In a wide-ranging interview, historian Teresa Wontor-Cichy spoke about the role religion — especially prayer —played at the camp and warned horrors similar to the Holocaust could recur if people close their eyes to injustice.
Religion at Auschwitz: Prayer gave prisoners hope, historian says
Auschwitz program offers participants chance to examine ethics questions
The Fellowship at Auschwitz for the Study of Professional Ethics program invites graduate students and young professionals to a 12-day intensive seminar trip through Germany and Poland to examine questions of ethics those in their profession face today, in light light of the failures of the religious leaders in Germany and Poland from 1933 to 1945.