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Holocaust survivors
October 10, 2017, 11:55 am
The evocative rituals of Sukkot
I looked on as that unique etrog scent tantalized both wide-eyed children and a frail old woman who'd seen too much
By Marc Soloway
Holocaust survivor Eva Mozes Kor, who found self-empowerment when she forgave Josef Mengele, September 2017. (Screen capture: YouTube, Buzzfeed)
October 1, 2017, 10:16 pm
Video of Holocaust survivor forgiving Mengele goes viral
Eva Mozes Kor, who was one of Nazi doctor's 'guinea pigs,' imagined he was in the room, read out '20 nasty words,' and exercised 'the power of forgiveness.' It 'made me feel good'
By David Sedley
Holocaust survivors Eva Schloss, left, Anne Frank's posthumous stepsister when her mother married Frank's father, and fellow survivor Pinchas Gutter are displayed as part of an exhibit at the Museum of Jewish Heritage called 'New Dimensions in Testimony,' in New York, September 15, 2017. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)
September 17, 2017, 9:49 pm
New York exhibit allows virtual ‘interviews’ with Holocaust survivors
'New Dimensions in Testimony' uses high-definition video and language-recognition technology to enable visitors to 'connect with history' like never before
By Karen Matthews
Elie Wiesel in his office in New York, September 12, 2012 (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)
September 17, 2017, 7:59 pm
Boston University honors Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel
Students and scholars gather to celebrate writings and teachings of celebrated Holocaust survivor, who died last year, aged 87
By AP
Scene from 'Red Trees' (Cohen Media Group)
September 9, 2017, 2:34 pm
Impressionistic visual essay ‘Red Trees’ reinvents Holocaust film genre
Opening September 15, lyrical documentary about a father's survival and immigration to Brazil allows his filmmaker daughter to learn his family's tragic story for the first time
By Renee Ghert-Zand
Elephants at the Cologne Zoological Garden (CC BY 2.0 Marco Verch/Wikipedia).
September 1, 2017, 5:25 pm
US woman, 93, gives $22m to German zoo, for survivor husband
Elizabeth Reichert says she wanted to give back to city where she met her Jewish husband, a Holocaust survivor
By AFP
Dutch Israeli holocaust survivor Mirjam Bolle is seen in her house in Jerusalem, January 20, 2016. (AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner)
August 31, 2017, 2:57 am
Belgium exempts Dutch Holocaust survivors it fined for alleged tax evasion
Dozens excused from heavy penalties imposed for failure to report special pensions
By JTA
August 30, 2017, 2:56 pm
How I left the Antifa
It was just when black bloc anarchy began to fill him with dread that he was arrested and thrown in a crowded cell
By Gideon Weigert
Norbert Hofer, candidate of Austria's right-wing Freedom Party, FPOE, during a television debate, in Vienna, Austria, November 27, 2016. (AFP/JOE KLAMAR)
August 23, 2017, 4:31 pm
Austria Nazi camp survivors warn of far-right revival
Founded by former Nazis in the 1950s, the Freedom Party is currently polling in third place
By AFP
Hans Wolfermann, Bunny, and Anne in 2015 at the bar mitzvah of a great-grandson. (Steve North)
August 19, 2017, 11:46 am
The improbable journey of German-Venezuelan-American wandering Jews
Hans Wolfermann is remembered for his tenacity in the face of dictatorial regimes from Nazi Europe to South America
By Steve North
A street in the Dutch city of Hattem, where the 1931 marriage certificate of Holocaust victims Siegfried de Groot and Bertha Lippers was found in the chimney of a private home during renovations. (Public Domain/Wikipedia)
August 14, 2017, 6:42 pm
Dutch historians find hidden marriage document of Holocaust victims
Relatives of Siegfried de Groot and Bertha Lippers sought, after their 1931 ketubah was found concealed inside a chimney
By JTA
Family photos of working in the diamond-polishing factories of Havana from the documentary 'Cuba’s Forgotten Jewels.' (Courtesy)
August 14, 2017, 11:35 am
A tropical story of diamonds and Holocaust survival in ‘Cuba’s Forgotten Jewels’
New film explores the forgotten era when the Caribbean island became a temporary gem hub after opening its doors to thousands of European Jews fleeing the Nazis
By Larry Luxner
Holocaust survivor Yisrael Kristal, confirmed in March 2016 as the oldest man in the world. (Courtesy of family)
August 11, 2017, 7:11 pm
World’s oldest man, an Israeli Holocaust survivor, dies at 113
Yisrael Kristal, who last year marked his bar mitzvah 100 years late, passes away a month before his 114th birthday
By TOI staff
Holocaust survivor and Mengele twin Eva Mozes Kor in her Terre Haute, Indiana, CANDLES Holocaust Museum and Education Center on November 7, 2016. (Amanda Borschel-Dan/Times of Israel)
August 2, 2017, 10:54 pm
Survivor who embraced ex-Nazi guard decries jail term for 96-year-old
After court confirms 'Bookkeeper of Auschwitz' healthy enough for prison, Eva Kor says he should lecture in schools instead
By Amanda Borschel-Dan and Agencies
Detail of a Yedioth Ahronoth magazine cover showing student Rotem Bides, 27, and some of the artifacts she stole from Auschwitz (Times of Israel)
July 23, 2017, 9:17 pm
Art exhibit with contested Auschwitz relics to go ahead
Beit Berl College to allow artifacts to be displayed, after student clarified she took them from outside of death camp
By JTA
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