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A Vienna subway stop in 2008. (Dieter Nagl/AFP/Getty Images)
October 20, 2017, 9:36 pm
Vienna subway remembers city’s little-known apartment concentration camps
Installation commemorates two houses on small street that were used as 'mini-concentration camps' before deportations
By Cnaan Liphshiz
Austrian Chairman of the Austrian People's Party (OeVP) Sebastian Kurz (R) is welcomed by Austrian President Alexander Van der Bellen before a meeting at the Hofburg palace in Vienna on October 20, 2017. (AFP/APA/Hans Klaus Techt)
October 20, 2017, 3:53 pm
Austria’s Kurz tapped to form government, expected to include far right
People's Party leader tipped to become world's youngest leader; conservative politician says he sees eye-to-eye with the Freedom Party on a range of issues
By Simon Sturdee
Austrian Foreign Minister Sebastian Kurz holds a press conference, after being appointed as head of the country's center-right People's Party (OeVP) on May 14, 2017, in Vienna, Austria. (Joe Klamar/AFP)
September 15, 2017, 4:18 pm
Austria’s ‘wonder boy’ on course for election win at just 31
Sebastian Kurz, described as country's most talented politician since Haider, follows hard right line on immigration
By Simon Sturdee
(FILES) This file photo taken on April 17, 2015 shows a memorial stone outside the house where Adolf Hitler was born in Braunau Am Inn, Austria on April 18, 2015. (Joe Klamar/AFP)
June 30, 2017, 8:14 pm
Austrian court: Hitler house expropriation stands
Government took control of dilapidated building after owner refused to sell it or to carry out essential renovation
By AFP
Ali Sahintuerk (L) of the First Vienna Football Club 1894 greets the fans after the regional League East game between First Vienna Football Club 1894 vs Parndorf in the Hohe Warte stadium in Vienna, on March 10, 2017. (AFP PHOTO / ALEX HALADA)
May 1, 2017, 8:39 pm
Austria’s oldest soccer club, founded by a Rothschild, faces final whistle
123-year-old First Vienna FC, started by English gardeners for the banking heir, declares bankruptcy before relegation
By Simon Sturdee
File: Hitler assesses looted art (photo credit: YouTube screenshot)
April 23, 2017, 6:06 pm
Nazi-pillaged artwork to be auctioned in Vienna
‘Portrait of a Man’ by Bartholomeus van der Helst taken during Holocaust from the famous Adolphe Schloss collection
By TOI staff
Illustrative photo of a Jewish cemetery (Foundation for the Preservation of Jewish Heritage in Poland)
April 8, 2017, 2:14 am
Online ad leads Vienna couple to buy ancient Jewish headstone for $300
19th-century tombstone handed on to president of Graz Jewish community, who is trying to locate cemetery from which it was taken
By JTA
Illustrative: A Border Police officer arrests a Palestinian man in the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Jabel Mukaber on September 18, 2015. (Israel Police)
March 12, 2017, 2:10 pm
Ya’alon quits Likud party, says it has ‘changed its face’
Israel busts 2 Palestinians 'plotting shooting' for Hamas; sandstorm forces Tel Aviv-bound flight to return to Vienna; Erdogan levels 'Nazism and fascism' charge against Netherlands
By Ilan Ben Zion
Demonstrators protest President Donald Trump's executive immigration ban, at O'Hare International Airport in Chicago, Illinois, January 29, 2017. (AFP/Joshua LOTT)
January 30, 2017, 10:13 pm
US ban forces Iranians home after days at Vienna airport
Elderly couple and an unrelated middle-aged woman held out hope they would be able to complete trips to visit family in US
By AFP
Michael Shinagel, former dean, was the longest-serving person in the position in Harvard's history. Here he is pictured in his office. (Rich Tenorio/Times of Israel)
January 26, 2017, 11:47 am
How an escape from the Nazis colored the career of Harvard’s longest-serving dean
Now retired, Michael Shinagel reflects on his family’s flight from Vienna and how he, a boy who didn't know English until age 7, earned a PhD in literature
By Rich Tenorio
Signature page of Sigmund Freud's signed physician's oath dated April 30, 1883, which goes on auction on January 26, 2017. (Nate D. Sanders Auctions)
January 23, 2017, 11:27 pm
Signed Freud papers set to go on auction
Rare documents belonging to father of psychoanalysis among items up for sale in LA on Thursday, along with a letter from Dachau and a royal decree from Ferdinand and Isabella
By Ilan Ben Zion
Ari Rath in 2013. (CC BY-SA Franz Johann Morgenbesser, Flickr)
January 13, 2017, 2:15 pm
Former Jerusalem Post editor Ari Rath dies at 92
Israeli-Austrian journalist led newspaper for 14 years, expected to be buried in Israel
By TOI staff and AP
Freedom Party leader Heinz-Christian Strache casts his vote in national elections at a polling station in Vienna, Austria, September 29, 2013. (AFP)
December 28, 2016, 8:41 am
Russia’s chief rabbi blasted for meeting Austrian far-right leader
Vienna rabbis condemn visit with Heinz-Christian Strache, leader of Freedom Party that wants to ban ritual slaughter
By JTA
Nikolaus Wostry, head of Film Collections of Filmmarchiv Austria, shows an old damaged film at Filmarchiv Austria in Laxenburg on November 15, 2016. (AFP PHOTO / JOE KLAMAR)
December 1, 2016, 8:31 pm
Austria races against time to preserve anti-Nazi film
Full version of 1924 silent movie that proved disturbingly prophetic in its dark depiction of European anti-Semitism discovered by chance at a Paris flea market last year
By Sophie MAKRIS
Ceramicist and 'The Hare With Amber Eyes' author Edmund de Waal (Ben McKee)
November 22, 2016, 4:01 pm
How tiny Japanese sculptures prompted a quest into Jewish roots — and Nazi looting
On emotional first visit to Israel, Edmund de Waal, heir to the mighty Ephrussi banking dynasty wiped out by Nazis, says his bestselling 'The Hare with Amber Eyes' is his proactive means of restitution
By Renee Ghert-Zand
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