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Björn Krondorfer

Björn Krondorfer

Björn Krondorfer is the director of the Martin-Springer Institute at Northern Arizona University. He chairs the national “Consortium of Higher Education Centers for Holocaust, Genocide, and Human Rights Studies.”

COMMENTARY
Visitors at the Birkenau Museum view the many faces of the men, women and children who died at the Auschwitz II – death camp. (Photo by Scott Barbour/Getty Images)

International Holocaust Remembrance Day: Still close to home

By: - January 27, 2023

(EDITOR’S NOTE: The Arkansas Advocate occasionally publishes commentary from other sources, including other members of the States Newsroom network. This column from the Arizona Mirror reflects on the importance of educating younger generations about the Holocaust.) On Jan. 27, 1945, Soviet troops liberated the Auschwitz camp complex in occupied Poland. What the Soviet liberators found […]