The Times of Israel https://www.timesofisrael.com/topic/belzec/ News from Israel, the Middle East and the Jewish World Tue, 09 Jun 2026 11:03:16 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://static-cdn.toi-media.com/www/uploads/2018/11/toi_icon_512-200x200.png Belzec | The Times of Israel https://www.timesofisrael.com/topic/belzec/ 32 32 Not forgotten: Mass graves of Jewish Holocaust victims dedicated in Poland https://www.timesofisrael.com/not-forgotten-mass-graves-of-jewish-holocaust-victims-dedicated-in-poland/ Wed, 20 Oct 2021 00:13:00 +0000 https://www.timesofisrael.com/?p=2634014 New technology and old memories help to find and secure burial sites of Jews shot and buried by German forces in fields and forests across the country

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]]> Sweden grapples with ‘guilty conscience’ over ignored Holocaust tip-off https://www.timesofisrael.com/sweden-grapples-with-guilty-conscience-over-ignored-holocaust-tip-off/ Mon, 09 Nov 2020 09:33:04 +0000 https://www.timesofisrael.com/?p=2426081 On a train in 1942, an SS officer told a Swedish diplomat of the industrialized murder of Jews at the Belzec extermination camp. But the horrifying revelation was kept under wraps

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]]> Poland says Holocaust denier David Irving ‘not welcome’ on death camp tour https://www.timesofisrael.com/poland-says-holocaust-denier-david-irving-not-welcome-on-death-camp-tour/ Sun, 24 Mar 2019 11:33:11 +0000 https://www.timesofisrael.com?p=2042662&preview=true&preview_id=2042662 After Israeli appeal, Warsaw says it won't allow British conspiracy theorist to 'present his opinions' during planned visit

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]]> Israel urges Poland to deny entry to British Holocaust denier David Irving https://www.timesofisrael.com/israel-urges-poland-to-deny-entry-to-british-holocaust-denier-david-irving/ Wed, 20 Mar 2019 10:36:48 +0000 https://www.timesofisrael.com?p=2040370&preview=true&preview_id=2040370 Minister Naftali Bennett says Irving will offend survivors and stoke anti-Semitism if he is allowed to lead tour of Nazi death camps in September

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]]> British Holocaust denier David Irving to lead Nazi death camp tour https://www.timesofisrael.com/british-holocaust-denier-david-irving-to-lead-nazi-death-camp-tour/ Tue, 19 Mar 2019 07:06:04 +0000 https://www.timesofisrael.com/?p=2039564 Publicity for the $3,650 trip calls the camps 'controversial' and describes Irving as a 'Hitler expert'

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]]> How I measured murder rates during the Holocaust https://www.timesofisrael.com/how-i-measured-murder-rates-during-the-holocaust/ Thu, 03 Jan 2019 15:05:18 +0000 https://www.timesofisrael.com/?p=1991566 An investigation into what is referred to as Operation Reinhard, the Nazi slaughter of over 1.5 million Jews in a period of just 100 days

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]]> Defending Auschwitz selfies, a new book unpacks Holocaust tourism https://www.timesofisrael.com/defending-auschwitz-selfies-a-new-book-unpacks-holocaust-tourism/ Thu, 31 May 2018 00:58:37 +0000 https://www.timesofisrael.com/?p=1847310 While commemorating the genocide perpetuated by the Nazis, visitors to memorial sites are increasingly placing themselves in the frame

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]]> The lost diary of Poland’s ‘Anne Frank’: An untold testament of a truncated life https://www.timesofisrael.com/the-lost-diary-of-polands-anne-frank-an-untold-testament-of-a-truncated-life/ Thu, 12 Apr 2018 16:33:40 +0000 https://www.timesofisrael.com/?p=1827445 For decades, few people knew of Renia Spiegel or her journal. The Holocaust victim's sister and a determined filmmaker are working to change that

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]]> In the shadow of Auschwitz, Jewish life once flowed with spirits https://www.timesofisrael.com/in-the-shadow-of-auschwitz-jewish-life-once-flowed-with-spirits/ Sun, 03 Dec 2017 09:40:16 +0000 https://www.timesofisrael.com/?p=1740170 Before the Nazis erased centuries of Jewish life in Oswiecim, Poland, the town was called a 'city of Israel,' with thriving Yiddish culture and one of Poland's first factories

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]]> At former Nazi death camp Sobibor, a post-Holocaust construction boom https://www.timesofisrael.com/at-former-nazi-death-camp-sobibor-a-post-holocaust-construction-boom/ Tue, 17 Oct 2017 08:49:03 +0000 https://www.timesofisrael.com/?p=1708943 After decades of obscurity, a one-time Nazi-built extermination center is being transformed to commemorate Jewish victims and attract more visitors

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]]> Warsaw ghetto’s secret archive goes Hollywood https://www.timesofisrael.com/warsaw-ghettos-secret-archive-goes-hollywood/ Fri, 05 Aug 2016 03:06:34 +0000 http://www.timesofisrael.com/?p=1435666 New film based on two recovered document troves -- out of three buried during the Holocaust -- depicts the ‘Oneg Shabbat’ archive’s creators, few of whom survived the Nazi regime

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]]> Has Poland become a model of Holocaust memorials? https://www.timesofisrael.com/has-poland-become-a-model-of-holocaust-memorials/ Sat, 12 Jul 2014 12:28:35 +0000 http://www.timesofisrael.com/?p=1022164 A renewal of memory -- from Belzec to Rychwal -- leaves room for optimism, says chief rabbi Michael Schudrich

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]]> Body of missing Polish Holocaust scholar found https://www.timesofisrael.com/body-of-missing-polish-holocaust-scholar-found/ Sun, 08 Jun 2014 20:28:13 +0000 http://www.timesofisrael.com/?p=1002672 Robert Kuwalek, 47, disappeared in Ukraine on Thursday; cause of death still unknown

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]]> Germany arrests 3 Auschwitz guard suspects https://www.timesofisrael.com/germany-arrests-3-auschwitz-guard-suspects/ Thu, 20 Feb 2014 17:06:05 +0000 http://www.timesofisrael.com/?p=883326 Police raid homes of 9 men and detain 3, aged 88, 92 and 94, who are suspected of serving in the SS during WWII

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]]> German who saved hundreds of Jews in Poland dies at 99 https://www.timesofisrael.com/german-who-saved-hundreds-of-jews-in-poland-dies-at-99/ Wed, 31 Jul 2013 19:27:45 +0000 http://www.timesofisrael.com/?p=619684 Industrialist Berthold Beitz named Righteous Among the Nations in 1973 and honored by Germany in 2000 for actions during Holocaust

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