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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 620

Bergen-Belsen

Asaf Cafri (left), an IDF reservist who was killed in Gaza on April 25, 2025, and his great-grandmother, Holocaust survivor Magda Baratz, pictured on a billboard set up in Rishon Lezion in honor of Holocaust Remembrance Day, the day before his death. (Oren Dai/Rishon Lezion Municipality)
May 11, 2025, 4:45 pm
Holocaust survivor dies 2 weeks after great-grandson killed in Gaza as she visited Nazi camp
Asaf Cafri died in Strip while great-grandmother Magda Baratz and his father visited Bergen-Belsen; her son says death of Asaf was ‘very hard’ for her
By Zev Stub
Sweater that Chana Zumerkorn from Lodz gave to her brother Joseph when they parted during the Holocaust (Yad Vashem Artifacts Collection, Gift of Joseph Zumerkorn, 11735)
April 23, 2025, 7:59 am
Clothing historian stitches together Holocaust history by focusing on ‘women’s work’
Nonfiction ‘Four Red Sweaters’ tells wartime stories of four young Jewish women while examining larger questions such as Nazis’ circular economy and perpetrator psychology
By Renee Ghert-Zand
Erected in 2005, a statue of Anne Frank stands close to the Frank family's former apartment in Amsterdam's River Quarter, January 2017. (Matt Lebovic/The Times of Israel)
August 4, 2024, 6:03 pm
Anne Frank statue in Amsterdam park vandalized again with pro-Palestinian graffiti
Police say memorial defaced for second time in less than a month
By AFP
Windows at the Foundation for Memorial Sites in Lower Saxony, in the town of Celle, Germany, were found vandalized, Aug. 15, 2023. (Foundation for Memorial Sites in Lower Saxony)
August 17, 2023, 2:58 am
Office that manages Holocaust memorial sites in Germany has windows shattered
Police looking for witnesses of vandalism at Foundation for Memorial Sites in Lower Saxony, which oversees memorials at Bergen-Belsen and Wolfenbüttel Prison
By Toby Axelrod
Screen capture from video of US soldiers helping Jewish prisoners liberated from a Nazi death train near Farsleben, Germany April 1945. (YouTube screenshot; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
August 2, 2023, 11:12 pm
Newly found video shows moments US troops saved thousands of Jews from Nazi train
Researcher finds archived video of liberation of Bergen-Belsen camp prisoners near Farsleben in 1945; survivors identify themselves in clip
By Stuart Winer
Judah Samet walks around the Tree of Life Synagogue, October 24, 2019, in the Squirrel Hill neighborhood of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. (AP Photo/Keith Srakocic)
September 29, 2022, 11:32 pm
Holocaust survivor who escaped Tree of Life synagogue massacre dies at 84
‘Only people like me can bear witness’: Judah Samet survived the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, served in IDF, and lived through 2018 attack on Pittsburgh synagogue
By AP
Menachem Rosensaft, left, accompanies Israeli President Isaac Herzog, right, on a visit to the Bergen Belsen concentration camp, September 6, 2022. (Shahar Azran/WJC via JTA)
September 8, 2022, 3:28 am
From concentration camp to DP camp: Why activist associates Bergen-Belsen with life
Holocaust remembrance activist Menachem Rosensaft says site’s transformation allowed his parents to again be treated as human beings who could ‘dream rather than endure nightmares’
By Toby Axelrod
German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier (R), his wife Elke Buedenbender(L), Israel's President Isaac Herzog (2nd-R) and his wife Michal Herzog (2nd-L) visit the Gedenkstaette Bergen-Belsen Memorial, site of the concentration camp where thousands of prisoners were killed during World War II, in Bergen-Belsen near Nordhausen, central Germany, on September 6, 2022. (Ronny Hartmann/AFP)
September 6, 2022, 8:55 pm
Ending Germany trip, Herzog visits concentration camp his father helped liberate
‘In this terrible place, we remember the imperative that is binding on us all: the imperative of life,’ president says at Bergen-Belsen after meeting survivors, high schoolers
By ToI Staff and Agencies
Israeli Olympic race walker Shaul Ladany poses for a photo at the entrance of the Nazi concentration camp Bergen-Belsen in Bergen, Germany, Sept. 3, 2022. (Markus Schreiber/AP)
September 4, 2022, 10:42 am
Survivor of Holocaust and Munich Olympic attack visits Germany for memorial event
Shaul Ladany was able to escape before Palestinian terror group captured him in 1972 massacre; shows family where he was previously held at Bergen-Belsen camp
By Kirsten Grieshaber
Olga Czik Kay (Courtesy of Yad Vashem)
April 26, 2022, 10:38 pm
Survivor Olga Kay passes Holocaust education torch to youth to keep fighting denial
Ahead of participation in state Yom Hashoah ceremony, 96-year-old who beat Auschwitz and two other camps says, ‘We must tell our story and keep memory alive’
By Renee Ghert-Zand
Franci Rabinek Epstein and daughter Helen Epstein, New York, c. 1950s. (Courtesy of Helen Epstein)
October 10, 2020, 9:24 am
Sexually explicit memoir of women’s abuse in Nazi camps finally sees light
Second-generation trauma expert Helen Epstein publishes late mother Franci Rabinek Epstein’s manuscript, initially rejected in mid-1970s for being ahead of its time
By Renee Ghert-Zand
This photo taken on January 31, 2018 ,shows Holocaust survivor and cellist Anita Lasker-Wallfisch addressing the Bundestag (Germany's lower house of parliament) in Berlin during the annual ceremony in memory of Holocaust victims and survivors (John MACDOUGALL / AFP)
May 10, 2020, 11:20 am
Long-silent Auschwitz cellist finds her voice in fight against fascism
For years, Anita Lasker-Wallfisch could not talk about her time playing music a few meters from the crematorium, but now she’s speaking out against rising dangers of anti-Semitism
By Yannick Pasquet
Visitors walk past the gate, inscribed with the words: 'Arbeit Macht Frei' (Work makes you free) of the former Sachsenhausen concentration camp, now a memorial, in Oranienburg, Germany, February 7, 2020. (John MACDOUGALL/AFP)
April 19, 2020, 11:34 pm
Germany marks Holocaust anniversary in shadow of virus
Trio of former Nazi concentration camps mark 75 years since their liberation, in dramatically scaled back ceremonies
By AFP
Ceremonial burning of last hut at Bergen-Belsen, Germany, 1945 (public domain)
April 17, 2020, 6:34 am
75 years ago this week, ‘typhus fever’ met its match at Bergen-Belsen
In ‘All the Horrors of War,’ a survivor’s daughter describes how H. L. Glyn Hughes, first Allied Medical Officer to enter Nazi ‘horror camp,’ strived to save lives after liberation
By Matt Lebovic
One of several mass graves at the memorial site on the grounds of the former Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. The sign reads: 'Here lie 5,000 dead. April 1945.' (Photo credit: CC, BY-SA Drow69/Wikimedia)
April 15, 2020, 8:18 pm
Germany marks liberation of Bergen-Belsen Nazi camp as memorial event canceled
State of Lower Saxony asks residents to observe minute of silence; commemorations of 75 years since end of WWII have been hampered by coronavirus restrictions
By AFP
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