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Topic: Yad Vashem

May 11, 2013
8:42 am

Holocaust survivor Rivka Fringeru, 82, left, holds hand with Cynthia Wroclawski, director of the Yad Vashem names collection project, Sunday, May 5, 2013. (photo credit: AP/Ariel Schalit)

Holocaust memorial races to collect victims’ names

Yad Vashem’s record-the-memories project hopes to clear the 5 million mark in the next few years; few believe it can go much higher

By Aron Heller

May 7, 2013
1:29 pm

This image provided by the US Holocaust Memorial Museum shows Bulgarian policemen overseeing the deportation of Macedonian Jews to the German death camps in March 1943 in Bulgarian occupied Skopje. (photo credit: AP Photo/U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, Courtesy of Jewish Historical Museum, Belgrade)

Bulgarian honor bid in DC stirs Holocaust debate

Street-naming controversy underscores difficulty reconciling heroic individual deeds with the record of a nation as a whole

By Eric Tucker and Randy Herschaft

April 28, 2013
11:36 pm

Polish politician and historian Wladyslaw Bartoszewski (photo credit: CC BY, by Bronisław Komorowski, Wikimedia Commons)

Polish politician to receive Elie Wiesel Award

US Holocaust Museum’s highest honor goes to Auschwitz survivor Wladyslaw Bartoszewski, who rescued Jews during World War II

April 13, 2013
2:23 am

People enter the Museum of the History of Polish Jews, in Warsaw, Poland (photo credit:AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)

Warsaw Ghetto memorial reflects a changing Poland

Museum exhibits to celebrate centuries of Jewish life, confront Poles with their country’s own dark chapters of anti-Semitism

By Vanessa Gera

April 8, 2013
1:13 pm

IDF Chief of Staff Benny Gantz visiting the Auschwitz death camp in Poland, as he takes part in the 'March of the Living' on the eve of Holocaust Remembrance Day, April 7, 2013. (photo credit: Moshe Milner/GPO/Flash90)

Remembering, and vowing to protect

Failed cyberattacks and Gazan rockets fill the country’s present, as citizens bow their heads to mourn the past

By Aaron Kalman

April 8, 2013
11:21 am

Israelis stand still in the center of Jerusalem to mark Holocaust Remembrance Day, on April 8, 2013. (photo credit: Yossi Zamir/Flash90)

Israel stops to remember 6 million killed in Shoah

Two minutes of silence mark Holocaust Remembrance Day as ceremonies take place across the country

By Gavriel Fiske and Aaron Kalman

April 7, 2013
6:32 pm

Local Zionist youth group outing in Halle, 1937. Eber's older sister Lore is at far left in first row. (photo credit: courtesy)

When Hitler and Schindler are the same character

A Chinese translation of Irene Eber’s Holocaust memoir ‘The Choice’ exposes unique cross-cultural linguistic quandaries

By Renee Ghert-Zand

April 7, 2013
2:28 pm

In this April 4, 2013 photo, Warsaw Ghetto Holocaust survivor Aliza Vitis-Shomron, nee Mendel, holds a photograph of herself when she was about 17 years old as she sits in her living room in Kibbutz Givat Oz, Israel. (AP/Ariel Schalit)

Warsaw ghetto survivor carries out 70-year-old mission

Aliza Mendel was only 14 when she was ordered to escape and tell the world how her fellow Jews died fighting the Nazis

By Aron Heller

April 7, 2013
9:21 am

An Israeli boy at the 'From Holocaust to Revival' museum in Kibbutz Yad Mordechai (photo credit: Flash90)

Israel marks Holocaust Remembrance Day

Main ceremony to take place at Yad Vashem at 8 p.m. as country honors the 6 million Jews murdered in the Shoah

By Aaron Kalman

April 4, 2013
3:53 pm

A hanukkiyah retrieved from a European flea market returns to its original purpose. (Courtesy of Bill Frankel)

Lost to the Nazis, then to flea markets, now back in use

Decades after the Holocaust, victims’ ritual objects fill European bazaars — but are being rescued by a new organization

By Matt Lebovic

April 2, 2013
2:32 pm

Peretz Hochman circa 1942. (photo credit: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum)

Warsaw Ghetto hero, a ‘Cigarette Seller,’ dies

Polish resistance fighter Peretz Hochman’s wife, Sima, will light his torch at Yad Vashem on Holocaust Remembrance Day

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

April 2, 2013
2:26 pm

Belarus to build Jewish museum inside old synagogue

Museum part of a $1 million renovation project of the Bykhovsky castle complex in town near Minsk

March 31, 2013
11:41 am

An image of Tadeusz Pankiewicz adorns a display in Krakow's newly refurbished Pharmacy Under the Eagle. (Courtesy of Monika Bednarek/Historical Museum of Krakow)

Pharmacy that aided Jews in Krakow Ghetto reopens

The only gentile-owned business to operate in the area, the Pharmacy Under the Eagle is now a museum

By Nissan Tzur

March 24, 2013
11:10 pm

Elhanan Ostrowitz at the Jerusalem Magistrate's Court, 2012 (photo credit: Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Haredi man petitions court against Remembrance Day siren

Elhanan Ostrowitz, found guilty of vandalizing memorial sites last year, calls nationwide siren a ‘classic characteristic of a dictatorship’

By Aaron Kalman

March 22, 2013
3:29 pm

US President Barack Obama walks out of the Hall of Remembrance at the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial in Jerusalem on Friday (photo credit: AP/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Obama ends historic Israel trip with symbolic stops

Trips to Mount Herzl and Yad Vashem preceded a visit to Bethlehem’s Church of the Nativity, as the US president says goodbye

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