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Shoes taken from victims at the Nazi-built death camp Auschwitz-Birkenau, some of which are part of a global tour of artifacts from Auschwitz-Birkenau launched in December 2017 (Courtesy of Musealia)
December 9, 2017, 2:18 am
Global tour of Auschwitz relics begins seven-year, 14-city journey
Part of efforts to keep Holocaust memory alive in an uncertain world, a roving exhibition of artifacts from Auschwitz-Birkenau premieres in Madrid
By Matt Lebovic
At the 'Auschwitz Synagogue' in Oswiecim, Poland, October 2017 (Matt Lebovic/The Times of Israel)
December 3, 2017, 11:40 am
In the shadow of Auschwitz, Jewish life once flowed with spirits
Before the Nazis erased centuries of Jewish life in Oswiecim, Poland, the town was called a 'city of Israel,' with thriving Yiddish culture and one of Poland's first factories
By Matt Lebovic
Tony Hovater, the white nationalist profiled by the New York Times (YouTube screenshot)
December 1, 2017, 3:48 am
With ‘GoyFundMe,’ white supremacists raise money for NY Times neo-Nazi
In crowdfunding campaign, Tony Hovater's allies blame 'communists, Antifa and general basement-dwelling ne’er-do-wells' for his firing
By Ben Sales
Visitors to the exhibition 'Auschwitz. Not long ago. Not far away' on November 28, 2017 at the Arte Canal Exhibition Centre in Madrid. (AFP/Gabriel Bouys)
November 29, 2017, 11:54 pm
Madrid opens first global roving Auschwitz exhibit
In the face of rising xenophobia around the world, 'exhibition can play a crucial role,' official behind project says
By Laurence BOUTREUX
A museum worker carries a 19th century painting during a presentation ceremony in Warsaw, Poland on November 29, 2017. (AP Photo/Alik Keplicz)
November 29, 2017, 9:58 pm
Painting looted during WWII returns to Poland with US help
FBI agents in Pennsylvania recover 19th century painting by Polish artist Robert Sliwinski, which was stolen by the Nazis
By AP
Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman star in the 1942 classic film 'Casablanca' (Courtesy Warner Bros. Films)
November 25, 2017, 3:27 pm
You must remember this: ‘Casablanca’ at 75
The story of star-crossed lovers whose union must be sacrificed for the sake of fighting the Nazis remains one of Hollywood's most beloved, and relevant, films
By Frankie TAGGART
The Semer Project performed at Tufts University in Medford, Massachusetts, on Nov. 14, 2017 (Ilene Perlman/Jewish Arts Collaborative)
November 23, 2017, 10:14 pm
Saved in a musical ‘Noah’s Ark,’ pre-Holocaust Jewish music performed again live
A shellac disc trove of sacred -- and very profane -- pre-WWII music rescued 15 years ago spurs creation of an ensemble that honors slain musicians' resistance to genocide
By Matt Lebovic
A monument of Christopher Columbus, at Columbus circle in New York City (YouTube)
November 18, 2017, 12:49 am
Christopher Columbus monument slammed by some at NYC hearing
Meeting held as part of commission set up by mayor in order to develop guidelines on addressing statues that may be seen as 'inconsistent' with city's values
By REBECCA GIBIAN
Students at Milecimo da Silva High School recently simulating Nazi human experiments in Rio De Janeiro, Brazil. (Screenshot from Facebook via JTA)
November 14, 2017, 8:03 pm
Brazil high schoolers simulate Nazi human experiments for science fair
Brazil's umbrella Jewish group says exhibition meant to highlight alleged scientific progress by Nazi doctors in concentration camps
By JTA
This photograph taken on November 10, 2017 shows an Indonesian family preparing to take a photograph with a life-size wax sculpture of Adolf Hitler at a museum in Yogyakarta (AFP / HENRYANTO)
November 11, 2017, 7:58 am
Indonesian museum removes Nazi-themed exhibit after outrage
Display featured a life size wax sculpture of Hitler standing in front of a huge photo of the gates of Auschwitz
By AFP
Gretel Bergmann (Margaret Lambert) competing in 1930s Germany (Bettmann, Courtesy of Olympic Channel)
November 8, 2017, 3:11 pm
How a talented German-Jewish high jumper’s dreams came crashing down in 1936
Documentary premiering November 9 on the Olympic Channel recounts when German medal contender Margaret Lambert was banned from competing because of her religion
By Renee Ghert-Zand
The Habima plaza (photo credit: Miriam Alster/Flash 90)
November 7, 2017, 1:55 am
Israel’s national theater asked to perform in Nazi Germany, telegram reveals
Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels accepted inquiry of Jewish actors, who made it to the country before learning the gig had been cancelled
By TOI staff
A visitor watches the paintings "Melancholisches Maedchen", left, and Nackte Frau im Walde" of German painter Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, in the exhibition 'Status Report Gurlitt. degenerate art - confiscated and sold' in the Kunstmuseum in Bern, Switzerland, Wednesday, November 1, 2017. (Peter Klaunzer/Keystone via AP)
November 1, 2017, 8:53 pm
Hundreds of Nazi-looted artworks go on display in twin exhibitions
450 pieces from Gurlitt collection displayed in Switzerland and Germany to shed light on systematic theft from Jewish collectors
By Madeleine SCHWARTZ
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
The former Nazi death camp Sobibor, in eastern Poland, where more than 200,000 Jews were murdered during the Holocaust. A long-anticipated museum and visitor center is under construction, September 30, 2017 (Elan Kawesch/The Times of Israel)
October 17, 2017, 11:49 am
At former Nazi death camp Sobibor, a post-Holocaust construction boom
After decades of obscurity, a one-time Nazi-built extermination center is being transformed to commemorate Jewish victims and attract more visitors
By Matt Lebovic
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