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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 529

Euro 2012 football championships

Polish deputy foreign minister Beata Stelmach addresses a Warsaw conference organized by Never Again, an organization dedicated to fighting Eastern European anti-Semitism and racism. (Photo credit: Nissan Tsur)
October 25, 2012, 11:36 pm
Catholic Poles fight to ensure history doesn’t repeat itself
Warsaw-based Never Again organization draws high-level support as it battles anti-Semitism online, at sports stadiums and in the streets
Balotelli in action against England in Euro 2012. (CC-BY-SA-Илья Хохлов/Wikipmedia Commons)
July 1, 2012, 8:33 pm
Spain trounces Balotelli’s Italy 4-0 to win Euro 2012
The mercurial 21-year-old with the newly revealed Jewish heritage manages just two shots, off target. Read how Italy’s miserable night unfolded here
By Kayla J Adams
Mario Balotelli in action for Italy at Euro 2012. (photo credit: CC-BY-SA Олег Дубина//football.ua/Wikimedia commons)
June 29, 2012, 6:58 pm
The improbable Jewish ‘heritage’ of Italy’s goal-scoring eccentric
Soccer star Mario Balotelli dedicated the goals that took his country to Sunday’s Euro 2012 final to his Jewish foster mother Silvia
By ToI Staff
A Polish soccer fan cheers at a match between the Polish and Russian national teams during the Euro 2012 competition earlier this month (photo credit: CC-BY ND PolandMFA, Flickr)
June 14, 2012, 1:43 pm
On sidelines of Euro 2012, anti-Semitism is alive and kicking
Despite visits to Auschwitz by teams playing in the continent’s premier international competition, the venues of some of the games leave much to be desired
By Efraim Zuroff
Map of the Euro1945 educational sites (screen capture from www.euro1945.com)
June 10, 2012, 10:21 pm
Israeli students remember Shoah through Euro 2012
Social media campaign aims to educate soccer fans on the pre-war Jewish communities of cities where games are being held
Israeli soccer coach Avram Grant in 2009 (Abir Sultan/Flash90)
June 8, 2012, 9:56 pm
Avram Grant accompanies England players visiting Auschwitz ahead of Euro 2012
Former Chelsea manager tells players about his own relatives who died at the hands of the Nazis
By AP and ToI Staff
"Liga Terezin" portrait at Beit Theresienstadt. (photo credit: Gili Yaari/Flash90)
June 8, 2012, 5:08 am
Before Euro 2012, there was ‘the Theresienstadt League’
As European teams visit Auschwitz ahead of matches in Poland, Israeli filmmaker reveals stories of football in the Holocaust
By Shira Rubin
The Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp (Ilan Ben Zion/Times of Israel)
June 7, 2012, 8:12 am
Italy, Netherlands take a break from Euro soccer training to visit Auschwitz
‘I told my brother, if you come to see a match, you should go to the camps, too,’ says Italian defender Giorgio Chiellini
May 13, 2012, 10:11 am
Religious options for fans, players at Euro 2012
Clerics from Jewish, Muslim, Protestant and other faiths also took part in the dedication of a multidenominational chapel at Warsaw’s new National Stadium
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