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Trump, Musk, AfD — Why Germany Should Remember Auschwitz Differently This Year

Photo of the sun rising over Auschwitz on Jan. 27
Sunrise over Auschwitz on Jan. 27 Marek Klimek/Imago/ZUMA

The Holocaust was based on the same ultranationalist ideas that the New Right refers to today. Even if Elon Musk, Donald Trump and Germany’s AfD leader Alice Weidel try to distance themselves from the words associated with Nazism, their politics cannot fool us.

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Art From Auschwitz: A Last Chance To Preserve Prisoner Voices For Posterity

​Entrance to Auschwitz Concentration Camp in Oswiecim Poland, Dec. 7, 2011.
Entrance to Auschwitz Concentration Camp in Oswiecim Poland, Dec. 7, 2011. Jerzy Dabrowski/ZUMA

Some 80 years after the end of the Holocaust, there are fewer and fewer survivors to bear witness to their experiences. The Auschwitz-Birkenau Museum and Memorial in Poland is developing an exhibition of works of art created by prisoners as a way of sharing their voices and emotions with future generations.

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When Artistic Grandkids Of Holocaust Survivors Find Their Muse In Poland’s Footprints

A still-image from the film, "A Real Pain" depicts two cousins who return to Poland to honor their grandmother and her experience during the Holocaust.
A still-image from the film, "A Real Pain" depicts two cousins who return to Poland to honor their grandmother and her experience during the Holocaust. Searchlight Pictures/ZUMA

The memory of the Holocaust remains a painful and ever-present stain on Polish history. While the trauma continues to affect the living survivors and their families today, many survivors’ descendants are facing it head-on, and returning to Poland to learn about their family history and transform it into artistic works.

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