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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 592

Danube River

A World War II-era German warship is seen in the Danube River in Serbia, August 19, 2022. (Video screenshot: Twitter)
August 20, 2022, 7:30 pm
Drought exposes dozens of Nazi ships sunk in Danube River
Over 20 explosive-laden warships resurface in eastern Serbia, blocking shipping and posing danger to fishing industry
By ToI Staff
A ZAKA diver describes the search for remains of Holocaust survivors in the Danube River in Hungary to Interior Minister Aryeh Deri in January 2019. (Courtesy of ZAKA)
January 22, 2019, 3:35 am
In Hungary, internal Jewish fighting taints effort to bury Holocaust victims
The most recent dispute over search for remains in the Danube River is part of a larger struggle — over attitudes toward the nation’s controversial government
By Cnaan Liphshiz
Candles burn in front of the cast iron shoes at the Holocaust Memorial on the quay of the River Danube, during International Holocaust Remembrance Day in Budapest, Hungary, Wednesday, Jan. 27, 2016 (Balazs Mohai/MTI via AP)
January 17, 2019, 10:57 pm
Hungary’s largest Jewish group urges halt to Danube search for Holocaust victims
Mazsihisz warns Israeli-led effort, apparently backed by local Orthodox and Hasidic organizations, needlessly disturbs the dead and may violate halacha
By ToI Staff
A ZAKA diver describes the search for remains of Holocaust survivors in the Danube River in Hungary to Interior Minister Aryeh Deri in January 2019. (Courtesy of ZAKA)
January 16, 2019, 6:38 pm
No remains of Holocaust victims unearthed in sweep of the Danube
Rabbi from Jewish search and rescue group says sonar scans of Budapest river find nothing; second scan planned
By Cnaan Liphshiz
Shoes on the Danube, a Holocaust memorial to victims of the Arrow Cross who were shot on the bank of the river Danube in Budapest during the Holocaust. (Flickr/Neil)
January 15, 2019, 12:42 am
Israeli divers to search for Holocaust victims’ remains in the Danube
Thousands of Jews were murdered on banks of Hungarian river in 1944. Now Budapest is backing Zaka rescuers’ project to scour river for their remains
By ToI Staff
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife Sara at the shoes memorial for Holocaust victims on the bank of the Danube in Budapest, July 20, 2017. (GPO)
July 20, 2017, 5:26 pm
‘Never again,’ declares Netanyahu at Hungarian Holocaust memorial
Prime minister visits ‘Shoes on the Danube’ site, places a small stone brought with him from Jerusalem
By ToI Staff
The Margaret Bridge in Budapest (CC-BY-SA VinceB/Wikimedia Commons)
April 15, 2016, 6:34 pm
Remains of Jewish Holocaust victims laid to rest in Hungary
Bones of people believed massacred by Nazi allies were discovered during 2011 renovation work of Budapest bridge
By AFP
Tommy Lapid reporting from Adolf Eichman's trial in Jerusalem 1961. (Government Press Office/Israel National Photo Collection)
April 6, 2016, 9:10 pm
Hungarian students stage Holocaust play for school competition
Dramitization by Christian teens portraying late Israeli politician and Budapest ghetto survivor Tommy Lapid wins state-sponsored contest
By JTA
File: Backdropped by the illuminated Chain Bridge, people light candles in front of the cast iron shoes at the Holocaust Memorial on the quay of the River Danube, during International Holocaust Remembrance Day in Budapest, Hungary, Wednesday, Jan. 27, 2016. (Balazs Mohai/MTI via AP)
February 25, 2016, 8:08 pm
Hungarian Jewry to bury Holocaust victims’ remains found in Danube
The bones, which belong to Jews who were murdered on the banks of the river, are to be interred in a Jewish site
By JTA
Aerial view of the rising water of the flooding River Danube approaching the Parliament building, center, in Budapest, Hungary on Friday. (photo credit: AP Photo/MTI, Sandor Ujvari)
June 8, 2013, 1:30 pm
Floods wreak havoc in Hungary, central Europe
Some Jewish cemeteries could be flooded, Jewish Federation spokesperson says ahead of Monday, when highest water levels expected in Budapest
By JTA, AP and ToI Staff
Members of the Weinrauch family, including future filmmaker Gita, center, remained in Vienna until after WWII was underway. (Courtesy of Gita Kaufman)
March 12, 2013, 3:12 pm
75 years after Anschluss, Nazi ‘Shadows’ haunt Austria
On the anniversary of the country’s union with Hitler, a former child refugee preps for the premiere of her long-gestating film
By Matt Lebovic
May 28, 2012, 3:44 pm
Budapest Holocaust memorial defaced
The vandalism came days after bloody pigs’ feet were hung on a Budapest statue of Wallenberg
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