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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
Oldrich Stransky, b. 1921, photographed in Prague, Czech Republic, 2014. (Dennis Carlyle Darling)
May 6, 2024, 3:48 am
Last Terezin survivors memorialized by US photographer in decade-long project
Dennis Darling’s recently published large-format book includes black-and-white portraits and moving testimonies of Jews who were children and teens in Nazi ghetto near Prague
By Renee Ghert-Zand
Alon Beker and Michal Meron pose inside their art gallery in Venice. (Orge Castellano/JTA)
April 23, 2022, 4:22 am
Venice’s frayed, shrinking 500-year-old Jewish Ghetto is planning a renaissance
Down from a pre-Holocaust peak of 5,000, the city’s 450 remaining Jews face numerous struggles, including rising water levels. They’re launching a grassroots revitalization effort
By Orge Castellano
From left: Renia Kukiełka in Budapest, 1944. (Courtesy of Merav Waldman); Tosia Altman (Courtesy of Moreshet, Hashomer Hatzair Archives); Courier Hela Schüpper (left) and Akiva leader Shoshana Langer disguised as Christians on the Aryan side of Warsaw, June 26, 1943. (Courtesy of Ghetto Fighters’ House Museum, Photo Archive)
April 7, 2021, 3:08 am
Smuggler, fighter, courier, spy: How Jewish women defied the Nazis in Poland
In ‘The Light of Days,’ author Judy Batalion tells the extraordinary tale of myriad brave females who took leading roles in clandestine, armed struggle in ghettos and forests
By Renee Ghert-Zand
Illustrative: Kosher butchers picket outside a shop in the heart of a Jewish neighborhood on Orchard Street in New York's Lower East Side, October 4, 1937. (AP Photo)
March 2, 2020, 2:47 am
From Venice, to Nazis, to US inner cities — how the ghetto got its name
Prof. Daniel B. Schwartz studies the evolution of a word that’s kept outsiders out and insiders in — voluntarily and involuntarily — and been used as a tool for over 500 years
By Rich Tenorio
Fabio Penazzo, a hotel manager in Venice's Jewish ghetto, says God helped keep the damage to a minimum in record-setting flooding last November. Photo taken on December 28, 2019. (Giovanni Vigna/ Times of Israel)
January 17, 2020, 5:53 am
Damaged but not drowned, Venice Jewish ghetto counts its blessings after flood
November’s record deluge caused an estimated billion dollars in damage citywide, but the historic enclave central to a close-knit community got off relatively easy
By Giovanni Vigna
Jewish gravestones piled in a heap at the Brest Fortress in Belarus. (photo credit: Ilan Ben Zion/Times of Israel staff)
February 22, 2019, 12:43 pm
Remains of hundreds of slain victims discovered at former Belarus Jewish ghetto
Bodies of men, women and children found with gunshot wounds to their skulls; Nazis killed 800,000 Jews in the country during WWII
By Cnaan Liphshiz
Dr. Mahmoud Habbash, Supreme Sharia Judge in the Palestinian Authority and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas’s adviser on religious and Islamic affairs. (Courtesy)
July 7, 2018, 10:23 am
Abbas adviser compares Israeli security at Temple Mount to Nazism, Inquisition
Mahmoud Habbash laments restrictions on Muslim access to Al-Aqsa Mosque: ‘Are they trying to do to others what was done to them?’
By ToI Staff
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
Former Polish politician Kornel Morawiecki (CC BY-SA Kornel Morawiecki Election Committee, Wikimedia Commons)
March 20, 2018, 10:45 pm
Father of Polish PM says Jews gladly moved to ghettos, aided Germans
Kornel Morawiecki asserts Jews went themselves because they were told that they would not have to deal with ‘those nasty Poles’ during Holocaust
By JTA
A rededication ceremony at the New England Holocaust Memorial in Boston, Massachusetts, following an act of vandalism, on July 11, 2017. (Matt Lebovic/The Times of Israel)
July 12, 2017, 12:16 pm
Boston Holocaust memorial rededicated after vandalism
After one of the Shoah memorial’s glass towers was shattered last month, community leaders gather to unveil repairs and praise Boston’s response to the incident
By Matt Lebovic
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, DC. (Wikimedia Commons)
June 4, 2017, 10:25 pm
US Holocaust museum releases online encyclopedia of Nazi sites
Two volumes covering early concentration camps, ghettos now available; third part to come out in 2018
By JTA
Graves of Jewish victims of the Iași pogrom in Romania on July 1, 1941. (Wikimedia commons)
May 22, 2017, 7:32 am
Romania to raise payments for Holocaust survivors
From July, state to pay up to $98 per month for each year of a person’s deportation or detention
By JTA
People place white roses on a memorial that was unveiled in the German port city of Hamburg to Jewish and Roma residents who were killed during the Nazi Holocaust, Wednesday, May 10, 2017. (Christophe Gateau/dpa via AP)
May 10, 2017, 6:33 pm
Hamburg unveils memorial to Jews, Roma killed in Holocaust
Plaque lists names of thousands who were deported from train station to death camps between 1939 and 1945
By AP
Over 200 attend the funeral of Holocaust survivor Hilde Nathan, February 27, 2017. (Jacob Israel/United with Israel)
April 24, 2017, 6:10 am
Alone in life, some Holocaust survivors pass with no one to bury them
For every funeral of a family-less survivor attended by 100s of strangers, there are those buried with barely enough people present for kaddish
By Marissa Newman
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