May 18, 2017
4:11 am

Opposition activists holding candles protest against the deaths of 43 people in clashes with the police during weeks of demonstrations against the government of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, in Caracas on May 17, 2017. (AFP JUAN BARRETO)

Venezuela leader says officials treated like Jews under Nazis

Comments from embattled president Nicolas Maduro spark anger from country’s small Jewish community

By AP

May 17, 2017
5:59 am

Children at Tikva's kindergarten preparing materials for Lag BOmer, Odessa, Ukraine, May 12, 2017. in the southern city of Arad, in the southern city of Arad, (Photo Sue Surkes)

Ukraine’s Jews walk narrow line between murderous past and uncertain future

As Ukrainian PM Volodymyr Groysman winds up a three-day visit to Israel, Jews back home try to cope with economic difficulties and the effects of war

By Sue Surkes

May 16, 2017
5:54 pm

Italian cyclist Gino Bartali (screen capture: YouTube)

Cyclists pay tribute to champ who saved Jews during Holocaust

Gino Bartali used cover of training to smuggle messages and false documents in his bicycle frame in WWII Italy

By JTA

May 14, 2017
3:38 pm

Ma, thank you for the life you led

Mother's Day A tribute to his mother, whose story traversed the 20th century, and her passion for country, people, and family

By Daniel S. Mariaschin

May 13, 2017
11:06 pm

A soldier lays flowers at the monument to World War II hero Capt. Witold Pilecki, who volunteered to go to Auschwitz and report on the atrocities there, and was later killed by Poland's communist regime, during ceremonies of the monument's unveiling in Warsaw, Poland, Saturday, May 13, 2017. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)

Poland unveils memorial to WWII hero who entered Auschwitz voluntarily

Resistance fighter Witold Pilecki provided firsthand accounts of atrocities in Nazi death camp, was later executed by communists

By AP

May 12, 2017
3:27 pm

France’s far-right National Front president Marine Le Pen, center, surrounded by supporters, sings the French National Anthem after her speech at Opera Plaza during the annual May Day march, in Paris, May 1, 2015. (AP/Francois Mori)

French mayor shutters Holocaust exhibition deemed election propaganda

National Front activist demanded temporary closure, claiming exhibit fed into ‘the idea that we are the new Nazis’

By JTA

May 10, 2017
8:26 pm

A drug deal is photographed in Berlin, 1924 (Public Domain/German Federal Archive)

Did stimulants fuel Nazi Germany’s war of annihilation?

A probe into drug and alcohol use during Nazi Germany’s ‘blitzkrieg’ assault on Europe opens a Pandora’s box of coverups and accusations

By Matt Lebovic

May 10, 2017
6:33 pm

People place white roses on a memorial that was unveiled in the German port city of Hamburg to Jewish and Roma residents who were killed during the Nazi Holocaust, Wednesday, May 10, 2017. (Christophe Gateau/dpa via AP)

Hamburg unveils memorial to Jews, Roma killed in Holocaust

Plaque lists names of thousands who were deported from train station to death camps between 1939 and 1945

By AP

May 10, 2017
6:00 pm

Illustrative: Marching through the streets of the former ghetto in Warsaw, Poland, on July 22 (photo credit: AP/Alik Keplicz)

Historic plum tree from Warsaw ghetto has 2nd chance to grow

Polish couple in US that took seeds from tree, chopped down last year, will send seedling to Poland to be planted

By JTA

May 9, 2017
6:32 pm

Ukrainian schoolchildren recite poetry at the unveiling of a memorial to 1,000 Jewish children massacred by the Nazis in a forest in Uman in 1942. May 8, 2017. (Photo Sue Surkes)

In a Ukraine forest, terrible events of 75 years ago given resonance by handful of survivors

On VE day, Jews and Christians gather near Uman to unveil a monument to 1,000 Jewish children murdered by the Nazis

By Sue Surkes

May 9, 2017
1:54 am

Men sit in village square in Iwaniska, Poland in 'Scandal in Ivansk' (Blumenfeld Pictures)

