January 24, 2015
1:55 am

In this photo taken Thursday, Jan. 22, 2015, Marta Wise holds a famous black-and-white photo, taken by the Russian liberators of Auschwitz, showing her, center, with about a dozen children in rags standing behind a row of barbed wire (photo credit: AP/Dan Balilty)

70 years after Auschwitz liberation, a survivor remembers

Marta Wise weighed only 17 kilograms when Russians arrived at death camp, after she had been subject to cruel experiments

By Aron Heller

January 17, 2015
10:49 pm

Raoul Wallenberg (photo credit: Wikimedia Commons)

Swedes mark 70 years since Wallenberg’s disappearance

Stockholm honors legacy of envoy who saved tens of thousands of Hungarian Jews from Holocaust

By AFP and Justin Jalil

December 22, 2014
5:47 am

Antony Lishak gives an interactive presentation on his new book 'Stars' at Jerusalem's Hebrew University High School on December 10, 2014. (Amanda Borschel-Dan/The Times of Israel)

Tale of Jews in WWII Polish zoo aims to open minds

Teacher and author Antony Lishak inspires Jerusalem high school students to write the narratives they’re not being taught

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

December 8, 2014
3:01 pm

Prof. Jan Grabowski, author of 'Hunt for the Jews: Betrayal and Murder in German-Occupied Poland.' (photo credit: YouTube screenshot)

‘Hunt for the Jews’ snags Yad Vashem book prize

Authored by Prof. Jan Grabowski of the University of Ottawa, text on Poles’ betrayal of their Jewish neighbors wins award

By JTA

December 4, 2014
1:44 pm

Published here for the first time, a fragment of a ceramic cup excavated at the former Nazi death camp Sobibor, in eastern Poland, printed with a Mickey Mouse cartoon is seen. The artifact was unearthed by archeologists Wojtek Mazurek and Yoram Haimi several months ago, and photographed on Nov. 11, 2014, outside Sobibor (photo credit: Matt Lebovic/The Times of Israel).

Is Sobibor to be the new ‘Disneyland’ of Nazi death camps?

Without a fence or a guard, Polish visitors walk their pets and ride bikes while crunching human bones lying exposed on the grounds

By Matt Lebovic

November 27, 2014
6:54 pm

President Reuven Rivlin meets with a delegation of imams from Senegal, at the President's Residence in Jerusalem on November 27, 2014. (photo credit: Mark Neyman/GPO/FLASH90)

Senegal imams tour Yad Vashem in tie-boosting trip

Itinerary includes prayer at al-Aqsa, visits to Haifa and Acre

By Stuart Winer

November 23, 2014
4:43 pm

Garden of the Righteous Among the Nations at Yad Vashem. (photo credit: courtesy)

14 honored in the Netherlands for saving Jews during WWII

Diplomats bestow ‘Righteous Among the Nations’ award posthumously to pair of sisters who helped smuggle Jews to Spain, a dozen others

By JTA

November 3, 2014
10:35 pm

Controversial actress Natali Cohen Vaxberg (YouTube/screenshot)

Controversial artist arrested for defecating on state flag

Graphic video by actress Natali Cohen Vaxberg prompts police to place her under house arrest until Wednesday

By AFP

November 3, 2014
8:57 pm

Controversial actress Natali Cohen Vaxberg (photo credit: YouTube)

Probe ordered for flag-pooping artist

Controversial actress Natali Cohen Vaxberg will be investigated for desecrating national symbol

By Times of Israel staff and AFP

October 16, 2014
2:51 pm

Designs by Hedy Strnad displayed at the Jewish Museum Milwaukee exhibit. (Courtesy Jewish Museum Milwaukee/JTA)

Exhibit recreates designs by ‘lady tailor’ turned away by FDR

Costume makers from local theater enlisted to create clothing based on Hedy Strnad’s Holocaust-era sketches for the Jewish Museum Milwaukee

By Rafael Medoff

October 1, 2014
5:14 pm

Holocaust survivor Isaac Revah, who was saved by Spanish diplomat Sebastian de Romero Radigales during the war (photo credit: Youtube screenshot)

