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Screen capture from video of Rabbi Aryeh Hendler leading a tour at the Majdanek concentration camp site in Poland, November 2017. (Hadashot news)
November 29, 2017, 1:56 pm
In a concentration camp, a rabbi celebrates his grandson’s circumcision
Aryeh Hendler, unable to attend ceremony in Israel, connects via video link as he leads a tour at Majdanek in Poland
By Stuart Winer
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)
October 20, 2017, 2:02 pm
Ex-Nazi Majdanek guard, 96, charged with complicity to mass murder
Suspect, who has not been named, also said involved in 'Operation Harvest Festival,' in which at least 17,000 Jews were shot in November 1943
By AFP
Holocaust survivor Eugenia Unger, 91, of Buenos Aires, finally celebrates her bat mitzvah. (Facebook screenshot via JTA)
April 3, 2017, 6:44 pm
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
Austrian presidential candidate Norbert Hofer at a Governmental TV channel event in Vienna, May 22, 2016. (Jan Hetfleisch/Getty Images/JTA)
December 2, 2016, 11:02 pm
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
Labor's Hilik Bar addresses the Knesset (Flash90)
May 7, 2016, 9:38 am
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
Treblinka survivor Poldek (Leon) Rytz, 89, dances with wife Ester Dyna Rytz, 86, in 2007 in Sweden. (courtesy)
February 22, 2016, 8:33 pm
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
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)
February 6, 2015, 5:08 pm
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
Visitors walk the grounds of Majdanek, where more than 75,000 prisoners were murdered during the Holocaust (Photo credit: Yossi Zeliger/Flash90)
November 25, 2014, 11:02 pm
Prisoner shoes stolen from Nazi death camp museum
Police launch investigation after footwear goes missing at Majdanek; hole discovered in display
By AFP
Samuel Klein, the founder of Brazilian retail giant Casas Bahia. (YouTube screenshot)
November 21, 2014, 10:16 pm
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
Lviv, Ukraine (Wikimedia Commons/Lestat/Jan Mehlich/CC BY-SA 2.5)
June 8, 2014, 11:28 pm
Body of missing Polish Holocaust scholar found
Robert Kuwalek, 47, disappeared in Ukraine on Thursday; cause of death still unknown
By JTA
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)
May 21, 2014, 2:28 am
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
The oldest man in the world, 111-year-old Holocaust survivor Alexander Imich, in an interview with NBC News, May 2014 (screen capture: YouTube)
May 7, 2014, 4:16 pm
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
Main entrance to Auschwitz (CC BY-SA Tulio Bertorini)
February 20, 2014, 7:06 pm
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
Visitors walk the grounds of Majdanek, where more than 75,000 prisoners were murdered during the Holocaust (Photo credit: Yossi Zeliger/Flash90)
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
Visitors walk the grounds of Majdanek, where more than 75,000 prisoners were murdered during the Holocaust (Photo credit: Yossi Zeliger/Flash90)
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
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