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In a screenshot from a video shared by Gal Gadot to mark Holocaust Remembrance Day on April 12, 2018, the Israeli movie star touches the face of her late grandfather Abraham Weiss, a Holocaust survivor whose family was killed at Auschwitz. (Screen capture: Instagram)
April 13, 2018, 4:48 pm
Gal Gadot cries after seeing video of her grandpa on Holocaust Remembrance Day
Israeli movie star says she had never before seen clip of herself with her grandfather, whose entire family was murdered at Auschwitz
By TOI staff
Garden of the Righteous Among the Nations at Yad Vashem. (Courtesy)
April 13, 2018, 3:17 pm
More than a meme against genocide
Practical steps to ensure that no community will ever again be targeted for elimination while the world stands by
By Gina Ross
Ben Sales’ great-grandfather, Abba Sales, emigrated from Eastern Europe to the United States in 1921. His parents and other relatives were killed in the Holocaust. (Courtesy of Ben Sales)
April 13, 2018, 4:31 am
My ancestors died in the Holocaust. I just found out about it
A letter found folded into a Passover Hagaddah changes the family history we thought we always knew
By Ben Sales
American astronaut Andrew Feustel in a recorded video message from aboard the International Space Station commemorating Holocaust Remembrance Day, April 12, 2018. (Screen capture: YouTube)
April 13, 2018, 3:07 am
US astronaut sends Holocaust remembrance message from space
Andrew Feustel beams down Yom Hashoah commemoration recorded aboard the International Space Station
By JTA
Clockwise from upper right: 'The Ballad of Marie Sanders, The Jew’s Whore,' by Nancy Spero; Half-Scale Study for Double Jeopardy from Holocaust Project—Studies/Ancillaries, by Judy Chicago and Donald Woodman; 'Women in Birkenau Camp,' by Halina Olomucki, drawn secretly while imprisoned in 1945. (Courtesy Ronald Feldman Gallery)
April 13, 2018, 12:46 am
Groundbreaking exhibition depicts sexual violence against women in the Holocaust
Opening April 12, a group show sees artists shine light on a taboo facet of Holocaust history and draw attention to continuing sex crime in contemporary war zones
By Cathryn J. Prince
Polish president Andrzej Duda speaks during a ceremony in the March of the Living at the Auschwitz-Birkenau camp site in Poland, as Israel marks annual Holocaust Memorial Day, on April 12, 2018. (Yossi Zeliger/Flash90)
April 12, 2018, 8:11 pm
Polish president: Before the Germans, Auschwitz saw Jewish-Polish ‘coexistence’
Poles were 'also brutally persecuted,' says Andrzej Duda at March of the Living; Rivlin cites Polish complicity in Holocaust, challenging new law
By TOI staff
Diarist Renia Spiegel, who was murdered by the Nazis at the age of 18 in Przemysl, Poland (courtesy: Renia Spiegel Foundation)
April 12, 2018, 7:33 pm
The lost diary of Poland’s ‘Anne Frank’: An untold testament of a truncated life
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
By Matt Lebovic
The infamous German inscription that reads 'Work Makes Free' at the main gate of the Auschwitz I extermination camp in Oswiecim, Poland, on November 15, 2014. (Christopher Furlong/Getty Images via JTA)
April 12, 2018, 5:00 pm
Poll: Most Americans believe Holocaust could happen again
Nearly half are unable to name a single ghetto or concentration camp, and 4 in 10 are unsure what Auschwitz was
By Sue Surkes
President Reuven Rivlin, center, and Israel Police Commissioner Roni Alsheich, left, participate in the March of the Living at the Auschwitz-Birkenau site in Poland, as Israel marks the annual Holocaust Remembrance Day, on April 12, 2018. (Yossi Zeliger/Flash90)
April 12, 2018, 4:53 pm
Poles helped in Nazi extermination, Rivlin tells Polish counterpart
Israel's president says Warsaw has witnessed a 'wave of anti-Semitism' sparked by law criminalizing mention of complicity in Holocaust
By TOI staff
US President Donald Trump speaks at the Yad Vashem Holocaust Museum in Jerusalem on May 23, 2017. (Isaac Harari/Flash90)
April 12, 2018, 4:52 pm
Trump on Holocaust day: Americans have ‘moral obligation’ to fight anti-Semitism
US president proclaims: 'We must ensure that the history of the Holocaust remains forever relevant and that no people suffer these tragedies ever again'
By JTA and TOI staff
A group of Panama youth visit the former Nazi death camp of Auschwitz ahead of the yearly March of the Living, a Holocaust remembrance march, in Oswiecim, Poland on April 12, 2018. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)
April 12, 2018, 4:18 pm
Led by Israel’s President Rivlin, thousands attend March of Living in Poland
More than 12,000 people from 40 countries make two-mile march from Auschwitz to Birkenau, accompanied by heads of IDF, Mossad, Shin Bet and police
By TOI staff
The infamous German inscription that reads 'Work Makes Free' at the main gate of the Auschwitz I extermination camp in Oswiecim, Poland, on November 15, 2014. (Christopher Furlong/Getty Images via JTA)
April 12, 2018, 1:17 pm
Mengele believed young Trudy’s lie
I wore my grandmother's raincoat and carried her book in my hand as I retraced her steps at Auschwitz
By Orly Margulis
Italian conductor Francesco Lotoro rehearses his concert of reconstructed musical compositions created in the concentration camps, April 8, 2018 (Jessica Steinberg/Times of Israel)
April 12, 2018, 12:06 pm
‘Like a mitzvah’: Italian conductor brings to life music composed in the camps
Francesco Lotoro spent the last 30 years researching music lost in the Holocaust; now he's performing it with the Ashdod Symphony Orchestra
By Jessica Steinberg
Accounts of the Holocaust. (Facebook)
April 12, 2018, 12:06 pm
Why survivors need social media
A New Jersey teen is making the Holocaust real and relatable for kids who are digital natives
By Jonathan Feldstein
People stand still on Jaffa road, central Jerusalem, as a two-minute siren is sounded across Israel to mark Holocaust Remembrance Day on April 12, 2018. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
April 12, 2018, 9:39 am
Israel solemnly remembers 6 million victims on Holocaust Remembrance Day
Nationwide sirens sound at 10 a.m., kicking off ceremonies throughout the country; President Rivlin leads 'March of the Living' at Auschwitz
By Michael Bachner, TOI staff and Agencies
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