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Holocaust Remembrance Day
Volunteers clean stolpersteine in Berlin's Kreuzberg neighborhood on international Holocaust Remembrance Day, January 27, 2019. (Yaakov Schwartz/Times of Israel)
January 28, 2019, 4:49 pm
Berlin grassroots project cleans Holocaust memorials where Jews scrubbed streets
For International Holocaust Remembrance Day, residents of a culturally mixed neighborhood come together to pay respects to WWII victims even while building a united future
By Yaakov Schwartz
Pichayapa 'Namsai' Natha of Thai pop group BNK48 tearfully apologizes for wearing swastika T-shirt, January 26, 2019 (Screen grab via Instagram)
January 27, 2019, 10:24 am
Thai pop idol tearfully apologizes for Nazi swastika T-shirt
Namsai of BNK48 vows not to repeat the mistake after drawing outrage for wearing shirt in televised performance; star to meet with Israel’s ambassador on Holocaust Remembrance Day
By AFP
The entrance to the Nazi death camp Auschwitz-Birkenau with the lettering 'Arbeit macht frei' ('Work makes you free'). (Joel Saget/AFP)
January 27, 2019, 9:10 am
One in 20 British adults doesn’t believe Holocaust happened, poll finds
In UK survey to mark Holocaust Remembrance Day, 12% of respondents maintain the scale of the genocide is inflated; Holocaust Memorial Day Trust laments ‘shocking’ results
By TOI staff
Rabbi Elimelech Biderman and thousands of ultra-Orthodox Jews celebrating in Meron, Northern Israel, December 1, 2017. (David Cohen/Flash90)
April 16, 2018, 8:39 pm
Poll: Only 17% of Israeli ultra-Orthodox celebrate Independence Day
In haredi community, Sephardic Jews and over-45s identify more with festivities; only 34% say Holocaust Remembrance Day a time of mourning
By TOI staff
Hakoah-Makabi recreated t-shirts. by Argentinian teams Hakoaj and Macabi. (Marcelo Freiberg/ courtesy of “El partido que no fue” via JTA)
April 16, 2018, 7:30 pm
Argentine Jews honor Europe’s great pre-war Zionist sports clubs
Hacoaj and Macabi teams don uniforms of the Hakoah Vienna and Makabi Warszaw squads for ‘the match that didn’t happen’
By JTA
Screen capture from video of Palestinian political analyst and writer Hani Abu Zeid denying the Holocaust during an interview broadcast on Palestinian TV, April 10, 2018. (Facebook)
April 15, 2018, 1:18 pm
Palestinian TV analyst denies Holocaust, says Jews colluded with Hitler
Political commentator Hani Abu Zeid claims scope of German genocide ‘was not that large’; interviewer agrees it was ‘a lie’ spread around the world
By Stuart Winer
In a screenshot from a video shared by Gal Gadot to mark Holocaust Remembrance Day on April 12, 2018, the Israeli movie star touches the face of her late grandfather Abraham Weiss, a Holocaust survivor whose family was killed at Auschwitz. (Screen capture: Instagram)
April 13, 2018, 4:48 pm
Gal Gadot cries after seeing video of her grandpa on Holocaust Remembrance Day
Israeli movie star says she had never before seen clip of herself with her grandfather, whose entire family was murdered at Auschwitz
By TOI staff
In this Wednesday, April 11, 2018, photo, childhood Holocaust survivors Simon Gronowski and Alice Gerstel Weit embrace at the Los Angeles Holocaust Museum. (AP Photo/Reed Saxon)
April 13, 2018, 12:13 pm
Childhood Holocaust survivors reunited after 76 years
Alice Gerstel and her family left Brussels in 1941; the Gronowski family stayed and half were murdered in Auschwitz
By John Rogers
Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman speaks during a Holocaust memorial ceremony in the Southern Israeli kibbutz of Yad Mordechai, on April 12, 2018. (Flash90)
April 13, 2018, 6:51 am
Liberman calls on Gazans to live peacefully alongside Israel
In Holocaust Remembrance Day address, defense minister says it is time for our ‘neighbors from the south’ to ‘change direction’
By TOI staff
A message for Yom Hashoah, or Holocaust Remembrance Day, is laser-projected on the National Congress buildings in Brasilia, April 11, 2018. (Roque de Sa/Agencia Senado via Fotos Publicas)
April 13, 2018, 5:47 am
Holocaust Remembrance Day message projected on Brazil’s National Congress
Brasilia’s most famous landmark emblazoned with the words ‘Holocaust Never Again’ in Portuguese to mark Yom Hashoah
By Marcus M. Gilban
Students protesting outside of the Low Library at Columbia University, April 11, 2018. (Courtesy of Columbia University Students Supporting Israel)
April 12, 2018, 11:30 pm
Anti-Israel protest held hold opposite Holocaust commemoration at Columbia
Students for Justice in Palestine chant, ‘From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free’ in solidarity with Gaza
By JTA
Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich speaks in Oxon Hill, MD on February 27, 2015. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster/File)
April 12, 2018, 11:27 pm
Gingrich likens FBI to Gestapo on Holocaust Remembrance eve
After uproar from ADL and various US pundits, former House Speaker stands by comments, tweeting that people shouldn’t be defending bureau for raid on Trump associate’s home
By JTA
IDF chief Gadi Eisenkot looks through a printed list of all identified victims of the Holocaust at the Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland on April 12, 2018. (Israel Defense Forces)
April 12, 2018, 9:05 pm
In Poland, IDF chief says military puts meaning behind ‘Never again’
Eisenkot marches alongside President Rivlin, senior security officials in March of the Living at Auschwitz
By Judah Ari Gross
US President Donald Trump speaks at the Yad Vashem Holocaust Museum in Jerusalem on May 23, 2017. (Isaac Harari/Flash90)
April 12, 2018, 4:52 pm
Trump on Holocaust day: Americans have ‘moral obligation’ to fight anti-Semitism
US president proclaims: ‘We must ensure that the history of the Holocaust remains forever relevant and that no people suffer these tragedies ever again’
By JTA and TOI staff
Baruch HaLevi
April 12, 2018, 4:09 pm
Baruch HaLevi
Holocaust remembrance day: Startup Nation remembers and repairs
Israeli entrepreneurs, descendants of Holocaust victims, are redeeming their ancestors by providing humankind with life sustaining innovations and technologies
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