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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 646

Holocaust remembrance

Rafal Trzaskowski, Warsaw's Mayor and member of ruling centrist Civic Coalition party, flashes a V for victory sign as he greets supporters as exit polls were announced on tv during their election night event at the the National Museum of Ethnography in Warsaw, Poland, during the second round of the presidential elections on June 1, 2025. (Sergei GAPON / AFP)
June 1, 2025, 11:56 pm
Liberal mayor, anti-EU Holocaust revisionist both claim victory in Poland election
Exit poll shows government-favored centrist Rafal Trzaskowski just ahead of right-wing historian Karol Nawrocki, who is backed by populist Law and Justice, but results could change
By Agencies
Rita Krasimow, left, the runner-up in the 2018 Miss Holocaust survivor beauty pageant, and one of the main protagonists in "Miss Holocaust Survivor," sits with film director Radek Wegrzyn at the screening of the film in Haifa on April 22, 2025. (Diana Bletter/Times of Israel)
April 25, 2025, 4:53 am
At Israeli premiere, ‘Miss Holocaust Survivor’ director struts celebration of life
Holocaust survivors who star in award-winning documentary about controversial pageant attend Haifa screening with Polish-born filmmaker; movie set for worldwide release in January
By Diana Bletter
Members of the 2024 TikTok delegation to the March of the Living in Poland (Cmedia)
April 22, 2025, 1:16 pm
TikTok video creators teach the next generation about the Holocaust
Hebrew University project seeks to develop a video library for teachers in partnership with social video platform, which is also sending content creators to the March of the Living
By Zev Stub
Holocaust survivor Alojzy Maciak (C) from Poland attends the commemoration ceremony to mark the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Buchenwald Nazi concentration camp at the camp's memorial site in Buchenwald, near Weimar, eastern Germany, on April 6, 2025. (JENS SCHLUETER / AFP)
April 7, 2025, 3:27 am
At Buchenwald, former German president warns of ‘radicalization,’ far-right threat
Christian Wulff, speaking at ceremony marking 80 years since concentration camp’s liberation, says far-right German party’s ideology creates ‘breeding ground’ for fear
By AP
Scenes from a new advertisement for Yad Vashem, criticized for being too upbeat. (Screenshot/Yad Vashem)
March 11, 2025, 6:35 pm
‘Cool’ new ad for Yad Vashem raises questions about Holocaust museum’s direction
Some Israelis startled by TV spot with beaming keyboard player touting new sound and light show at institution dedicated to preserving the memory of six million murdered Jews
By Zev Stub
People visit the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp in Oswiecim, Poland, February 15, 2019. (AP Photo/Michael Sohn)
January 13, 2025, 6:08 pm
No politicians, only survivors, to speak at 80th anniversary of Auschwitz liberation
Site director says for first time, leaders won’t be invited to speak, preferring to focus on ‘the last survivors that are among us’; sizable Israeli delegation expected to attend
By ToI Staff
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, left, and then-Bild newspaper chief editor, Kai Diekmann, right, look at original blueprints of the Nazi concentration camp in Auschwitz, Poland, in Berlin, August 27, 2009. (AP Photo/Rainer Jensen, Pool)
November 30, 2024, 8:27 am
Bild’s ex-editor on that leaked document: It’s a journalist’s job to publish secret info
If someone gives you a document, they’re always pursuing an agenda, says Kai Diekmann; he also discusses the paper’s unique stance on Israel and his most dramatic meeting with Netanyahu
By Katharina Kunert
Maciej Hunia, Poland's chief of mission in Israel, speaks to The Times of Israel, October 30, 2024 (Lazar Berman/Times of Israel)
October 31, 2024, 3:44 pm
Poland’s new envoy rejects Gaza genocide claims, says democracies must back Israel
In first interview with Israeli outlet, former spy chief Maciej Hunia says allied nations’ fights over Holocaust history are in the past
By Lazar Berman
People display a Romani flag to commemorate the Roma and Sinti people killed by Nazi Germany in World War II, during ceremonies, in Oswiecim, Poland, August 2, 2019. (AP/Czarek Sokolowski)
August 2, 2024, 1:54 am
Decades after Holocaust, Romani community struggles for recognition of its genocide
While Nazi murder of the Jews in the Shoah is widely commemorated, relatively few countries mark the Aug. 2 memorial day of Samudaripen. Activists are working to change that
By Ronen Shnidman
Margot Friedlander, 102, is on the cover of the July/August Vogue Germany edition. At right, she appears during an event at the Bundestag in January 2024. (Michele Tantussi/AFP/Getty Images via JTA)
June 21, 2024, 12:03 am
Vogue Germany’s next cover model is a 102-year-old Holocaust survivor
Margot Friedländer moved back to Berlin when she was 89 years old, decades after surviving Theresienstadt, and has since become a local celebrity
By PHILISSA CRAMER
Author Martha Hall Kelly and her book 'The Golden Doves.' (Courtesy)
July 26, 2023, 2:32 am
With ‘The Golden Doves,’ bestselling author honors a Holocaust survivor and friend
While promoting her debut novel, Martha Hall Kelly met 93-year-old Auschwitz survivor Irene Zisblatt and promised to keep her story, and the trials of others like her, alive
By Lisa Klug
Poland's Deputy Foreign Minister Pawel Jablonski in Tel Aviv, June 6, 2023 (Lazar Berman/The Times of Israel)
June 9, 2023, 10:53 am
Polish official says don’t compare WWII suffering of Poles, Jews: ‘All were victims’
Poland’s deputy FM Pawel Jablonski, visiting Israel as the two countries look to mend ties, says his compatriots are wrongly painted as perpetrators
By Lazar Berman
A man wearing VR goggles is seen next to a screen depicting Holocaust survivor Inge Auerbacher at the Meta hub in Berlin on June 6, 2023. (Tobias Schwarz/AFP)
June 7, 2023, 7:00 pm
In first, artificial intelligence used for Holocaust education
Visitors in Berlin can converse with an AI-generated avatar based on interviews held with a survivor of the Theresienstadt concentration camp
By Deborah Cole
Armenian ceramist Vic Lepejian in his Old City studio, April 23, 2023 (Lazar Berman/Times of Israel)
April 25, 2023, 4:27 am
On genocide memorial day, Jerusalem Armenians hold out hopes for Israeli recognition
The Jewish state has prioritized ties with Turkey and Azerbaijan over recognizing the WWI Ottoman massacre, critics say, as Armenian community voices shame over country’s stance
By Lazar Berman
Volunteers clean Stolpersteine (stumbling stones) in Brussels, Belgium, during a Yom Hashoah Stolpersteine cleaning event co-organized with the European Jewish Association, April 27, 2022. (Courtesy of Make Their Memory Shine)
April 18, 2023, 6:44 am
In grassroots effort, young Europeans clean ‘stumbling stones’ to gleam like beacons
Make Their Memory Shine organization brings together people of all backgrounds to commemorate Holocaust, identify common values and respect differences
By Renee Ghert-Zand
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