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A photo of Holocaust survivor Alex Rosin, 83, born in Poland in 1940, with children on a ship from Poland to England in 1947. He is the boy in the front center with a light jacket. Rosin was saved by living with a Catholic woman in rural Poland. (OSV News photo/Debbie Hill)

Saved by a Catholic woman, a Holocaust survivor has a message for the world

May 8, 2024
At 83, Alex Rosin, born Elek Rebensztok, is among the youngest child survivors of the Holocaust.
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Visitors walk beside the words "Arbeit macht frei" ("Work makes one free" in German) as they pass the main entrance gate of the former Nazi concentration camp Sachsenhausen in Oranienburg, Germany, Jan. 26, 2024, the eve of Holocaust Remembrance Day. (OSV News photo/Fabrizio Bensch, Reuters)

Experts: Holocaust Remembrance a Call to ‘Repudiate’ Dehumanizing People

January 29, 2024
An annual commemoration of Nazi Germany’s slaughter of millions of Jews during World War II is a call to prioritize human dignity, two Jewish-Catholic experts told OSV News.
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Pope: Remembering the Holocaust reminds people hatred is never justified

January 24, 2024
Pope Francis highlighted the importance of remembering and condemning the horror of the Holocaust, underlining that hatred and violence can never be justified.
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Wiktoria Ulma is pictured writing at a table with her oldest daughter, Stasia. Józef and Wiktoria Ulma secretly gave shelter to eight Jews for almost two years in German-occupied Poland, hiding them from the murderous Nazi regime during the Second World War. The Ulmas are on the path to beatification with the Vatican declaring them martyrs Dec. 17, 2022. The Nazis killed the family and the Jews they were sheltering early in the morning March 24, 1944, right before Easter. (OSV NEWS photo/courtesy Polish Institute of National Remembrance)

Polish family murdered by Nazis to be beatified Sept. 10

February 16, 2023
Urszula Niemczak keeps a regular schedule...
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Men, women and children are seen behind barbed wire after the liberation of the Nazi death camp Auschwitz-Birkenau in 1945 in Oswiecim, Poland. Historians estimate that the Nazis sent at least 1.3 million people to Auschwitz between 1940-45, and it is believed that some 1.1 million of those perished there. Auschwitz was liberated by the Russian Army Jan. 27, 1945. (OSV News photo/Yad Vashem Archives via Reuters)

Why Does Evil Exist?

May 18, 2020
If God is all-powerful and all-good, why does evil exist?
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Irena Sendler: World War II’s Polish Angel

May 15, 2020
Irena Sendlerowa (Sendler), a Catholic who became known as the "Polish Angel, " saved the lives of an estimated 2,500 Jewish children during the Holocaust.
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