Spanish diplomat posthumously honored as righteous gentile

Sebastian de Romero Radigales worked to repatriate 510 Jews with Spanish citizenship from Greece during the war

By JTA

September 24, 2014
2:32 pm

A bird's eye view of Yad Vashem and Mount Herzl (photo credit: Yossi Zamir/Flash 90)

Yad Vashem drops in tourism ranking

Listed 10th, Israel’s Holocaust memorial museum drops six spots from last year on TripAdvisor ranking of 25 best museums

By JTA

September 17, 2014
7:04 pm

The gas chambers at the Sobibor death camp in Poland (photo credit: Yoram Haimi)

71 years later, Sobibor gas chambers unearthed

Yad Vashem announces ‘very important’ find at death camp where 250,000 Jews were murdered over 18 months in 1942-3

By Marissa Newman

September 16, 2014
4:12 pm

Yaakov Weksler-Waszkinel shows off his new Israeli identity card at his home in Jerusalem. (photo credit: Renee Ghert-Zand/The Times of Israel)

When the Law of Return does not apply to a Holocaust survivor

Yaakov Weksler-Waszkinel, a Jewish-born, former Catholic priest, is denied automatic Israeli citizenship due to syncretic beliefs

By Renee Ghert-Zand

September 15, 2014
3:48 am

Yad Vashem archive director Haim Gertner shows a musical score with German lyrics at the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial archives in Jerusalem. September 8, 2014. (photo credit: AP/Sebastian Scheiner)

Holocaust experts work to preserve WWII-era items

As Yad Vashem gradually goes digital, workshop convenes to discuss physical conservation of original artifacts

By AP

Topic: Yad Vashem

70 years after Auschwitz liberation, a survivor remembers

Marta Wise weighed only 17 kilograms when Russians arrived at death camp, after she had been subject to cruel experiments

Swedes mark 70 years since Wallenberg’s disappearance

Stockholm honors legacy of envoy who saved tens of thousands of Hungarian Jews from Holocaust

Tale of Jews in WWII Polish zoo aims to open minds

Teacher and author Antony Lishak inspires Jerusalem high school students to write the narratives they’re not being taught

‘Hunt for the Jews’ snags Yad Vashem book prize

Authored by Prof. Jan Grabowski of the University of Ottawa, text on Poles’ betrayal of their Jewish neighbors wins award

Is Sobibor to be the new ‘Disneyland’ of Nazi death camps?

Without a fence or a guard, Polish visitors walk their pets and ride bikes while crunching human bones lying exposed on the grounds

Senegal imams tour Yad Vashem in tie-boosting trip

Itinerary includes prayer at al-Aqsa, visits to Haifa and Acre

14 honored in the Netherlands for saving Jews during WWII

Diplomats bestow ‘Righteous Among the Nations’ award posthumously to pair of sisters who helped smuggle Jews to Spain, a dozen others

Controversial artist arrested for defecating on state flag

Graphic video by actress Natali Cohen Vaxberg prompts police to place her under house arrest until Wednesday

Probe ordered for flag-pooping artist

Controversial actress Natali Cohen Vaxberg will be investigated for desecrating national symbol

Exhibit recreates designs by ‘lady tailor’ turned away by FDR

Costume makers from local theater enlisted to create clothing based on Hedy Strnad’s Holocaust-era sketches for the Jewish Museum Milwaukee

Spanish diplomat posthumously honored as righteous gentile

Sebastian de Romero Radigales worked to repatriate 510 Jews with Spanish citizenship from Greece during the war

Yad Vashem drops in tourism ranking

Listed 10th, Israel’s Holocaust memorial museum drops six spots from last year on TripAdvisor ranking of 25 best museums

71 years later, Sobibor gas chambers unearthed

Yad Vashem announces ‘very important’ find at death camp where 250,000 Jews were murdered over 18 months in 1942-3

When the Law of Return does not apply to a Holocaust survivor

Yaakov Weksler-Waszkinel, a Jewish-born, former Catholic priest, is denied automatic Israeli citizenship due to syncretic beliefs

Holocaust experts work to preserve WWII-era items

As Yad Vashem gradually goes digital, workshop convenes to discuss physical conservation of original artifacts

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