January 26, 2015
12:52 pm

This picture from January, 1945 shows a group of children wearing concentration camp uniforms including Martha Weiss who was ten years-old, 6th from right, at the time behind barbed wire fencing in the Oswiecim (Auschwitz) Nazi concentration camp, just after their liberation by the Soviet army. (photo credit: AP Photo)

Most Germans want to put the Holocaust behind them, survey finds

Almost half of Germans have a poor opinion of Israel, and a third equate Israeli policies toward the Palestinians with Nazi policies toward the Jews

By Kirsten Grieshaber

January 26, 2015
3:19 am

The conservation laboratory at the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum, which was established two years after the German army’s retreat in 1945. (Photo credit: Katarzyna Markusz)

When the office is a death camp

Along with the 1.5 million annual visitors, dozens of people — conservators, researchers, curators — come to Auschwitz every day to work

By Katarzyna Markusz

January 25, 2015
10:53 pm

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

Auschwitz survivor recalls Nazi evil, liberation

70 years after liberation, Serbian Jewish woman tells tragic tale of life in death camp

By Aida Cerkez

January 25, 2015
8:40 pm

Main entrance to Auschwitz (photo credit: CC BY-SA Tulio Bertorini)

Auschwitz had up to twice as many staff as once thought

Poland says it has names of 9,500 employees of Nazi death camp; information to be used to locate war criminals

By AFP

January 25, 2015
10:02 am

A Jewish man rallies in front of the headquarters of the AMIA (Argentine Israelite Mutual Association), in Buenos Aires on January 21, 2015. (photo credit: AFP PHOTO / Alejandro PAGNI)

Argentine Jews to boycott official Holocaust commemoration

Community to hold its own ceremony in protest over suspicious death of prosecutor Alberto Nisman

By Marissa Newman

January 25, 2015
8:06 am

In this file photo dated January 1945, three Auschwitz prisoners, right, talk with Soviet soldiers after the Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz, in Poland, was liberated by the Russians. (Photo credit: AP/FILE)

Soviet veteran recounts horrors of Auschwitz liberation

Seventy years on, former soldier speaks of nightmarish crimes that were discovered at death camp

By Thibault MARCHAND

January 25, 2015
7:50 am

A former concentration camp prisoner attending a ceremony at the memorial site of the former Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz-Birkenau on January 27, 2014. (photo credit: AFP/JANEK SKARZYNSKI)

Survivors, world leaders to mark Auschwitz liberation

70 years later, some 300 former inmates — most in their 90s — will gather at the Nazi concentration camp on Tuesday

By AFP

January 25, 2015
7:00 am

The Pieter Schelte, one of the largest ships in the world, ports in Rotterdam, January 8, 2015. (screen capture: AFP)

World’s largest ship named after SS officer

Jewish groups protest after Pieter Schelte, capable of lifting rigs five times heavier than Eiffel Tower, arrives in Rotterdam

By Times of Israel staff

January 25, 2015
5:59 am

US appeals court upholds dismissal of Holocaust suits

Decision means that, for now, survivors won’t have recourse against Hungarian bank and railway through American court system

By AP

January 24, 2015
1:55 am

In this photo taken Thursday, Jan. 22, 2015, Marta Wise holds a famous black-and-white photo, taken by the Russian liberators of Auschwitz, showing her, center, with about a dozen children in rags standing behind a row of barbed wire (photo credit: AP/Dan Balilty)

70 years after Auschwitz liberation, a survivor remembers

Marta Wise weighed only 17 kilograms when Russians arrived at death camp, after she had been subject to cruel experiments

By Aron Heller

January 23, 2015
4:12 am

Russia accuses Poles of ‘mockery of history’ over Auschwitz

Moscow slams Polish FM after he credits Ukrainian military, and not Soviet Red Army, for liberating death camp

By Vanessa Gera

January 22, 2015
10:39 pm

French Jewish philosopher Bernard-Henri Levy addresses a special session of the United Nations General Assembly on anti-Semitism, Thursday, January 22, 2015 (photo credit: AP/Richard Drew)

At UN, French-Jewish philosopher decries ‘radical inhumanity’ of anti-Semitism

37 countries, including Israel, the US and all 28 EU nations, had requested special session, which took on added significance after Paris terror

By Carole LANDRY

January 22, 2015
10:00 pm

Auschwitz survivor Renee Gancz stands next to a portrait of her self at age 38 in her Tel Aviv apartment, January 20, 2015. (Amanda Borschel-Dan/The Times of Israel)

A journey to Auschwitz with Renee

A writer and a Holocaust survivor face personal demons before a trip to the epitome of evil

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

January 22, 2015
7:44 pm

Railway tracks leading to the Auschwitz-Birkenau extermination camp in Poland. (photo credit: Serge Attal/Flash90)

Poles bristle at lingering stigma of the Holocaust

Warsaw is still extremely sensitive to how its wartime history is presented in the West

By Michel VIATTEAU

January 22, 2015
4:46 am

Children in the Salaspils concentration camp in Latvia during WWII (photo credit: YouTube screenshot)

UNESCO Holocaust exhibit nixed after Latvian protests

Riga officials said to object on grounds exposition on children in the Salaspils concentration camp would damage their country’s image

By JTA

Topic: Holocaust