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Topic: Auschwitz

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February 28, 2013
1:05 pm

A Holocaust survivor with a number tattooed on his forearm puts on Tefillin (photo credit: Flash90)

Tattoo-based Holocaust education tool causes stir

Critics call idea of wearing Auschwitz-like numbers ‘cynical’; families praise use of technology to remember

By Aaron Kalman

February 27, 2013
11:55 pm

Despite her nightmarish early years, Auschwitz survivor Paula Dash was a joyful presence in the life of her granddaughter, shown at her college graduation in 1993. (Courtesy of Allison Nazarian)

Author examines Holocaust trauma in a new generation

Inspired by her relatives’ differing responses — resilience and suicide — Allison Nazarian looks at survivors’ grandchildren

By Matt Lebovic

February 23, 2013
3:04 pm

Diary of a Nazi death camp childhood

A new Anne Frank Helga Weiss, sent to Terezin at age 12, kept a diary of her young life in concentration camps. Now, at age 83, she has published it

February 12, 2013
1:10 pm

Holocaust survivors protest Allianz-backed golf tourney

Company that insured Auschwitz has not adequately compensated victims, opponents claim

February 12, 2013
1:02 pm

Holland seeks EU heritage label for Nazi camp

Step would honor Westerbork’s ‘key role’ in European history

January 30, 2013
4:49 pm

German Chancellor Angela Merkel speaks as she opens the exhibition 'Berlin 1933 - the way to despotism' at the Topography of Terror museum in Berlin, Germany, on Wednesday, January 30, 2013. (photo credit: AP Photo/Michael Sohn)

Germany marks 80th anniversary of Hitler’s ascent

Nazis’ rise was made possible due to the cooperation of ‘the elite of German society,’ Angela Merkel says

By David Rising

January 29, 2013
5:31 am

Prisoners at Auschwitz-Birkenau during liberation, in January 1945 (photo credit: Wikimedia Commons)

Auschwitz rite marks 68 years since liberation

Ex-prisoners and liberators, Polish president attend ceremony at Nazi death camp

January 28, 2013
10:19 pm

Now 87, Israel "Izzy" Arbeiter visits Auschwitz, which he survived as a young man while cleaning latrines. (Courtesy of the WWII Foundation)

Survivor returns to Poland to dig up family history, literally

In a new documentary, Izzy Arbeiter honors a promise to his father made just before the family’s deportation to Treblinka

By Matt Lebovic

January 28, 2013
2:51 pm

Built in the 17th century by refugees from the Inquisition, Amsterdam's Portuguese Synagogue withstood the Nazi occupation to remain a center of Jewish life. (Matt Lebovic)

New cultural quarter resurrects Amsterdam’s Jewish past

Dutch capital earns international notice for efforts to rebuild a presence almost entirely wiped out during the Holocaust

By Matt Lebovic

January 27, 2013
12:07 pm

A week to remember

Never again should the survival of the Jewish people rest on the ambiguous intentions of the other nations of the world

By Tomas Sandell

January 24, 2013
4:58 pm

When Holocaust memory is a fig leaf for modern hate

No memorial to the horrors of the past should alleviate, or mitigate, guilt for the crimes of the present

By Shimon Samuels

January 22, 2013
11:36 pm

Flemish Minister-President Kris Peeters, second from left, visits Belgium's new Holocaust Museum in Mechelen in November. (Courtesy of Kris Peeters Vlaams via JTA)

Divided Belgium finally admits Holocaust complicity

Long after most of Western Europe, country acknowledges its widespread involvement in the deportation of Jews

By Cnaan Liphshiz

January 15, 2013
8:19 pm

English soccer stars release Holocaust education film

Clip was produced during national team’s visit to Poland for a tournament last summer

January 8, 2013
4:35 am

“Unfortunately, many of us don’t see each other as human beings," says 21-year-old Siavosh Derakhti. (Courtesy of Expo)

In tense Swedish city, young Muslim crusades against anti-Semitism

The son of immigrants from Iran, Siavosh Derakhti recently won an award for his efforts to promote tolerance and educate about the Holocaust

By Josefin Dolsten

January 4, 2013
8:30 pm

Poland provided the most visitors to Auschwitz last year, followed by the UK, US, Italy and Germany. (Serge Attal/Flash 90)

Auschwitz sets record with 1.43 million visitors in 2012

Tourist trips to the death camp have tripled in the past decade, both preserving victims’ memory and threatening to damage the site

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The Times of Israel

The one-stop news site
covering Israel, the region and
the Jewish people worldwide

Founding editor:
David Horovitz

Fair, fresh and fast

The Jewish world's
fastest-growing
news site

Topic: Auschwitz

Tattoo-based Holocaust education tool causes stir

Critics call idea of wearing Auschwitz-like numbers ‘cynical’; families praise use of technology to remember

Author examines Holocaust trauma in a new generation

Inspired by her relatives’ differing responses — resilience and suicide — Allison Nazarian looks at survivors’ grandchildren

Diary of a Nazi death camp childhood

A new Anne Frank Helga Weiss, sent to Terezin at age 12, kept a diary of her young life in concentration camps. Now, at age 83, she has published it

Holocaust survivors protest Allianz-backed golf tourney

Company that insured Auschwitz has not adequately compensated victims, opponents claim

Holland seeks EU heritage label for Nazi camp

Step would honor Westerbork’s ‘key role’ in European history

Germany marks 80th anniversary of Hitler’s ascent

Nazis’ rise was made possible due to the cooperation of ‘the elite of German society,’ Angela Merkel says

Auschwitz rite marks 68 years since liberation

Ex-prisoners and liberators, Polish president attend ceremony at Nazi death camp

Survivor returns to Poland to dig up family history, literally

In a new documentary, Izzy Arbeiter honors a promise to his father made just before the family’s deportation to Treblinka

New cultural quarter resurrects Amsterdam’s Jewish past

Dutch capital earns international notice for efforts to rebuild a presence almost entirely wiped out during the Holocaust

A week to remember

Never again should the survival of the Jewish people rest on the ambiguous intentions of the other nations of the world

When Holocaust memory is a fig leaf for modern hate

No memorial to the horrors of the past should alleviate, or mitigate, guilt for the crimes of the present

Divided Belgium finally admits Holocaust complicity

Long after most of Western Europe, country acknowledges its widespread involvement in the deportation of Jews

English soccer stars release Holocaust education film

Clip was produced during national team’s visit to Poland for a tournament last summer

In tense Swedish city, young Muslim crusades against anti-Semitism

The son of immigrants from Iran, Siavosh Derakhti recently won an award for his efforts to promote tolerance and educate about the Holocaust

Auschwitz sets record with 1.43 million visitors in 2012

Tourist trips to the death camp have tripled in the past decade, both preserving victims’ memory and threatening to damage the site

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