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A drawing by David Olere (YouTube)
October 31, 2018, 9:48 am
Auschwitz exhibits Jewish ex-prisoner’s depictions of the camp
David Olere’s paintings recall his experiences as member of the Sonderkommando, a unit that assisted in the operation of the crematoria and gas chambers
By Damien Simonart
Republican Representative Steve King of Iowa on Capitol Hill in Washington, on June 27, 2018. (AP/J. Scott Applewhite)
October 26, 2018, 2:39 am
GOP congressman sympathizes with Austrian far-right after Auschwitz visit
After going on trip to Poland funded by education group, Steve King meets with Freedom Party, says Germans shouldn’t have to apologize for Holocaust anymore
By Josefin Dolsten
This photo provided on October 24, 2018, by the Museum of the former Nazi German death camp of Auschwitz Birkenau, shoes the wood-and-ivory baton of Franciszek Nierychlo, Auschwitz prisoner and controversial organizer and first conductor of the inmates' orchestra, in Oswiecim, Poland. (Museum of the former Nazi German death camp of Auschwitz Birkenau/Marcin Inglot via AP)
October 25, 2018, 12:38 am
Auschwitz museum gets baton of Nazi death camp ‘kapo’
Conductor’s tool belonged to Franciszek Nierychlo, a Polish prisoner who camp survivors described as cruel and cooperative with the Germans
By MONIKA SCISLOWSKA
View taken on October 14, 2018. shows the monument commemorating victims of German-Nazi death camp in Auschwitz-Birkenau (Janek SKARZYNSKI / AFP)
October 16, 2018, 2:56 pm
Israeli teen fined for urinating on Auschwitz memorial
Polish court orders 19-year-old to pay $1,350 over March incident that was witnessed by a museum guide and others
By AFP
Image posted to Instagram and later deleted showing three youngsters performing a salute at Auschwitz, October 2018 (via Instagram)
October 10, 2018, 7:44 pm
Polish teens probed over photo of Nazi salute at Auschwitz
Museum spokesman says incident shows importance of education, months after spat between Israel and Poland over the latter’s Holocaust law
By JTA and TOI staff
Crematoria at the former Nazi death camp Auschwitz I. Their construction was a prelude to much larger crematoria complexes later constructed at Birkenau, or Auschwitz II, in Poland, October 2017 (Matt Lebovic/The Times of Israel)
October 4, 2018, 10:27 pm
Outsourced mass murder: How Topf & Sons engineered genocide from its boardroom
Among dozens of German companies that enabled the Holocaust, the opportunistic crematorium maker was indispensable, according to new book
By Matt Lebovic
In this file photo taken on January 15, 2015 French survivor of the Auschwitz-Birkenau camp Nazi concentration camp, film director and novelist Marceline Loridan-Ivens, poses in Paris (AFP PHOTO / DOMINIQUE FAGET)
September 19, 2018, 11:44 pm
Filmmaker Loridan-Ivens, Auschwitz companion of Simone Veil, dies at 90
Loridan-Ivens was taken to the Nazi camp when she was just 15, where she met Veil who was to become a lifelong friend
By AFP
Adolf Eichmann, so-called 'architect' of the Holocaust, in his prison cell during the time of his 1961 trial in Jerusalem (public domain)
August 30, 2018, 11:33 pm
The banality of lies: In ‘Operation Finale,’ Eichmann’s falsehoods are validated
Opening this weekend, the film, focused on the kidnapping of Holocaust ‘architect,’ humanizes its notorious antagonist and allows his deceptions to go unchallenged
By Matt Lebovic
People walk through the Nazi death camp Auschwitz-Birkenau in Oswiecim, Poland, on January 28. 2011. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski/ File)
July 15, 2018, 7:57 pm
Tourists charged with stealing bricks from Auschwitz memorial
Two Hungarians admit theft of a cultural asset, say they wanted to bring back a souvenir
By AFP and TOI staff
SS chief Heinrich Himmler (center) shakes hands with Hitler's photographer, Heinrich Hoffmann, around 1941 (public domain)
June 20, 2018, 1:57 pm
New book claims a ‘secret deal’ between Nazis and Allies cut the Holocaust short
Journalist Max Wallace writes that a hushed-up pact between Heinrich Himmler and his sworn enemies prompted the SS chief to destroy the gas chambers of Auschwitz. Experts disagree
By Matt Lebovic
Leni Riefenstahl directs 'Olympia,' based on the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin, Germany (public domain)
June 14, 2018, 9:03 pm
The quiet absolution of pro-Nazi filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl
As the Berlin Museum of Photography prepares an installation about the life of the ‘Triumph of the Will’ propagandist, scholars worry it validates her distorted take on history
By Matt Lebovic
A Holocaust memorial created in the 'sauna' facility of the former Nazi death camp Auschwitz-Birkenau, in Poland, with photographs of people deported there, October 2017 (Matt Lebovic/The Times of Israel)
May 31, 2018, 3:58 am
Defending Auschwitz selfies, a new book unpacks Holocaust tourism
While commemorating the genocide perpetuated by the Nazis, visitors to memorial sites are increasingly placing themselves in the frame
By Matt Lebovic
In this photo taken on November 14, 2004, a visitor reads about the 'Frankfurt Trial' of Auschwitz's Nazi commanders, initiated by German-Jewish Magistrate Fritz Bauer (L), at an exhibition at the Martin Gropius Museum in Berlin. (AFP/John MacDougall)
May 16, 2018, 6:15 pm
Auschwitz trial files designated UNESCO heritage
Records from the1963-65 Frankfurt trial, the first where Germans prosecuted Germans, to be preserved as ‘common heritage of humanity’
By AFP
The railway track leading to the infamous ‘Death Gate’ at the Auschwitz II Birkenau extermination camp on November 13, 2014, in Oswiecim, Poland. (JTA/Christopher Furlong/ Getty Images/File)
May 7, 2018, 9:13 pm
Israeli teen admits to urinating on Auschwitz memorial
Polish prosecutor says 19-year-old asks to pay fine as punishment for relieving himself at former Nazi death camp
By AFP
File: President Reuven Rivlin (left) shakes hands with Czech President Milos Zeman during a state visit to Prague. (Mark Neyman/GPO)
April 25, 2018, 2:37 pm
Czech president says his country plans to move its embassy to Jerusalem
Speaking at event honoring Israeli Independence Day in Prague, Milos Zeman says first of three stages of move will take place next month
By TOI staff
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