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This photo from October 19, 2012, shows the gate of the former Nazi German death camp of Auschwitz in Oswiecim, Poland. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)
April 16, 2018, 4:18 pm
Germany charges 94-year-old former Auschwitz guard with abetting murder
Prosecutors accuse defendant of 'supporting camp operations and thus acts of extermination' at Nazi death camp
By AFP
IDF chief Gadi Eisenkot looks through a printed list of all identified victims of the Holocaust at the Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland on April 12, 2018. (Israel Defense Forces)
April 12, 2018, 9:05 pm
In Poland, IDF chief says military puts meaning behind ‘Never again’
Eisenkot marches alongside President Rivlin, senior security officials in March of the Living at Auschwitz
By Judah Ari Gross
Diarist Renia Spiegel, who was murdered by the Nazis at the age of 18 in Przemysl, Poland (courtesy: Renia Spiegel Foundation)
April 12, 2018, 7:33 pm
The lost diary of Poland’s ‘Anne Frank’: An untold testament of a truncated life
For decades, few people knew of Renia Spiegel or her journal. The Holocaust victim's sister and a determined filmmaker are working to change that
By Matt Lebovic
A group of Panama youth visit the former Nazi death camp of Auschwitz ahead of the yearly March of the Living, a Holocaust remembrance march, in Oswiecim, Poland on April 12, 2018. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)
April 12, 2018, 4:18 pm
Led by Israel’s President Rivlin, thousands attend March of Living in Poland
More than 12,000 people from 40 countries make two-mile march from Auschwitz to Birkenau, accompanied by heads of IDF, Mossad, Shin Bet and police
By TOI staff
Israeli forces are deployed near Kibbutz Nir Oz at the Gaza-Israel border amid smoke from tires burned by Palestinians near Khan Younis, in the southern part of the Gaza Strip on April 6, 2018. (AFP Photo/Menahem Kahana)
April 12, 2018, 1:55 pm
Palestinians say one killed, two hurt by IDF fire at Gaza border
Incidents come the day before latest mass-protests expected on Friday at the border fence
By TOI staff
People stand still on Jaffa road, central Jerusalem, as a two-minute siren is sounded across Israel to mark Holocaust Remembrance Day on April 12, 2018. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
April 12, 2018, 9:39 am
Israel solemnly remembers 6 million victims on Holocaust Remembrance Day
Nationwide sirens sound at 10 a.m., kicking off ceremonies throughout the country; President Rivlin leads 'March of the Living' at Auschwitz
By Michael Bachner, TOI staff and Agencies
IDF Chief Lt. Gen. Gadi Eisenkot leads a military delegation to the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp in Poland on April 23, 2017, ahead of Holocaust Remembrance Day. (IDF Spokesperson's Unit)
April 11, 2018, 6:32 pm
Amid Syria tensions, IDF chief to visit Poland for Holocaust Remembrance Day
Eisenkot to march alongside President Rivlin, senior security officials for memorial ceremony Thursday at Birkenau death camp
By Judah Ari Gross
Aftermath of the Babi Yar ravine massacre in Kiev, Ukraine, during which 33,000 Jews were murdered between Sept. 29-30, 1941. (public domain)
April 11, 2018, 3:40 am
In eastern Europe, when Nazis killed Jews, a ‘carnival atmosphere’ prevailed
In a new, second book about ‘Holocaust by bullets,’ Father Patrick Desbois depicts in grim detail local bystanders' culpability while Nazis implemented the Final Solution
By Matt Lebovic
People hold a banner as they walk towards the old railway station in Thessaloniki during a commemoration marking the departure of the first train from the northern Greek city to the Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland, held on March 18, 2018. (SAKIS MITROLIDIS/AFP)
March 18, 2018, 11:41 pm
Greeks delve back into Thessaloniki’s Jewish heritage
Mayor instigates annual commemoration for city's 50,000 Jews, nearly all of whom were deported and killed in Nazi death camps
By Marina RAFENBERG and Sakis MITROLIDIS
Convicted former SS officer Oskar Groening listens to the verdict of his trial on July 15, 2015, at court in Lueneburg, northern Germany (AFP PHOTO/TOBIAS SCHWARZ)
March 12, 2018, 10:12 pm
‘Bookkeeper of Auschwitz’ dies at 96, before he can serve term
Oskar Groening was sentenced to four years as accessory to murders of 300,000 Holocaust victims
By AFP
Barracks at the Auschwitz-Birkenau Museum after restoration, July 2016. (Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum via AP)
From the WebMarch 4, 2018, 3:43 pm
Amid Holocaust bill row, Auschwitz says false rumors flying
With Polish nationalism on the rise, museum at the former concentration camp says people are spreading fake stories, Bloomberg reports
Former Nazi SS officer Oskar Groening listens to the verdict of his trial on July 15, 2015 at court in Lueneburg, northern Germany. (AFP / POOL/ AXEL HEIMKEN)
March 1, 2018, 9:48 pm
Former German death camp guard, 96, submits new clemency bid
Ex-SS guard Oskar Groening convicted in 2015 as an accessory to the murder of 300,000 Jews at Auschwitz
By Agencies
Screenshots from YouTube videos related to the Holocaust history dispute between Israel and Poland. At left, a video from the Polish government's #GermanDeathCamps campaign. At right, a video produced by the Israeli group 'J-nerations,' February 2018.
February 23, 2018, 9:24 am
Poland-Israel Holocaust dispute hits the court of viral YouTube videos
Amid the diplomatic feud over Poland's new 'anti-defamation' law, Jewish activists push back on the Polish government for 'white-washing' anti-Semitism
By Matt Lebovic
The infamous German inscription that reads 'Work Makes Free' at the main gate of the Auschwitz I extermination camp in Oswiecim, Poland, on November 15, 2014. (Christopher Furlong/Getty Images via JTA)
February 2, 2018, 7:48 am
Decades after Holocaust, Poles still struggle with role
Bill designed to defend country's image abroad by criminalizing 'Polish death camps' phrase backfires, sparking diplomatic row with Israel and sharp criticism from Jews worldwide
By AFP and TOI staff
Russian President Vladimir Putin, left, shakes hands with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during an event marking International Holocaust Victims Remembrance Day at the Jewish Museum and Tolerance Center in Moscow, January 29, 2018. (Vasily Maximov/AFP)
January 30, 2018, 10:01 pm
Drawing on politics of memory, Netanyahu working hard to woo Putin
Israeli leader plays heavy on Jewish-Russian bond forged from sufferings of both peoples during Second World War
By Cnaan Liphshiz
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