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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 567

Holocaust museum

Visitors discover the new room dedicated to the Holocaust, three days after its opening, at the Memorial of Caen, northwestern France, on April 4, 2025. (Lou Benoist/AFP)
April 18, 2025, 6:31 pm
Holocaust museums, seeking to center human experience, rethink use of graphic images
New exhibits emphasize victims’ identities in bid to restore their dignity, and renew focus on up-front killings, so ‘faceless’ death camps don’t obscure perpetrators’ moral agency
By Matthieu Clavel
The president of the Federal Republic of Germany Frank-Walter Steinmeier (L) with the president of the Central Board of Jewish Communities in Greece David Saltiel (C) and president of Greece Katerina Sakellaropoulou (R) pose with photographs during their visit at the site of the future Holocaust Museum in Thessaloniki on October 29, 2024. (Sakis Mitrolidis / AFP)
October 29, 2024, 5:22 pm
German president mourns Greek Jews killed in Holocaust at site of new Thessaloniki museum
Construction of museum, funded by German government, Greek municipal authorities and private donors, began earlier this year and is expected to take about two years
By COSTAS KANTOURIS
The interior of the Holocaust Center for Humanity in Seattle, Washington, March 31, 2016. (Screenshot via YouTube via JTA)
July 2, 2024, 6:30 am
US Holocaust museums slam vandalism in Seattle after police say it’s not a hate crime
‘The senseless scapegoating of Jews did not begin or end with the Holocaust,’ say 7 museums after ‘Genocide in Gaza’ scrawled over photo of child who survived Nazi genocide
By Andrew Lapin
President Isaac Herzog (right) at the dedication of a new Holocaust museum in Amsterdam on March 10, 2024. (President's Office)
March 10, 2024, 2:21 pm
Herzog inaugurates new Amsterdam Holocaust museum as protesters demand his arrest
Alongside Dutch king, Israeli president opens Netherlands’s National Holocaust Museum with call to remember ‘the horrors born of hatred’ as activists accuse him of genocide in Gaza
By Agencies and ToI Staff
Staff member Mrs. Walter at the Wiener Holocaust Library in 1952. (Wiener Holocaust Library)
February 13, 2024, 8:35 am
A Holocaust museum that predates WWII, London’s Wiener Library turns 90 this month
Founded in 1934 by Alfred Wiener, the museum exposed Nazis, helped the Allies battle them, and led to their conviction. Now it’s one of the world’s preeminent research institutions
By Robert Philpot
Artifacts from the Kraus family, who survived the Holocaust, on display at the Queensland Holocaust Museum in Brisbane, Australia, June 2023. (Queensland Holocaust Museum and Education Center)
January 27, 2024, 1:12 am
In Australia, a new Holocaust museum doubles down on its mission after Oct. 7
Because many of the Queensland Holocaust Museum’s visitors have never met a Jew, its strategy of outreach takes on added importance in its quest to educate on racial tolerance
By Nomi Kaltmann
Sen. Shenna Bellows, D-Manchester speaks at a hearing in Augusta to reverse changes to section 17 that resulted in many clients losing mental health services May 2, 2017. (Shawn Patrick Ouellette/Portland Portland Press Herald via Getty Images/via JTA)
December 30, 2023, 3:22 pm
Maine secretary of state who blocked Trump from ballot is ex-head of Holocaust center
Shenna Bellows has taken Trump off primary ballot – the second state, after Colorado, to rule the former president ineligible – based on 14th Amendment’s Insurrection Clause
By Andrew Lapin
Yad Vashem chief Dani Dayan in the Hall of Names at the Jerusalem museum, undated. (Alex Kolomoisky)
September 3, 2023, 10:03 am
123 Holocaust experts: Gov’t attack on Yad Vashem chief threatens memory of 6 million
Educators from around the world voice ‘great concern’ over coalition’s ostensible effort to dismiss Dani Dayan and replace him with a political appointment
By ToI Staff
Dani Dayan, head of Israel's Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial poses after a news conference in Berlin, Germany, Jan. 23, 2023. (AP /Markus Schreiber)
September 3, 2023, 12:55 am
US Holocaust envoy backs Yad Vashem head amid reported government efforts to oust him
Ellen Germain notes importance of ‘maintaining the independence of such institutions,’ as Netanyahu said seeking to appoint political ally as chairperson of museum
By ToI Staff
Screen capture from video of nazi demonstrators outside the Turning Point USA Student Action Summit in Tampa, Florida, July 23, 2022. (Twitter)
July 25, 2022, 12:32 pm
Neo-Nazis rally with swastikas outside Florida conservative youth conference
Turning Point USA Student Action Summit, attended by Trump, says it has no connection with group handing out antisemitic leaflets; Holocaust museum calls incident ‘indefensible’
By ToI Staff
The Farber family, adhering to Jewish tradition even after the murder of their 4-year-old daughter Yocheved, continued to use this kosher cooking pot as a symbol of resistance, inscribed in Hebrew: 'In this pot kosher food was cooked in the Vilna ghetto for a girl who was taken to be annihilated.' (Museum of Jewish Heritage/ via JTA)
July 10, 2022, 6:05 am
NYC Holocaust museum uses personal objects to tell story of lives lived and lost
New permanent exhibit at the Museum of Jewish Heritage, entitled ‘The Holocaust: What Hate Can Do,’ emphasizes individual human stories from before, during and after World War II
By julia GERGELY
Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff, second from left, speaks to an interactive artificial intelligence video of Holocaust survivor Pinchas Gutter. (Jacob Gurvis/ JTA)
June 19, 2022, 11:31 pm
Doug Emhoff meets a Holocaust survivor and his AI double at cutting-edge LA exhibit
America’s Second Gentleman explores the new Dimensions in Testimony project at USC’s Shoah Foundation, which provides lifelike interactive accounts as the WWII generation wanes
By jacob gurvis
Rendering of the new Holocaust Museum for Hope & Humanity in downtown Orlando. (Courtesy of Beyer Blinder Belle and The Holocaust Museum for Hope & Humanity/via JTA)
April 20, 2022, 3:39 am
Orlando’s Holocaust museum is getting a huge expansion
Since the 1980s, the center has been a local fixture despite its small size; it will now relocate to a new 43,000-square-foot facility in the city’s cultural corridor
By Jackie Hajdenberg
Chinese Vice President Wang Qishan, center, gestures as he attends a memorial ceremony at the Hall of Remembrance as he visits the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial museum in Jerusalem, Wednesday, October 24, 2018. (Gali Tibbon/Pool Photo via AP)
April 6, 2022, 5:43 am
Chinese media keeps referencing the Holocaust – here’s why
Experts say China’s state-run outlets draw attention to the 20,000 Jews who took refuge in Shanghai during WWII to deflect criticism of the regime’s treatment of minority Uighurs
By Jordyn Haime
The Anne Frank Collection. (Danville Station/JTA)
March 10, 2022, 6:00 am
A tiny Iowa museum remembers farm girls’ pen pals Anne and Margot Frank
Letters from Frank sisters are the cornerstone of Danville Station, a unique off-the-beaten-path museum in a town of 1,000 and no Jewish community
By Dave Schechter
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