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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 365

Auschwitz-Birkenau

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
Elzbieta Cajzer, head of the museum's collections department, shows a collection of shoes that belonged to child victims of the former Nazi death camp Auschwitz-Birkenau at the conservation laboratory on its grounds, Oswiecim, Poland, May 10, 2023. (AP Photo/Michal Dyjuk)
May 15, 2023, 11:24 am
Auschwitz museum begins heartrending work preserving 8,000 shoes of murdered children
In two-year effort, museum processing 100 shoes a week while other evidence, such as hair shaved from victims, turns to dust as the years pass since Holocaust
By Vanessa Gera
At Auschwitz, Holocaust survivors prepare for the March of the Living, April 18, 2023. (Canaan Lidor/Times of Israel)
April 18, 2023, 4:08 pm
At Auschwitz March of the Living, displays of Jewish unity in a sea of Israeli flags
During the 35th annual 3-kilometer march at the former extermination camp, sorrow, shock but also pride and gratitude are exhibited by 9,000 participants from all over the world
By Canaan Lidor
Warsaw Ghetto set ablaze by the SS following the prisoner uprising in April 1943 (Z. L. Grzywaczewski / from the family archive of Maciej Grzywaczewski, POLIN Museum)
April 17, 2023, 4:06 am
Yad Vashem marks 80 years since Warsaw Ghetto Uprising for Yom HaShoah remembrance
The legendary Warsaw revolt and other acts of Jewish resistance — both physical and spiritual — are focus of this year’s Yom HaShoah commemoration at Yad Vashem
By Matt Lebovic
David “Saba” Wisnia in a scene from 'How Saba Kept Singing.' (Retro Report via JTA)
April 15, 2023, 5:15 pm
Clinton-produced ‘How Saba Kept Singing’ tells story of cantor’s Auschwitz survival
PBS documentary, to air on Yom Hashoah, recounts how David Wisnia stayed alive for three years at notorious death camp by entertaining Nazi guards with operatic voice
By Gabe Friedman
A man looks to a painting '4900 Colours (excerpt)' in a new exhibition with art works of German artist Gerhard Richter at the New National Gallery in Berlin, Germany, Friday, March 31, 2023. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)
March 31, 2023, 7:09 pm
Berlin museum displays works by artist who grapples with Germany’s Nazi past
Basis of Gerhard Richter paintings are 4 abstract photos secretly taken in 1944 by Jewish prisoners at Auschwitz-Birkenau extermination camp, who risked their lives doing so
By Kirsten Grieshaber
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