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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 560

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Jewish and Christian clergy stand together for prayers for the souls of some 60 Jews murdered by the occupying Nazi German forces during a ceremony marking a memorial to the victims in Wojslawice, Poland, October 14, 2021. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)
October 20, 2021, 3:13 am
Not forgotten: Mass graves of Jewish Holocaust victims dedicated in Poland
New technology and old memories help to find and secure burial sites of Jews shot and buried by German forces in fields and forests across the country
By Vanessa Gera
A security guard stands at attention after lowering the Swedish flag to half-staff on the roof of the Swedish parliament the Riksdag, in Stockholm, Sweden, January 1 2005. (AP Photo/Pressens Bild, Jack Mikrut)
November 9, 2020, 11:33 am
Sweden grapples with ‘guilty conscience’ over ignored Holocaust tip-off
On a train in 1942, an SS officer told a Swedish diplomat of the industrialized murder of Jews at the Belzec extermination camp. But the horrifying revelation was kept under wraps
By Johannes LEDEL
Holocaust denying writer and historian David Irving (AP/Alik Keplicz/File)
March 24, 2019, 1:33 pm
Poland says Holocaust denier David Irving ‘not welcome’ on death camp tour
After Israeli appeal, Warsaw says it won’t allow British conspiracy theorist to ‘present his opinions’ during planned visit
By ToI Staff
Holocaust denying writer and historian David Irving (AP/Alik Keplicz/File)
March 20, 2019, 12:36 pm
Israel urges Poland to deny entry to British Holocaust denier David Irving
Minister Naftali Bennett says Irving will offend survivors and stoke anti-Semitism if he is allowed to lead tour of Nazi death camps in September
By ToI Staff
Holocaust denying writer and historian David Irving (AP/Alik Keplicz/File)
March 19, 2019, 9:06 am
British Holocaust denier David Irving to lead Nazi death camp tour
Publicity for the $3,650 trip calls the camps ‘controversial’ and describes Irving as a ‘Hitler expert’
By Marcy Oster
Beginning in 1942, Jews in the Lodz ghetto of Nazi-occupied Poland were deported to death camps including Chelmno and Auschwitz-Birkenau. (Yad Vashem)
January 3, 2019, 5:05 pm
How I measured murder rates during the Holocaust
An investigation into what is referred to as Operation Reinhard, the Nazi slaughter of over 1.5 million Jews in a period of just 100 days
By Lewi Stone
A Holocaust memorial created in the 'sauna' facility of the former German 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
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
At the 'Auschwitz Synagogue' in Oswiecim, Poland, October 2017 (Matt Lebovic/The Times of Israel)
December 3, 2017, 11:40 am
In the shadow of Auschwitz, Jewish life once flowed with spirits
Before the Nazis erased centuries of Jewish life in Oswiecim, Poland, the town was called a ‘city of Israel,’ with thriving Yiddish culture and one of Poland’s first factories
By Matt Lebovic
The former Nazi death camp Sobibor, in eastern Poland, where more than 200,000 Jews were murdered during the Holocaust. A long-anticipated museum and visitor center is under construction, September 30, 2017 (Elan Kawesch/The Times of Israel)
October 17, 2017, 11:49 am
At former Nazi death camp Sobibor, a post-Holocaust construction boom
After decades of obscurity, a one-time Nazi-built extermination center is being transformed to commemorate Jewish victims and attract more visitors
By Matt Lebovic
Samuel Kassow with his daughter Serena Kassow on the set of 'Who Will Write Our History?' in Poland, based on Samuel Kassow's book about the 'Oneg Shabbat' archive, May 2016. (Courtesy)
August 5, 2016, 6:06 am
Warsaw ghetto’s secret archive goes Hollywood
New film based on two recovered document troves — out of three buried during the Holocaust — depicts the ‘Oneg Shabbat’ archive’s creators, few of whom survived the Nazi regime
By Matt Lebovic
A small crowd attends the dedication ceremony of a monument at the Jewish cemetery in Rychwal, Poland. (Ruth Ellen Gruber/JTA)
July 12, 2014, 3:28 pm
Has Poland become a model of Holocaust memorials?
A renewal of memory — from Belzec to Rychwal — leaves room for optimism, says chief rabbi Michael Schudrich
By Ruth Ellen Gruber
Lviv, Ukraine (Wikimedia Commons/Lestat/Jan Mehlich/CC BY-SA 2.5)
June 8, 2014, 11:28 pm
Body of missing Polish Holocaust scholar found
Robert Kuwalek, 47, disappeared in Ukraine on Thursday; cause of death still unknown
By JTA
Main entrance to Auschwitz (CC BY-SA Tulio Bertorini)
February 20, 2014, 7:06 pm
Germany arrests 3 Auschwitz guard suspects
Police raid homes of 9 men and detain 3, aged 88, 92 and 94, who are suspected of serving in the SS during WWII
By David Rising
File photo of Berthold Beitz, 2012 (photo credit: Frank Augstein/AP)
July 31, 2013, 10:27 pm
German who saved hundreds of Jews in Poland dies at 99
Industrialist Berthold Beitz named Righteous Among the Nations in 1973 and honored by Germany in 2000 for actions during Holocaust
By Kirsten Grieshaber
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