New documentary digs up controversy as Polish Jewish cemetery restored

In ‘Scandal in Ivansk,’ opening May 9, a Canadian-Israeli filmmaker charts the maelstrom surrounding Poles’ relationship to the word ‘collaborators’ in a new nationalist era

By Renee Ghert-Zand

May 7, 2017
3:24 pm

When the rabbis fail

On Bar Kokhba and the Holocaust: How the leadership erred, steering the people to their destruction

By Aaron Koller

May 4, 2017
1:51 pm

While survivors are still here

The March of the Living educational program is exceptional thanks to those who witnessed the Holocaust first-hand

By Gideon D. Sylvester

April 30, 2017
2:53 pm

French presidential election candidate for the far-right Front National (FN) party Marine Le Pen arrives for a campaign meeting, on April 27, 2017 in Nice. AFP/Valery HACHE)

Battling anti-Semitic image, Le Pen quietly visits Holocaust memorial

Presidential candidate lays wreath at Marseille plaque to victims rounded up by Nazis, days after allegations her deputy denied genocide

By Times of Israel staff and Agencies

April 30, 2017
12:52 am

Pope Francis talks to journalists during a press conference he held on his return flight from Cairo to Rome, Saturday, April 29, 2017 (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)

Pope repeats refugee ‘concentration camps’ remarks

Challenged over criticism of the comparison, Francis doubles down

By AP

Topic: Holocaust

Venezuela leader says officials treated like Jews under Nazis

Comments from embattled president Nicolas Maduro spark anger from country’s small Jewish community

Ukraine’s Jews walk narrow line between murderous past and uncertain future

As Ukrainian PM Volodymyr Groysman winds up a three-day visit to Israel, Jews back home try to cope with economic difficulties and the effects of war

Cyclists pay tribute to champ who saved Jews during Holocaust

Gino Bartali used cover of training to smuggle messages and false documents in his bicycle frame in WWII Italy

Ma, thank you for the life you led

Mother's Day A tribute to his mother, whose story traversed the 20th century, and her passion for country, people, and family

Poland unveils memorial to WWII hero who entered Auschwitz voluntarily

Resistance fighter Witold Pilecki provided firsthand accounts of atrocities in Nazi death camp, was later executed by communists

French mayor shutters Holocaust exhibition deemed election propaganda

National Front activist demanded temporary closure, claiming exhibit fed into ‘the idea that we are the new Nazis’

Did stimulants fuel Nazi Germany’s war of annihilation?

A probe into drug and alcohol use during Nazi Germany’s ‘blitzkrieg’ assault on Europe opens a Pandora’s box of coverups and accusations

Hamburg unveils memorial to Jews, Roma killed in Holocaust

Plaque lists names of thousands who were deported from train station to death camps between 1939 and 1945

Historic plum tree from Warsaw ghetto has 2nd chance to grow

Polish couple in US that took seeds from tree, chopped down last year, will send seedling to Poland to be planted

In a Ukraine forest, terrible events of 75 years ago given resonance by handful of survivors

On VE day, Jews and Christians gather near Uman to unveil a monument to 1,000 Jewish children murdered by the Nazis

New documentary digs up controversy as Polish Jewish cemetery restored

In ‘Scandal in Ivansk,’ opening May 9, a Canadian-Israeli filmmaker charts the maelstrom surrounding Poles’ relationship to the word ‘collaborators’ in a new nationalist era

When the rabbis fail

On Bar Kokhba and the Holocaust: How the leadership erred, steering the people to their destruction

While survivors are still here

The March of the Living educational program is exceptional thanks to those who witnessed the Holocaust first-hand

Battling anti-Semitic image, Le Pen quietly visits Holocaust memorial

Presidential candidate lays wreath at Marseille plaque to victims rounded up by Nazis, days after allegations her deputy denied genocide

Pope repeats refugee ‘concentration camps’ remarks

Challenged over criticism of the comparison, Francis doubles down

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