April 12, 2014
3:55 am

UK opposition leader Ed Miliband speaking at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, April 10, 2014 (photo credit: Hebrew University)

Ed Miliband meets ‘long-lost’ Holocaust survivor aunt

From the web Daily Mail: On ‘personal, political’ journey to Israel, UK Labour Party leader reunites with relative who found safe haven in kibbutz

April 10, 2014
11:21 pm

Hungarian Jewish leader Gusztav Zoltai (photo credit: Youtube screenshot)

Hungarian Jewish leader resigns

Gusztav Zoltai, director of Jewish communities, quits in protest of government’s Holocaust ‘whitewashing’

By JTA

April 10, 2014
1:32 am

Monument to victims of the Holocaust in Odessa, Ukraine (photo credit: HOBOPOCC/Wikimedia Commons/File)

Ukraine Holocaust monument defaced with swastikas

Unknown vandals also paint anti-Semitic messages on the walls of a Jewish cemetery in Odessa

By JTA

April 9, 2014
5:01 pm

A combination of photos released by prosecutors in Augsburg, Germany on November 12, 2013 show five of the 1,400 paintings believed looted by the Nazis, seized from a Munich flat of Cornelius Gurlitt (photo credit: Lostart.de/Augsburg prosecutors/AFP/File)

German prosecutors release collector’s art

Investigators still probing Nazi-era history of hundreds of works, which will remain in government custody

By Kristen Grieshaber

April 9, 2014
7:00 am

The Hungarian Parliament building in Budapest. (photo credit: Ilan Ben Zion/Times of Israel staff)

Amid protest, building of WWII statue begins in Budapest

Jewish groups claim memorial to Hungarian victims of the Holocaust absolves state of responsibility

By JTA

April 9, 2014
12:30 am

A sapling from Anne Frank's beloved chestnut tree was planted in Boston on Tuesday, June 4, 2013. (photo credit: Matt Lebovic/Times of Israel)

Anne Frank tree to be planted on US Capitol lawn

Ceremony planned for April 30, Congressional leaders announce Tuesday

By AFP

April 8, 2014
7:24 pm

Lodz Ghetto residents head toward the trains that will take them to Chelmno extermination camp, in Poland (photo credit: unknown)

Germany to improve pensions for Jewish ghetto workers

Cabinet approves draft legislation to grant 40,000 WWII laborers retroactive payment

By AFP

April 8, 2014
2:48 am

Berlin skyline (photo credit: A.Savin/Wikimedia Commons/File)

The unlikely site of world’s fastest growing Jewish community

Berlin’s vivid present has led more than 40,000 Jews to look past its tragic past and settle in the evolving metropolis

By Denis D. Gray

April 8, 2014
1:11 am

Inmates at the Buchenwald concentration camp, days after liberation (photo credit: US Army/US Defense Visual Information Center/Wikimedia Commons)

Russian bill could make Holocaust denial illegal

Measure, which also punishes the ‘rehabilitation of Nazism,’ passes on first reading in lower house of parliament

By JTA

April 7, 2014
1:20 am

Cheering crowds in Austria welcoming Hitler in 1938. (photo credit: CC BY-SA German Federal Archives. Wikimedia commons)

US students seek suspected Nazi who saved Jewish family

University of New Haven class tries to identify man known only as Alois who helped Ilie Wacs and Deborah Strobin flee Nazi-occupied Austria

By John Christoffersen

April 2, 2014
7:48 am

Interior of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, D.C. (Photo credit: CC-BY-SA AgnosticPreachersKid, Wikimedia Commons)

NBA players visit Holocaust museum

Owner of Atlanta Hawks takes basketballers to DC exhibit, accompanied by his survivor mother

By JTA

April 2, 2014
4:55 am

Youth from Ioannina’s Greek community, in traditional dress, hold candles to be lit in memory of the more than 500 Jewish children who were deported to Auschwitz. (photo credit: Gavin Rabinowitz/JTA)

Greece’s Romaniote Jews face extinction, 70 years after Auschwitz

Fewer than 50 members remain of the community in Ioannina, which was decimated by the Nazis during WWII

By Gavin Rabinowitz

April 1, 2014
11:41 am

Archaeology against Holocaust denial

Praise for the scientists who unearthed evidence of Treblinka’s gas chambers

By Simcha Jacobovici

March 31, 2014
5:39 am

Israel's President Shimon Peres and Austrian President Heinz Fischer (R) pay respect to victims of the Holocaust, Vienna, Austria on March 30, 2014. (photo credit: Mark Neyman/GPO/Flash90)

Peres: Israel a living monument to the six million

In Austria, president says Jewish state is a victory over the crimes committed by Nazis during Holocaust

By Times of Israel staff

March 30, 2014
11:37 am

Deputy minister Ofir Akunis (Likud) meets with Flemish separatist politicians from the far-right Vlaams Belang party in Israel, Tuesday, March 25, 2014. (screenshot from Akunis's official Facebook page)

Deputy minister welcomes far-right MPs, drawing criticism

Likud MK Ofir Akunis says he did not know of lawmakers’ extremist views when he met with them

By Yifa Yaakov

Topic: Holocaust

Ed Miliband meets ‘long-lost’ Holocaust survivor aunt

From the web Daily Mail: On ‘personal, political’ journey to Israel, UK Labour Party leader reunites with relative who found safe haven in kibbutz

Hungarian Jewish leader resigns

Gusztav Zoltai, director of Jewish communities, quits in protest of government’s Holocaust ‘whitewashing’

Ukraine Holocaust monument defaced with swastikas

Unknown vandals also paint anti-Semitic messages on the walls of a Jewish cemetery in Odessa

German prosecutors release collector’s art

Investigators still probing Nazi-era history of hundreds of works, which will remain in government custody

Amid protest, building of WWII statue begins in Budapest

Jewish groups claim memorial to Hungarian victims of the Holocaust absolves state of responsibility

Anne Frank tree to be planted on US Capitol lawn

Ceremony planned for April 30, Congressional leaders announce Tuesday

Germany to improve pensions for Jewish ghetto workers

Cabinet approves draft legislation to grant 40,000 WWII laborers retroactive payment

The unlikely site of world’s fastest growing Jewish community

Berlin’s vivid present has led more than 40,000 Jews to look past its tragic past and settle in the evolving metropolis

Russian bill could make Holocaust denial illegal

Measure, which also punishes the ‘rehabilitation of Nazism,’ passes on first reading in lower house of parliament

US students seek suspected Nazi who saved Jewish family

University of New Haven class tries to identify man known only as Alois who helped Ilie Wacs and Deborah Strobin flee Nazi-occupied Austria

NBA players visit Holocaust museum

Owner of Atlanta Hawks takes basketballers to DC exhibit, accompanied by his survivor mother

Greece’s Romaniote Jews face extinction, 70 years after Auschwitz

Fewer than 50 members remain of the community in Ioannina, which was decimated by the Nazis during WWII

Archaeology against Holocaust denial

Praise for the scientists who unearthed evidence of Treblinka’s gas chambers

Peres: Israel a living monument to the six million

In Austria, president says Jewish state is a victory over the crimes committed by Nazis during Holocaust

Deputy minister welcomes far-right MPs, drawing criticism

Likud MK Ofir Akunis says he did not know of lawmakers’ extremist views when he met with them

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