Auschwitz survivors honour the Pope: Pope Francis will be honoured with the ‘Gift of Remembrance’ Statuette of the International Auschwitz Committee

The International Auschwitz Committee calls for immediate moves to intensify proceedings for NPD ban

Press release on Gröning trial: impossible to forgive

Dramatic appeal to politicians throughout the world: Holocaust survivors need urgent help

At the invitation of the European Shoah Legacy Institute (ESLI), representatives from 37 states as well as from NGOs met in Prague to discuss the situation of Holocaust survivors around the globe.

International Auschwitz Committee supports criticism by the lawyer of the joint plaintiffs in Lüneburg: six minutes and thirteen seconds imprisonment for a human life? 

The International Auschwitz Committee (IAC) emphatically supports the criticism expressed by the lawyers of the joint plaintiffs at the Auschwitz trial in Lüneburg concerning the sentence demanded by the prosecution. The public prosecutor proposed a sentence of three-and-a-half years for the former...

International Auschwitz Committee says democrats in Germany need to wake up now

“Germany needs a new wake-up call. No democrat should stand watching in idle complacency as xenophobia and racial tendencies eat their way further into the fabric of society,” said Christoph Heubner, Vice President of the International Auschwitz Committee, following the violent disturbances by...

Auschwitz survivors’ reaction to the invitation issued by the CSU parliamentary group: “Orban’s attitude and his policies are extremely disturbing and inacceptable for Europe.”

“Europe has the duty to be a model of democracy, a model of human rights.” 

Ahead of tomorrow’s summit meeting (23.09.2015) of the heads of states and governments of the European Union in Brussels on the situation of refugees in Europe, the International Auschwitz Committee has called on the participating politicians with the following open letter:

Auschwitz survivors are dedicating the renewed installation to the refugees and to those people in Germany and Europe who are reaching out to the refugees with open arms