Almost one in 10 Irish people aged between 18 and 29 believe the Holocaust is a “myth” while 19 per cent believe it happened but its scale has been “greatly exaggerated”, according to a survey. Half of the Irish adult population does not know that six million Jews were murdered during the Holocaust, the survey … Read more
Emotional Auschwitz survivors used the 80th anniversary of the camp’s liberation as a warning to the world: push back against rising hatred of Jews – or risk sliding into darker times. Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskiy was applauded as he joined 50 other leaders – including Taoiseach Micheál Martin, Britain’s King Charles and German chancellor Olaf … Read more
Elon Musk, the great disrupter, has done it again. In a live-stream to a rally of the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) on Saturday, he said “German children should not be guilty of the sins of their parents, let alone their great-grandparents”. His assertion attracted cheers from supporters present and, no doubt, quiet nods of … Read more
What sort of music would play at the gates of hell? When 19-year-old Anita Lasker-Wallfisch was deposited outside Auschwitz-Birkenau in December 1943, she had her answer. “I thought I’m hallucinating. I heard Eine kleine Nachtmusik from Mozart,” she recalls in The Last Musician of Auschwitz (BBC Two, Monday, 9pm), a powerful documentary airing as part … Read more