Bergen-Belsen

Yaron Roksa holds pen confiscated by the Nazis from his father at Neuengamme concentration camp in 1944. The pen was returned to the Roksa family by ITS on July 3, 2018. (Laura Ben-David/Courtesy of ITS)

July 11, 2018, 6:34 pm

Nazi-confiscated pen helps ToI track down survivor’s son, rewrite family history

International Tracing Service and Times of Israel journalist jointly find descendants of Istvan Rokza, to restitute his stripped possessions and unearth buried heritage

By Renee Ghert-Zand

June 9, 2018, 12:27 pm

‘Bride of Belsen’ Holocaust survivor who treated Anne Frank dies aged 95

Gena Turgel survived the Krakow ghetto, a death march, and the Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen camps

By TOI staff

Sam Bloch speaking during a ceremony marking the 60th anniversary of the liberation of the Bergen-Belsen camp on April 17, 2005. (JOCHEN LUEBKE/AFP/Getty Images)

February 6, 2018, 6:27 am

Sam Bloch, survivor who devoted life to memory of Shoah, dies at 94

Bloch organized gatherings for survivors in US and Israel and helped found international fundraising arms of Yad Vashem and IDF

By JTA

At the Westerbork museum in the Netherlands, Bas Kortholt demonstrates a new virtual reality simulation based on the former Nazi transit camp's appearance during the Holocaust (Elan Kawesch/The Times of Israel)

January 15, 2018, 10:02 pm

At Westerbork, virtual reality simulations ‘recreate’ the Nazi transit camp

Holland-based museum pilots a new GPS-based model to let visitors envision the Holocaust site -- down to bricks, strands of barbed wire, and imperfections on wooden shingles

By Matt Lebovic

In this Sept. 12, 2016 file photo Hubert Zafke sits in a courtroom ahead of his trial in Neubrandenburg, eastern Germany. (Bernd Wuestneck/dpa via AP)

August 31, 2017, 3:01 pm

German case against Auschwitz medic, 96, to be thrown out

Medical evaluations find wheelchair-bound Hubert Zafke -- who faced 3,681 charges of accessory to murder -- unfit for trial

By AFP

Judith Jones during an interview in her kitchen on October 21, 2013. (Screen capture/YouTube)

August 2, 2017, 11:59 pm

US editor who ‘rescued’ Anne Frank’s diary dies at 93

Judith Jones, who also introduced the world to American culinary writer Julia Child, passes away in her Vermont home

By AFP

A model of a V2 rocket, Hitler's secret weapon at La Coupole History and Memory Center in northern France. (AFP/Philippe Huguen)

May 17, 2017, 5:21 pm

France to shine light on men put to work on Hitler’s secret weapon

Little is known about the thousands forced to toil on the development of V2 rocket that Hitler hoped would bring Europe to its knees

By Renaud Lavergne

People stand behind the gate with the inscription 'Arbeit macht frei' (work sets you free) at the Sachsenhausen Nazi death camp in Oranienburg, about 35 kilometers north of Berlin, April 23, 2017. Commemorations will be held on Sunday on the occasion of the 72th anniversary of the liberation of the camp. (AP/Markus Schreiber)

April 23, 2017, 8:06 pm

Ceremonies mark liberation of 2 Nazi camps 72 years ago

'By remembering, we want to give space in our lives for the dead and the survivors,' says Germany's culture minister

By AP

Karla Raveh at her home in Kiryat Tiv'on, Israel on February 21, 2017 (Renee Ghert-Zand/TOI)

March 4, 2017, 9:21 am

90-year-old Holocaust survivor leads double life in Israel and Germany

For the past 30 summers, Kiryat Tivon homemaker Karla Raveh has returned to her hometown of Lemgo, where she is an unlikely celebrity

By Renee Ghert-Zand

Anne Frank, age 12, at her school desk in Amsterdam in 1941. (AP Photo)

December 17, 2016, 2:36 am

New study casts doubt on whether Anne Frank was betrayed

Research indicates Nazi raid in which teenage diarist was caught may have been part of probe into illegal labor or falsified ration coupons at house where she and other Jews hid

By Mike Corder

Former SS medic Hubert Zafke, 95, accused of aiding in 3,681 murders in Auschwitz in 1944, attends his trial on September 12, 2016 at the court in Neubrandenburg, Germany. (AFP/dpa/Bernd Wüstneck)

October 7, 2016, 4:14 am

German trial of Auschwitz medic collapses over bias complaints

No retrial date set for Hubert Zafke, 96, on charges of at least 3,681 counts of accessory to murder at Nazi concentration camp

By AFP

Ruth Bader Ginsburg at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Michigan, Feb. 6, 2015. (Carlos Osorio/AP Images)

October 2, 2016, 8:06 pm

Read Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s essay in shul bulletin at 13

Jurist penned letter urging congregants to rid themselves of hate and prejudice

By JTA

Shaul Ladany in his suburban Beersheba home with a prized piece of his Theodor Herzl collection, left. (Hillel Kuttler/JTA)

August 20, 2016, 4:45 am

At 80, a Munich Olympics and Holocaust survivor is still the sportsman

Shaul Ladany, a racewalker who holds a world record, welcomes IOC's official memorial for his 11 teammates who were killed by terrorists at 1972 games

By Hillel Kuttler

A memorial stone for Anne Frank and her sister Margot on the grounds of the former Prisoner of War (POW) and concentration camps Bergen-Belsen in Bergen, north of Hanover, central Germany, on June 21, 2015. (AFP / NIGEL TREBLIN)

June 13, 2016, 5:24 am

Who owns the diary of Anne Frank?

On the occasion her 87th birthday, an update on the world's latest commercial incarnations of the human face of Holocaust victims

By Matt Lebovic

Izak Sagui (left) and his long lost brother Shep Shell reunite after seven decades with their biological mother in 'Aida's Secrets.' (Courtesy)

May 22, 2016, 1:25 am

After 70 years, man born in DP camp meets unknown brother(s)

Film documents the unraveling of a family mystery as an Israeli man discovers that finding one brother in Canada is only beginning of his search for the truth

By Renee Ghert-Zand