April 3, 2017
6:44 pm

Holocaust survivor Eugenia Unger, 91, of Buenos Aires, finally celebrates her bat mitzvah. (Facebook screenshot via JTA)

Holocaust survivor, 91, celebrates bat mitzvah in Argentina

Eugenia Unger, who was in the Warsaw Ghetto and Auschwitz, says ceremony was ‘the culmination’ of her life

By JTA

December 2, 2016
11:02 pm

Austrian presidential candidate Norbert Hofer at a Governmental TV channel event in Vienna, May 22, 2016. (Jan Hetfleisch/Getty Images/JTA)

Austria’s rising far-right seen as proof of failure to address Nazi past

With country on the verge of electing president from nationalist Freedom Party, experts blame Vienna’s reluctance to confront its history

By Cnaan Liphshiz

May 7, 2016
9:38 am

Labor's Hilik Bar addresses the Knesset (Flash90)

Polish town names square after Knesset deputy speaker’s family

Skulsk calls plaza after Hilik Bar’s great-grandfather Yitzhak Kotowski, who perished in Majdanek concentration camp

By JTA

February 22, 2016
8:33 pm

Treblinka survivor Poldek (Leon) Rytz, 89, dances with wife Ester Dyna Rytz, 86, in 2007 in Sweden. (courtesy)

There are still Treblinka survivors living. One tells his tale

Now in Sweden, 89-year-old Leon ‘Poldek’ Rytz remains active in spreading his tale of survival in the face of genocide

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

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

November 25, 2014
11:02 pm

Visitors walk the grounds of Majdanek, where more than 75,000 prisoners were murdered during the Holocaust (Photo credit: Yossi Zeliger/Flash90)

Prisoner shoes stolen from Nazi death camp museum

Police launch investigation after footwear goes missing at Majdanek; hole discovered in display

By AFP

November 21, 2014
10:16 pm

Samuel Klein, the founder of Brazilian retail giant Casas Bahia. (YouTube screenshot)

Jewish founder of Brazil’s largest retail chain dies

Business mogul Samuel Klein, who escaped from a Nazi death camp, passes away from respiratory failure

By AP

June 8, 2014
11:28 pm

Lviv, Ukraine (photo credit: Wikimedia Commons/Lestat/Jan Mehlich/CC BY-SA 2.5)

Body of missing Polish Holocaust scholar found

Robert Kuwalek, 47, disappeared in Ukraine on Thursday; cause of death still unknown

By JTA

May 21, 2014
2:28 am

In this Nov. 9, 2005 file picture watch towers and a barbed wire fence of the former Nazi death camp Majdanek outside the city of Lublin in eastern Poland are photographed. (Photo credit: AP/ Czarek Sokolowski,file)

German probe finds 20 former death camp guards

State prosecutors to pursue accessory to murder charges; 220 others still being investigated but yet to be located

By David Rising

May 7, 2014
4:16 pm

The oldest man in the world, 111-year-old Holocaust survivor Alexander Imich, in an interview with NBC News, May 2014 (screen capture: YouTube)

World’s oldest man is 111-year-old Holocaust survivor

Alexander Imich, born in 1903, escaped Nazis and Soviet gulag to dedicate his life to studying the occult

By Yifa Yaakov

February 20, 2014
7:06 pm

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

Germany arrests 3 Auschwitz guard suspects

Police raid homes of 9 men and detain 3, aged 88, 92 and 94, who are suspected of serving in the SS during WWII

By David Rising

January 27, 2014
9:42 am

Death camp museum worker accused of making anti-Semitic fliers

Police say Majdanek memorial employee printed anti-Jewish posters at museum, helped hang them around Lublin

By JTA

December 17, 2013
2:28 pm

‘Polish death camp’ designation sparks protest by Poles

Museum directors at Nazi death camps in Poland object to the use of ‘Polish’ in describing them

By JTA

October 13, 2013
12:20 am

Turkish students use Nazi salute at concentration camp

From the web Two youths arrested after flashing Hitler greeting at an Israeli delegation in Majdanek, Poland, Today’s Zaman reports

September 3, 2013
6:02 pm

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

Auschwitz Nazi suspect said living in Israel

German prosecutors office won’t name the ex-guard, one of over 50 facing charges

By David McHugh and David Rising

Topic: Majdanek

Holocaust survivor, 91, celebrates bat mitzvah in Argentina

Eugenia Unger, who was in the Warsaw Ghetto and Auschwitz, says ceremony was ‘the culmination’ of her life

Austria’s rising far-right seen as proof of failure to address Nazi past

With country on the verge of electing president from nationalist Freedom Party, experts blame Vienna’s reluctance to confront its history

Polish town names square after Knesset deputy speaker’s family

Skulsk calls plaza after Hilik Bar’s great-grandfather Yitzhak Kotowski, who perished in Majdanek concentration camp

There are still Treblinka survivors living. One tells his tale

Now in Sweden, 89-year-old Leon ‘Poldek’ Rytz remains active in spreading his tale of survival in the face of genocide

No new building on mass graves, say Sobibor activists

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

Prisoner shoes stolen from Nazi death camp museum

Police launch investigation after footwear goes missing at Majdanek; hole discovered in display

Jewish founder of Brazil’s largest retail chain dies

Business mogul Samuel Klein, who escaped from a Nazi death camp, passes away from respiratory failure

Body of missing Polish Holocaust scholar found

Robert Kuwalek, 47, disappeared in Ukraine on Thursday; cause of death still unknown

German probe finds 20 former death camp guards

State prosecutors to pursue accessory to murder charges; 220 others still being investigated but yet to be located

World’s oldest man is 111-year-old Holocaust survivor

Alexander Imich, born in 1903, escaped Nazis and Soviet gulag to dedicate his life to studying the occult

Germany arrests 3 Auschwitz guard suspects

Police raid homes of 9 men and detain 3, aged 88, 92 and 94, who are suspected of serving in the SS during WWII

Death camp museum worker accused of making anti-Semitic fliers

Police say Majdanek memorial employee printed anti-Jewish posters at museum, helped hang them around Lublin

‘Polish death camp’ designation sparks protest by Poles

Museum directors at Nazi death camps in Poland object to the use of ‘Polish’ in describing them

Turkish students use Nazi salute at concentration camp

From the web Two youths arrested after flashing Hitler greeting at an Israeli delegation in Majdanek, Poland, Today’s Zaman reports

Auschwitz Nazi suspect said living in Israel

German prosecutors office won’t name the ex-guard, one of over 50 facing charges

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