February 10, 2015
3:13 am

An Urban Outfitters tapestry the ADL says is reminiscent of uniforms gay prisoners were forced to wear at Nazi concentration camps. (Photo credit: ADL)

Retail chain asked to pull ‘Shoah’ garb

ADL tells Urban Outfitters gray-and-white stripped tapestry too similar to gay prisoners’ uniform in Nazi death camps

By Times of Israel staff

February 10, 2015
1:08 am

This undated file image shows the main gate of the Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz I, Poland. (photo credit: AP)

Jewish group calls Estonian Holocaust art show a ‘sickening mockery’

Exhibit includes video of naked adults playing tag in concentration camp gas chamber, smiling people at death camp

By AFP

February 8, 2015
5:41 pm

Nazi book-burning incident during the 1930s. (screen capture: YouTube/United States Holocaust Memorial Museum)

Another Nazi memorial vandalized in Austria

Tar daubed on plaque on the wall of a church in Salzburg commemorating 1938 book burning in the city

By AFP

February 7, 2015
2:54 pm

German soldiers march into Athens in 1941 (Photo credit: CC-BY-SA Bundesarchiv, Bild 101I-164-0357-29A / Rauch)

Greece’s other dispute with Germany

As Athens challenges Berlin on austerity measures, another longstanding conflict hangs in the background — that of World War II reparations

By Yannick Pasquet

February 7, 2015
3:19 am

Anna Chipczynska (photo credit: Andrzej Chomczyk/JTA)

Warsaw’s Jewish cemetery defender

Anna Chipczynska is committed to restoring graveyards vandalized by Polish citizens

By Penny Schwartz

February 6, 2015
9:39 pm

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

Dutch owners change name of vessel called after Nazi

World’s largest ship was named for SS officer Pieter Schelte, a Waffen-SS officer

By JTA and Times of Israel staff

February 6, 2015
9:00 pm

British Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis in an interview with Sky News on January 27, 2015. (screen capture: YouTube/Sky News)

Sky News sorry for Gaza images during Holocaust interview

British media company calls decision to air photos during discussion with UK chief rabbi ‘unfortunate’

By JTA

February 6, 2015
5:08 pm

Israeli archaeologist Yoram Haimi, right, has been warning of threats to important historical artifacts at the Sobibor death camp in Poland, September 2013. (Courtesy of Yoram Haimi/JTA)

No new building on mass graves, say Sobibor activists

Gas chamber discovery at the Nazi extermination camp spurs calls to review museum project

By Cnaan Liphshiz

February 6, 2015
6:15 am

German Chancellor Angela Merkel stands in front of a historic picture of the Auschwitz concentration camp as she gives a speech during the International Auschwitz Committee’s remembrance ceremony in Berlin to mark the 70th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi death camp, on January 26, 2015. (photo credit: AFP/Tobias Schwarz)

Hungary Jewish leader laments comment linking Merkel, Nazis

Federation president had said chancellor was highest-ranking German dignitary to visit since Eichmann

By AP

February 4, 2015
4:00 pm

Martin Gilbert speaks in Manchester, England, October 16, 2009 (photo credit: AP/PA, Dave Thompson, File)

‘Pugnacious Zionist’ Martin Gilbert was the chronicler of modern Jewry

Churchill’s biographer, who died Tuesday, described in a 2004 interview how he fell under the spell of history

By Jenni Frazer

February 3, 2015
3:02 pm

The Babi Yar memorial in Kiev, Ukraine, is defaced with swastikas in September 2014 (photo credit: YouTube screenshot)

Swastikas deface Babi Yar memorial monument, again

Incident is the third in recent months, coming just after International Holocaust Memorial Day

By JTA

February 3, 2015
3:29 am

At Budapest synagogue, Merkel remembers Holocaust victims

German chancellor lays stone at Jewish community memorial during state visit to Hungary

By JTA

February 2, 2015
7:37 pm

Illustrative photo of SS women camp guards being paraded for work in clearing the dead after the liberation of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, in Germany, April 1945 (photo credit: No 5 Army Film & Photographic UnitOakes, H (Sgt)/Wikimedia Commons)

German woman, 93, under investigation for role as SS guard

Hilde Michnia allegedly participated in guarding a Nazi death march during which 1,400 women died

By JTA

February 2, 2015
3:19 pm

Auschwitz ‘bookkeeper’ charged with 300,000 counts of accessory to murder

Prosecutors say former Nazi officer was responsible for seizing money belonging to Jewish victims at the death camp

By AFP

February 2, 2015
5:49 am

Jonny Daniels, center, with Polish Strongman Federation members in 2014. (Photo credit: courtesy of From the Depths via JTA)

Polish strongmen partner with group moving Jewish headstones

From the Depths, Polish Strongman Federation work together to restore Jewish gravestones used for construction, pavement post-Holocaust

By JTA

Topic: Holocaust

Retail chain asked to pull ‘Shoah’ garb

ADL tells Urban Outfitters gray-and-white stripped tapestry too similar to gay prisoners’ uniform in Nazi death camps

Jewish group calls Estonian Holocaust art show a ‘sickening mockery’

Exhibit includes video of naked adults playing tag in concentration camp gas chamber, smiling people at death camp

Another Nazi memorial vandalized in Austria

Tar daubed on plaque on the wall of a church in Salzburg commemorating 1938 book burning in the city

Greece’s other dispute with Germany

As Athens challenges Berlin on austerity measures, another longstanding conflict hangs in the background — that of World War II reparations

Warsaw’s Jewish cemetery defender

Anna Chipczynska is committed to restoring graveyards vandalized by Polish citizens

Dutch owners change name of vessel called after Nazi

World’s largest ship was named for SS officer Pieter Schelte, a Waffen-SS officer

Sky News sorry for Gaza images during Holocaust interview

British media company calls decision to air photos during discussion with UK chief rabbi ‘unfortunate’

No new building on mass graves, say Sobibor activists

Gas chamber discovery at the Nazi extermination camp spurs calls to review museum project

Hungary Jewish leader laments comment linking Merkel, Nazis

Federation president had said chancellor was highest-ranking German dignitary to visit since Eichmann

‘Pugnacious Zionist’ Martin Gilbert was the chronicler of modern Jewry

Churchill’s biographer, who died Tuesday, described in a 2004 interview how he fell under the spell of history

Swastikas deface Babi Yar memorial monument, again

Incident is the third in recent months, coming just after International Holocaust Memorial Day

At Budapest synagogue, Merkel remembers Holocaust victims

German chancellor lays stone at Jewish community memorial during state visit to Hungary

German woman, 93, under investigation for role as SS guard

Hilde Michnia allegedly participated in guarding a Nazi death march during which 1,400 women died

Auschwitz ‘bookkeeper’ charged with 300,000 counts of accessory to murder

Prosecutors say former Nazi officer was responsible for seizing money belonging to Jewish victims at the death camp

Polish strongmen partner with group moving Jewish headstones

From the Depths, Polish Strongman Federation work together to restore Jewish gravestones used for construction, pavement post-Holocaust

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