee.

At a meeting of the presidium of the International Auschwitz Committee in Berlin today, the Slovakian-born German-Jewish paediatrician, psychotherapist and Auschwitz survivor Dr Eva Umlauf was elected as the new President of the International Auschwitz Committee. She succeeds the Polish-Jewish...  ... Auschwitz survivor Eva Umlauf elected as President of the International Auschwitz Committee.

22.05.2025

Education Minister Prien calls for compulsory visits to concentration camp memorials for school students.

Parallel to follow-up work on an Auschwitz Memorial project with German and Polish trainees from Volkswagen AG, Christoph Heubner, Executive Vice President of the International Auschwitz Committee commented in Emden, Lower Saxony, on the Education Minister's proposals:  ... Education Minister Prien calls for compulsory visits to concentration camp memorials for school students.

09.05.2025

Holocaust survivors pay tribute to Margot Friedländer who has died aged 103.

On receiving the news of the death of Margot Friedländer, Christoph Heubner, Executive Vice President of the International Auschwitz Committee, stated in Berlin:  ... Holocaust survivors pay tribute to Margot Friedländer who has died aged 103.

08.05.2025

Commemorating 80th anniversary of VE Day

For survivors of the Holocaust, 8 May brought the certainty that those who had humiliated them and their families for many years, persecuted them and deported them to concentration and extermination camps, had now finally been defeated and deprived of power.  ... Commemorating 80th anniversary of VE Day

05.05.2025

AfD classified as extreme-right. What Holocaust survivors now expect from the federal government.

In Berlin, Christoph Heubner, Executive Vice President of the International Auschwitz Committee, commented on the classification of the AfD as "right-wing extremist" by the Office for the Protection of the Constitution and the expectations of the new German government:  ... AfD classified as extreme-right. What Holocaust survivors now expect from the federal government.