National flags are permitted at the site, the museum claimed, but not ones which have seen any alterations or slogans added.

From influential platforms, Mr. Turski, an Auschwitz survivor from Poland, warned the world of rising antisemitism and the perils of indifference to it.

The performance will be at the United Church of Gainesville on Sunday starting at 4 p.m. TV20’s David Snyder and Rebecca Jefferson of the UF Bud Shorstein Center for Jewish Studies will be emceeing the event.

1944 - The Wiesel family is sent to the Auschwitz concentration camp, when Elie is 15. January 1945 - Is moved with his father to the Buchenwald concentration camp. His father dies there. April 11, 1945 - The Buchenwald concentration camp is liberated. Wiesel and other orphans are sent to France.

Photographer Gillian Laub has been taking photos of as many Holocaust survivors as she can – models of courage, fortitude and grace who bear witness to the horrors they experienced, and to the antisemitism they see today in America.

The moment I saw my mother and brother heading toward the train, I realized that was it,” Naor told Yad Vashem, Israel’s official Holocaust memorial. “I could say ‘goodbye’ forever.” At Auschwitz, and at other death camps like Sobibor,

A Gainesville choir will perform music composed by prisoners in Nazi concentration camps during the Holocaust.

Arielle Nakdimon writes that organizers acted appropriately in cutting remarks from video of the event because they didn’t reflect the hosts’ mission.