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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 477

Auschwitz-Birkenau

French holocaust survivor Esther Senot poses with a photo of her family during a photo session at the Institut des Invalides in Paris, on December 11, 2024. (Joel Saget / AFP)
January 24, 2025, 9:03 am
Auschwitz survivors return to death camp site, urging young visitors to remember
Esther Senot, 96, recalls vow to dying sister that if she made it out of the camp alive, she’d tell their story; Holocaust educators prepare for a future without survivors
By Claire Gallen
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz attends an event titled 'Day of Remembrance 80 Years Since the Liberation of Auschwitz - What Now?' on January 19, 2025 in Frankfurt am Main, western Germany. (Kirill KUDRYAVTSEV / AFP)
January 20, 2025, 11:31 am
Germany must never ‘turn the page’ on the Holocaust, says Scholz
Speaking at Jewish community event to mark 80th anniversary of Auschwitz liberation, chancellor notes ‘worrying and alarming normalization’ of antisemitism
By AFP and ToI Staff
Britain's Prime Minister Keir Starmer and his wife Victoria Starmer visit the Memorial And Museum Auschwitz-Birkenau in Oswiecim, Poland, Jan. 17, 2025. (Aleksandra Szmigiel/Pool via AP)
January 17, 2025, 7:47 pm
Visiting Auschwitz, UK’s Starmer decries ‘poison of antisemitism rising around the world’
British PM says trip to concentration camp enabled him to see more clearly how the industrial-level killing was ‘a collective endeavor by thousands of ordinary people’
By AP and ToI Staff
Poland's President Andrzej Duda (left) and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu are seen during the conference on Peace and Security in the Middle east in Warsaw, on February 13, 2019 (Janek SKARZYNSKI / AFP)
January 9, 2025, 5:39 pm
Poland says it will not arrest Netanyahu for ICC should he attend Auschwitz memorial
Polish government promises free and safe participation for Israelis after PM’s aide says no plans to attend events marking 80 years since liberation, citing war crimes warrant
By ToI Staff and Agencies
Holocaust survivor Lily Ebert and Dov Forman, authors of 'Lily's Promise.' (Courtesy)
October 9, 2024, 6:22 pm
Lily Ebert, Holocaust survivor who reached millions on social media, dies at 100
A native of Hungary, Ebert survived Auschwitz and built a family — first in the new State of Israel, then in the UK — and in recent years became a social media superstar
By Gila Kalman and ToI Staff
Dan Hadani visits the National Library of Israel during Passover in April 2024 (David Peretz/National Library of Israel)
May 8, 2024, 2:13 pm
100-year-old who shaped Israeli photojournalism takes stage to share Holocaust survival
Cultural icon Dan Hadani survived the Lodz Ghetto and multiple Nazi camps. A lifelong chronicler, he continues to tell his story at the National Library of Israel
By Maya Zanger-Nadis
A mural portraying Polish-Israeli Holocaust historian and educator Alex Dancyg, who was taken hostage from Kibbutz Nir Oz on October 7, 2023, with the subtitle referring to him as 'Ambassador of Dialogue,' can be seen in Warsaw, Poland on October 19, 2023. (Wojtek Radwanski/AFP)
May 6, 2024, 12:43 am
Son of Holocaust educator held hostage in Gaza joins March of the Living in Poland
Yuval Dancyg, whose father Alex was kidnapped from Kibbutz Nir Oz, joins Israeli delegation for annual Holocaust Remembrance Day event: ‘I dream of coming back here with my father’
By Agencies
A small Israeli flag on the rail tracks at the site of the former Auschwitz-Birkenau camp during commemorations to honor the victims of the Holocaust, near the historical gate of Birkenau (Auschwitz II) near the village of Brzezinka near Oswiecim, Poland on April 28, 2022. (Wojtek Radwanski / AFP)
May 4, 2024, 8:04 am
How Jewish world marking Yom Hashoah, months after deadliest day for Jews since Holocaust
March of the Living to be led by 55 survivors, including 7 also affected by October 7; while some double-survivors connect the two experiences, others caution against
By jacob gurvis
A screen grab from TV show 'The Tattooist of Auschwitz' (Used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
April 10, 2024, 9:18 am
‘The Tattooist of Auschwitz’ premieres: ‘In the worst of times there’s always hope’
TV show is based on bestselling novel inspired by story of Slovakian Jew Lali Sokolov; features performances by Harvey Keitel, Melanie Lynskey
By Reuters
Tourists visit the Holocaust Memorial in Berlin, Germany, on International Holocaust Remembrance Day, Jan. 27, 2024. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)
January 27, 2024, 3:56 pm
‘Never again is every day’: Scholz’s antisemitism warning on Holocaust Remembrance Day
Chancellor calls on citizens to remain vigilant against threats to democracy, says Germany will continue to carry the responsibility for Holocaust’s ‘crime against humanity’
By Kirsten Grieshaber
A rabbi says prayers on the eve of the 79th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau at the Monument to the Heroes of the Ghetto, in Warsaw, Poland, Jan. 26, 2024 (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)
January 27, 2024, 9:42 am
On Holocaust Remembrance Day, survivors mark 79th anniversary of Auschwitz liberation
Some 20 camp survivors will lay wreaths at the Death Wall in Auschwitz, hold prayers at the monument in Birkenau
By AP
An illustrative photo of electric fences with concrete posts and insulators surrounding the barracks where deportees where held at the Auschwitz concentration and death camp established by the Nazis. (Jack Guez/AFP)
January 26, 2024, 2:29 am
Six former Yugoslavia nations to renovate a barracks at Auschwitz
Block 17 project to include installation of permanent exhibit on the Holocaust in Yugoslavia, which saw the murder of some 66,000 of its 80,000 Jews
By AFP
Elon Musk carries his son X Æ A-Xii on his shoulders flanked by Ben Shapiro, right, Rabbi Menachem Margolin, second from left, and Gidon Lev at the Auschwitz-Birkenau museum in Poland on January 22, 2024. (Yoav Dudkevitch)
January 22, 2024, 9:55 pm
At Auschwitz, Musk says social media, free speech would have prevented extermination
On his first visit to Nazi death camp, owner of X dismisses allegations that his laissez-faire attitude is promoting antisemitism
By Canaan Lidor and Agencies
Rabbi Israel Goldwasser stands on the tracks leading to the main gate of Auschwitz-Birkenau. (Courtesy of Triumph of the Spirit)
June 27, 2023, 8:47 pm
Haredi filmmakers bring Israelis to Auschwitz in virtual reality tour
Designed to promote Holocaust education among the Israeli ultra-Orthodox community, ‘Triumph of the Spirit’ is a 360° guide through the extermination camp
By Charlie Summers
Almanya Narula, Nyani Totty and Sheer Aviram in the West Coast production of playwright Wendy Kout's 'Survivors,' May 2023 (Photo: Katherine Kohl)
June 3, 2023, 6:03 am
Inspired by ‘Hamilton,’ diverse docudrama based on survivor testimony is touring US
In under an hour, ‘Survivors’ touches on Nazi racial laws, Kristallnacht, and the Kindertransport rescue. ‘The survivors in the play are warning us,’ says playwright Wendy Kout
By Matt Lebovic
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