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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 350

Holocaust Remembrance Day

Dan Hadani visits the National Library of Israel during Passover in April 2024 (David Peretz/National Library of Israel)
May 8, 2024, 2:13 pm
100-year-old who shaped Israeli photojournalism takes stage to share Holocaust survival
Cultural icon Dan Hadani survived the Lodz Ghetto and multiple Nazi camps. A lifelong chronicler, he continues to tell his story at the National Library of Israel
By Maya Zanger-Nadis
This image grab taken from footage released by the Israeli army on May 7, 2024, shows the 401st Brigade's combat team tanks entering the Gazan side of the Rafah border crossing with Egypt in the southern Gaza Strip on May 7, 2024. (Fayez Nureldine/Israeli Army/AFP)
May 7, 2024, 1:29 pm
Daily Briefing May 7: Day 214 – Has the IDF crossed the Rubicon into Rafah?
Zman Yisrael editor Biranit Goren on the significance of the operation in Gaza’s southernmost city, even as hostage talks continue; Canaan Lidor reports from March of the Living
By ToI Staff
US President Joe Biden (L) meets with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Tel Aviv on October 18, 2023. (Brendan SMIALOWSKI / AFP)
May 6, 2024, 11:32 pm
Biden calls PM to reiterate opposition to Rafah op after IDF orders partial evacuation
Call also focuses on hostage talks, which were subsequently shaken up with Hamas announcement claiming to accept ceasefire proposal; Netanyahu agrees to reopen Kerem Shalom Crossing
By Jacob Magid
Soldiers observe two minutes of silence for victims of the Holocaust, at a makeshift memorial for those killed and kidnapped on Oct. 7, 2023 in a cross-border attack by Hamas at the Nova music festival, in Re'im, May 6, 2024 (AP Photo/Tsafrir Abayov)
May 6, 2024, 5:29 pm
Poll: Over half of Israeli Jews see comparison between Holocaust and October 7
Israeli leaders have repeatedly sought to liken Hamas to the Nazis, with Prime Minister Netanyahu arguing that Hamas has the same intention’ as WWII enemy of the Jews
By Sam Sokol
Hundreds of strangers attend the funeral of Holocaust survivor Esther Greizer in Haifa on May 6, 2024 (Screen grab via Channel 12 news)
May 6, 2024, 4:14 pm
On Holocaust Remembrance Day, hundreds of strangers attend funeral of Auschwitz survivor
Esther Greizer, 95, who died overnight and was laid to rest in Haifa, was unable to have children after being subjected to experiments as a child at the death camp
By ToI Staff
Palestinians hold leaflets dropped by Israeli planes calling on them to evacuate ahead of an Israeli military operation in Rafah, southern Gaza Strip, May 6, 2024. (AP Photo/Ismael Abu Dayyah)
May 6, 2024, 12:48 pm
Daily Briefing May 6: Day 213 – War at a crossroads as IDF orders partial Rafah evacuation
Emanuel Fabian reports on a deadly Hamas rocket barrage from Rafah and IDF preparations for a ground operation; Lazar Berman on contentious hostage talks and the pace of the war
By ToI Staff
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attends a wreath-laying ceremony marking Holocaust Remembrance Day, in the Hall of Remembrance at the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial Museum in Jerusalem, May 6, 2024. (Amir Cohen/Pool Photo via AP)
May 6, 2024, 12:33 pm
Netanyahu heckled at Yad Vashem wreath-laying ceremony
During annual Holocaust Remembrance Day commemoration, protester demands PM’s resignation, says he ‘failed in a very serious way to protect the people of Israel’
By Sam Sokol
Hannah Gofrit, an 88-year-old Holocaust survivor speaks to a crowd of people in Tel Aviv's Hostages Square at Holocaust Remembrance Day event on evening of May 5, 2024. (Courtesy of Hostages and Missing Families Forum/Paulina Patimer)
May 6, 2024, 4:17 am
Hostage families and Holocaust survivors vow ‘Never again’ while marking Yom Hashoah
‘Pain is pain, it doesn’t matter if I experienced it in Poland or now, on Oct. 7,’ Holocaust survivor Hannah Gofrit tells teary-eyed crowd of thousands at Tel Aviv’s Hostages Square
By Charlie Summers
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
Tamar Pearlman, left, niece of Hamas hostage Alex Dancyg, speaks about her uncle's Holocaust history at a Zikaron Basalon event in Jerusalem on Holocaust Remembrance Day, May 5, 2024. (Jessica Steinberg/Times of Israel)
May 6, 2024, 3:35 am
Hostage’s niece tells their family’s Holocaust and Oct. 7 stories
Jerusalemites gather for a different kind of Zikaron Basalon, as Tamar Pearlman hopes family’s story of survival will help Alex Dancyg withstand Hamas captivity
By Jessica Steinberg
A visitor is seen at the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial museum in Jerusalem on May 2, 2024, several days ahead of Holocaust Remembrance Day. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
May 6, 2024, 1:37 am
Study: Grief Israelis feel on Holocaust Remembrance Day can help ease political rifts
Hebrew University social psychologists find that periodic national days of mourning and commemoration can serve the important purpose of reducing ideological antagonism
By Renee Ghert-Zand
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks at a Holocaust Remembrance Day commemoration at Yad Vashem in Jerusalem, May 5, 2024. (Kobi Gideon/ GPO)
May 5, 2024, 11:56 pm
PM at Yad Vashem: Oct. 7 was not a Holocaust, but only because Israel can defend itself
Marking Yom Hashoah, President Isaac Herzog also says the Hamas massacre of October 7 ‘echoed the horrors’ of the Holocaust, but does not compare to WWII atrocities
By Sam Sokol
Protesters hold placards with the picture of 21-year-old Omer Shem Tov during a demonstration to ask for the release of hostages held in Gaza since the October 7 attack, in Tel Aviv, on December 2, 2023. (Ahmad Gharabli/ AFP)
May 5, 2024, 8:00 pm
Hostage families, freed captives to share stories with journalists for Yom Hashoah
On especially somber Holocaust Remembrance Day, Government Press Office invites foreign journalists to panel discussion, in-depth briefing on sex crimes committed on October 7
By ToI Staff
Relatives and supporters of the Israeli hostages held in the Gaza Strip by the Hamas terror group call for their release during a protest in Tel Aviv, April 29, 2024. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg)
May 4, 2024, 11:47 am
‘Never again is now!’: Hostages’ families rally ahead of Holocaust Remembrance Day
Saturday evening demonstration focus on captives related to survivors of WWII Nazi genocide; anti-government protests held at Tel Aviv’s Kaplan Street and nationwide
By ToI Staff
A small Israeli flag on the rail tracks at the site of the former Auschwitz-Birkenau camp during commemorations to honor the victims of the Holocaust, near the historical gate of Birkenau (Auschwitz II) near the village of Brzezinka near Oswiecim, Poland on April 28, 2022. (Wojtek Radwanski / AFP)
May 4, 2024, 8:04 am
How Jewish world marking Yom Hashoah, months after deadliest day for Jews since Holocaust
March of the Living to be led by 55 survivors, including 7 also affected by October 7; while some double-survivors connect the two experiences, others caution against
By jacob gurvis
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