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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 428

Holocaust memorials

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer delivers remarks at the Holocaust Educational Trust's annual appeal dinner, Sep. 16, 2024. (Screenshot via YouTube/via JTA)
September 20, 2024, 7:44 am
UK’s Starmer pledges to build Holocaust memorial, mandate Holocaust education
Citing antisemitism spike post-Oct. 7, British PM pledges to build long-awaited memorial next to parliament ‘proudly, unapologetically’; says he will visit Auschwitz
By Jackie Hajdenberg
Fred Kormis in his studio in the 1980s. (Courtesy: Wiener Holocaust Library Collections via JTA)
September 10, 2024, 7:49 pm
The overlooked artist who escaped the Nazis and made the 1st UK memorial to their victims
A new display at London’s Wiener Holocaust Library follows the upheaval that plagued the life of little-known sculptor Fred Kormis, who focused on memorializing humans in captivity
By Shira Li Bartov
The 'Block of Women' monument in central Berlin commemorates the non-Jewish women who in 1943 publicly protested against the Nazis when their Jewish husbands and fathers were set to be deported. (Wikimedia via JTA)
August 30, 2024, 3:50 am
Berlin Holocaust memorial vandalized with antisemitic, pro-Palestinian graffiti
‘Block of Women’ monument, commemorating non-Jewish women who protested against Nazis, is daubed with ‘Jews are committing genocide,’ ‘Free Palestine’ and Palestinian flag
By Jackie Hajdenberg
A picture shows red hand graffiti painted on buildings' walls of the Sainte-Croix de la Bretonnerie street, in the area where earlier the Holocaust memorial was vandalized with the same red handprints in Paris, on May 14, 2024. (Antonin Utz/ AFP)
August 7, 2024, 5:40 pm
Suspect who painted red hands on Paris Holocaust memorial denies racial motives
One of three Bulgarian men fighting extradition to France claims it was ‘just hooliganism’ that led him to deface memorial; Sofia court postpones decision until September 26
By AFP
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
The 'Wall of the Righteous' (Mur des Justes) outside the Shoah memorial in Paris, France, is vandalized with red-hands graffiti, May 14, 2024. (Antonin Utz / AFP)
July 27, 2024, 5:49 am
Bulgaria says 3 held on suspicion of vandalizing Paris Holocaust memorial in May
Balkan nation’s security agency says the suspects ‘are known to gravitate around Bulgarian groups that profess far-right extremist ideology’
By AFP
Karen Frostig has been working for nearly two decades to build a memorial at Jungfernhof, the Latvian site where the Nazis likely murdered her grandparents. (Courtesy Mike E. Dunne/ via JTA)
June 19, 2024, 1:50 am
Artist fights for memorial to 4,000 Jews who died at Jungfernhof Nazi camp in Latvia
For 17 years Karen Frostig worked for recognition of the mostly German and Austrian Jewish victims who died at the poorly-documented site. Latvian officials are now showing support
By Deborah Lynn Blumberg
Red hands graffitis are seen on the "Wall of the Righteous" (Mur des Justes), in Paris, France, on May 14, 2024. (Antonin UTZ / AFP)
May 22, 2024, 6:53 pm
French police say suspects in Paris Holocaust memorial graffiti case fled to Belgium
Prosecutors say bus reservations made from Bulgaria; red hands, symbolizing calls for Gaza ceasefire, painted on wall honoring those who rescued Jews, surrounding buildings
By AFP and ToI Staff
A city employee cleaning the "Wall of the Righteous" (Mur des Justes) after the monument was vandalized in Paris, May 14, 2024. (Antonin Utz/AFP)
May 14, 2024, 10:31 pm
Paris memorial for people who saved Jews during Holocaust vandalized
Mayor Anne Hidalgo files complaint with Paris prosecutor and calls incident ‘unspeakable’ as wave of antisemitism in France continues to grow
By AP and ToI Staff
Matisyahu Grossinger, chairman of the board of the Kiddush Hashem Archive, an ultra-Orthodox Holocaust museum in Bnei Brak, lights a memorial candle at a memorial ceremony on May 7, 2024. (Yaakov Nachumi)
May 7, 2024, 11:02 pm
In Bnei Brak, Haredim host EU diplomats at an unusual Holocaust memorial
At the ultra-Orthodox Ganzach archive, ultra-Orthodox Jews learn about the Holocaust from a Haredi perspective, both historical and theological
By Sam Sokol
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
Konrad Kutt and Irena Aselmeier, founders of Germany's book box initiative, stand in front of the burned-out book box near the "Gleis 17" Holocaust memorial after an apparent arson attack. (Fabian Sommer/picture alliance via Getty Images via JTA)
August 15, 2023, 11:47 am
Mini library at Holocaust memorial in Berlin torched in suspected antisemitic act
Witnesses say they saw suspect start blaze inside the ‘Bucherboxx’ at train station in German capital; antisemitic note said found at scene
By Toby Axelrod
People walk through the Tiergarten Park, in Berlin, Germany, where a new memorial commemorating Jehovah's Witness victims of the Nazis is set to be built, February 25, 2021. (STEFANIE LOOS/AFP)
June 23, 2023, 11:49 am
German MPs back memorial for Jehovah’s Witnesses persecuted and killed by Nazis
Parliament calls on government to build monument in Berlin’s Tiergarten Park; foundation running existing sites says 1,700 followers of religion died under Third Reich
By AP
The Swiss house of Parliament in Bern, seen on August 15, 2022. (Fabrice COFFRINI / AFP)
April 26, 2023, 5:55 pm
Switzerland approves its first national memorial honoring victims of the Holocaust
The Swiss Federation of Jewish Communities umbrella group says that until now there have been only small, private sites dedicated to ‘the numerous Swiss victims of persecution’
By Jamey Keaten
'70 Years of Exile' by Karen Frostig (courtesy)
April 20, 2023, 5:16 am
Obscure Nazi concentration camp in Latvia put back on map by art professor
Karen Frostig’s ‘Locker of Memory’ project unites Jungfernhof survivors and descendants, officials in Latvia, around Holocaust ‘memory work’ including plan for on-site memorial
By Matt Lebovic
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