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Activists hold a banner reading 'Remove the Plaque' as Croatian Prime Minister Andrej Plenkovic (C,R) walks during a ceremony honoring the victims of its most brutal World War II death camp in Jasenovac, on April 23, 2017. (AFP/STRINGER)
April 23, 2017, 7:51 pm
Anti-fascists, Jews boycott Croatia memorial at WWII death camp
Opponents hold own memorial, denouncing what they believe to be a resurgence of sympathies for pro-Nazi Ustasha regime in government
By AFP
Screenshot from 'The Memory of Justice' by director Marcel Ophuls. (Courtesy HBO)
April 23, 2017, 3:08 pm
The four-and-a-half-hour Nazi documentary you can’t afford to miss
First released 40 years ago, 'The Memory of Justice' uses the Nuremberg Trials as a springboard for unanswerable questions. A newly restored version will be streaming on HBO from April 24
By Jordan Hoffman
Erected in 2005, a statue of Anne Frank stands close to the Frank family's former apartment in Amsterdam's River Quarter, January 2017 (Matt Lebovic/The Times of Israel)
April 21, 2017, 4:45 pm
In Anne Frank’s childhood neighborhood, the buildings do not forget
The iconic diarist last walked along the River Quarter's wide boulevards 75 years ago, but sites tied to her youth remain untouched in a city known for makeovers
By Matt Lebovic
Jonas Žvinys
April 21, 2017, 3:52 pm
In Lithuania, plans to honor a Nazi
On reports that a Catholic church may pay tribute to alleged Holocaust perpetrator Jonas Žvinys
By Paul Alster
Jews digging a trench in which they were later buried in, after being shot, in Ponary, Poland. (Courtesy of Yad Vashem)
April 15, 2017, 8:38 am
Science helps verify an unbelievable Holocaust escape account
The story of a band of Lithuanian Jews who dug their way to freedom was met with widespread skepticism over the years. A new TV program sheds light on their incredible tale
By Tom Tugend
Adolph Hitler (seated, far left) posed with fellow soldiers during their World War I service for Germany (Public domain)
April 13, 2017, 11:30 pm
Did Hitler fake being a victim of gas warfare?
Almost a century ago, an injured German corporal named Adolf Hitler claimed to be a casualty of British-deployed mustard gas. But was it a smoke screen?
By Matt Lebovic
White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer speaks during a forum at the Newseum in Washington, DC, April 12, 2017. (AFP Photo/Saul Loeb)
April 12, 2017, 7:21 pm
Spicer: ‘I let the president down’ over Hitler comments
Press secretary also says timing of remarks during Passover and Easter Holy Week 'compounds' his 'reprehensible' mistake
By Alexander Fulbright
The Associated Press photographs the third anniversary of National Socialism's accession to power in 1933 widely celebrated throughout Germany on Feb. 11, 1936. At noon, Adolf Hitler assembled 25,000 of his oldest stormtroop comrades in the Lustgarten in Berlin. In his address, Hitler reiterated Germany’s will to peace. This is a general view of the banner and flag bearers in Berlin. (AP Photo)
April 12, 2017, 4:41 pm
Germany denounces Spicer’s Hitler comparisons as bad idea
Merkel spokesman tells reporters any analogy 'with the crimes of National Socialism leads to nothing good'
By AFP and TOI staff
An image of the Marvel Comics superheroes by Marcello Silk Screen artist. (Flikr/Public Domain)
April 10, 2017, 1:14 am
‘Marvel’ retracts hidden anti-Jewish messages in comic
Indonesian illustrator of 'X-Men Gold #1' included references to Koranic verses warning against friendship with non-Muslims
By TOI staff
Sarin gas in 105 mm artillery shells being stored at a US site (illustrative photo: Courtesy)
April 8, 2017, 12:32 am
Sarin: Lethal nerve gas that kills in minutes
Discovered in Nazi Germany, chemical agent was used by Saddam Hussein's regime to gas thousands of Kurds in 1988
By AFP
In this Dec. 28, 1962 file photo, anti-Stalinist poet Yevgenny Yevtushenko speaks during a reading of his poetry in Moscow's Tschaikovsky Concert Hall in Moscow. (AP Photo)
April 4, 2017, 3:21 am
When a poet confronted Russia with the Holocaust
With 'Babi Yar,' Russia's beloved dissident Yevgeny Yevtushenko forced his countrymen to acknowledge their roles in the mass genocide of their Jewish neighbors
By Matt Lebovic
Former London mayor and senior Labour Party official Ken Livingstone on March 30, 2017. (Screen capture: YouTube)
March 30, 2017, 6:03 pm
Ken Livingstone sparks fresh row with SS, Zionist collaboration claim
Prior to hearing for saying Hitler was a supporter of Zionism, ex-London mayor now says Nazis set up training camps for German Jews
By Alexander Fulbright
Painting of Chaim Rumkowski, chairman of the Lodz Ghetto's Jewish Council, created by Lodz painter Izrael Lejzerowicz during the ghetto's four-year existence (Public domain)
March 28, 2017, 8:48 pm
‘King Chaim,’ ruler of the Lodz Ghetto, exposed in Boston exhibit
As Henryk Ross's haunting photographs premiere in the US, a snapshot of the Lodz ghetto council's infamous chairman Chaim Mordechai Rumkowski -- who thought himself a Jewish 'savior'
By Matt Lebovic
Ingeborg Syllm-Rapoport holds up her doctoral certificate during a ceremony at the University Clinic Hamburg-Eppendorf in Hamburg, Germany, June 9, 2015. (Bodo Marks/dpa via AP)
March 27, 2017, 9:28 pm
Germany: Doctorate recipient who defied Nazis dies at 104
77 years after completing thesis on diphtheria, Ingeborg Syllm-Rapoport earned the PhD the Nazis had denied her
By AP
In this May 2014 photo, Michael Karkoc works in his yard in Minneapolis. (Richard Sennott/Star Tribune via AP)
March 19, 2017, 2:55 am
Son of US man accused in Nazi massacre demands evidence be shown
After Poland issues warrant, Andriy Karkoc says father did not kill civilians as commander in SS-led unit, asks senators to intervene
By Amy Forliti
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