Holocaust remembrance

The Savsko Obdaniste kindergarten in the Serbian capital of Belgrade is housed in a building that was part of a Nazi concentration and extermination camp. (Google maps)

September 2, 2019, 8:20 pm

Serbia to block construction at former concentration camps

President Vucic promises Simon Wiesenthal Center to pass bill protecting sites from development

By JTA

In this July 29, 2019, photo, Dallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum President and CEO, Mary Pat Higgins, pauses as she gives a tour of the museum in Dallas, to look at a wall size image of Jews marching. When Dallas’ Holocaust museum reopens in a few weeks it will not only be in a new building five times the size of its previous location, but will take visitors on a journey that also includes modern-day genocides and the evolution of human and civil rights in the U.S. (AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez)

August 31, 2019, 8:52 pm

Dallas Holocaust museum expands focus to other genocides, human rights struggles

Museum opening Sept. 18 is five times bigger than in previous location; greater scope aims to remind visitors of Holocaust lessons’ ongoing relevance

By Jamie Stengle

Yaakov Dov Bleich, right, chief rabbi of Ukraine, with Canada's ambassador to Ukraine, Roman Waschuk, left, and primate of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine, His Beatitude Epifanii, second from right, August 21, 2019. (Aliona Nikolaievych/Barcroft Media via Getty Images/via JTA)

August 27, 2019, 10:39 am

Rabbi helps dedicate memorial to Ukrainian group that collaborated with Nazis

Rabbi Yaakov Dov Bleich says ceremony for WWII-era Ukrainian Insurgent Army at a Jewish cemetery was a compromise meant to remove crosses erected at the cemetery by locals

By JTA

Visitors are seen through an iron gate carrying the German phrase "Arbeit Macht Frei" (work sets you free) at the former concentration camp in Oranienburg, eastern Germany on August 7, 2019. (Odd Andersen/AFP)

August 26, 2019, 9:29 am

Far-right surge in Germany rattles guardians of Nazi-era remembrance

Guide at former concentration camp warns AfD politicians are ‘playing with fire’ by challenging country’s culture of reckoning with its past

By Deborah Cole

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, left, and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, right, stand at Babi Yar ravine where Nazi troops murdered tens of thousands of Jews during WWII, in Kyiv, Ukraine, August 19, 2019. (AP Photo/Zoya Shu)

August 22, 2019, 11:21 am

Netanyahu’s praise of Kyiv’s Holocaust remembrance only tells part of the story

Recent years have seen efforts to reframe Ukraine’s involvement in Nazi atrocities; local Jewish groups say its historical memory policy is deeply problematic and revisionist

By Sam Sokol

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez speaks to the media after visiting the detention facility in Clint, Texas on July 1 (Christ Chavez/Getty Images via JTA)

July 9, 2019, 4:49 am

How Jews who panned AOC’s ‘concentration camps’ comments view detention centers

Most groups and individuals have condemned conditions at the sites on America’s southern border as horrific and appalling; but some are far more guarded

By Ben Sales

Actor playing Holocaust victim Eva Heyman on the Eva.Stories Instagram account (Screen capture/Instagram)

May 3, 2019, 11:09 pm

Instagram account memorializing Holocaust victim reaches over 120 million views

Project earns praise for using social media to bring story of Eva Herman, a young girl killed by Nazis, to new audiences, but some accuse makers of trivializing tragedy

By TOI staff

Photograph from the liberation of the Dachau camp on April 29, 1945, held in the collection of Belgian underground operative Adrian Aloy. (Kedem Auction House)

May 1, 2019, 12:42 pm

Newly revealed photographs chronicle aftermath of Dachau’s liberation

Collection belonging to Belgian underground operative Adrian Aloy, including images of the revenge killing of SS guards, made public ahead of Jerusalem auction

By TOI staff

Cast members of Eva.Stories, the Instagram-based fictionalized retelling of the real story of 13-year-old Eva Heyman, a Hungarian Jew murdered in a Nazi concentration camp in 1944. (Channel 12 screen shot)

April 30, 2019, 7:41 pm

Instagram story of young Holocaust victim Eva aims at new generation

Much as Anne Frank’s diary gripped older generations, fictionalized social media account of real teenager Eva Heyman, murdered by the Nazis, is generating buzz among today’s young

By ISAAC SCHARF and AUDREY HOROWITZ

This picture taken on April 19, 2019 shows an effigy of Judas on Good Friday, hanging in the town of Pruchnik, southern Poland. (Photo by Hubert Lewkowicz / AFP)

April 25, 2019, 12:33 am

Far-right politician says effigy row shows Jews or Freemasons spying on Poland

Janusz Korwin-Mikke singles out Jonny Daniels, the Israeli-British founder of Holocaust commemoration group From the Depths

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Bram Presser, former leader of the band Yidcore, won an award from the Jewish Book Council for his debut novel. (Courtesy of Presser/via JTA)

April 12, 2019, 8:47 am

Why only a Jewish punk rocker could write this lyrical novel on the Holocaust

‘The Book of Dirt,’ a thoughtful examination of his family’s tortured past wins new author Bram Presser the Jewish Book Council’s Goldberg Prize for Debut Fiction

By Curt Schleier

Polish Ambassador to Israel Marek Magierowski poses for a picture in Jerusalem, October 11, 2018. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

February 11, 2019, 4:49 pm

Poland’s envoy recognizes individual Holocaust crimes, firmly rejects complicity

Amid controversy over Nazi era, Marek Magierowski complains ‘little is known worldwide about what really occurred in German-occupied Poland’; notes diverging views with Yad Vashem

By Raphael Ahren

The Bratwurst Museum at its current location in Holzhausen (Facebook photo)

February 2, 2019, 2:06 pm

After outcry, German sausage museum nixes plans to move to former Nazi camp

Association behind museum says it had not been aware of Muehlhausen site’s history: ‘We definitely won’t build there’

By Agencies

Inmates at the Buchenwald concentration camp, days after liberation. Famed author Elie Wiesel is second row from the bottom, seventh from the left, next to the bunk post. (US Army/US Defense Visual Information Center/Wikimedia Commons)

February 1, 2019, 1:47 am

Sausage museum plan at site tied to ex-Nazi camp sparks outcry in Germany

Around 700 Jewish women were held and forced to work at Buchenwald’s Muehlhausen site, now being redeveloped into a tourist attraction

By AFP

A man wearing a kipah looks on, as people take part in a demonstration called by the Representative Council of Jewish Institutions in France on July 31, 2014, in front of a Lyon synagogue. (AFP/Romain LaFabregue/File)

November 27, 2018, 2:14 pm

CNN poll: Over 20% of Europeans say Jews have ‘too much influence’ worldwide

Survey across 7 countries finds over a third know little or nothing about Holocaust, while 32% say Jews use genocide’s memory to advance their interests

By Stuart Winer