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A group of children wearing concentration camp uniforms behind barbed wire fencing in the Oswiecim (Auschwitz) Nazi concentration camp, photographed just after the liberation by the Soviet army, in January 1945. (AP Photo/ File)
August 3, 2018, 6:52 pm
US school prescribes book claiming Holocaust victims didn’t ‘tap’ inner strength
University of North Carolina requires students to read the text as part of a mandatory one-credit hour Lifetime Fitness course
By JTA
Holocaust survivor Ruth Goldschmiedova Sax. (Screen capture: YouTube)
July 25, 2018, 11:33 pm
90-year-old Holocaust survivor is unexpected superhero of Comic-Con
During talk on 'Art During the Holocaust,' Ruth Goldschmiedova Sax tells packed hall about Auschwitz ordeals
By JTA
Yaron Roksa holds pen confiscated by the Nazis from his father at Neuengamme concentration camp in 1944. The pen was returned to the Roksa family by ITS on July 3, 2018. (Laura Ben-David/Courtesy of ITS)
July 11, 2018, 6:34 pm
Nazi-confiscated pen helps ToI track down survivor’s son, rewrite family history
International Tracing Service and Times of Israel journalist jointly find descendants of Istvan Rokza, to restitute his stripped possessions and unearth buried heritage
By Renee Ghert-Zand
Illustrative: A Holocaust survivor shows her number tattoo. (Christopher Furlong/Getty Images via JTA)
July 10, 2018, 6:35 pm
Germany agrees to $88 million more for Holocaust survivors
Claims Conference says additional government funding brings total compensation for next year to $560 million
By AP and TOI staff
Children of an African migrant from Nigeria who have been jailed with their mother in Ramle's Givon Prison as Israel tries to deport her. (Channel 10 screen capture)
July 7, 2018, 11:10 am
Holocaust survivor slams Israel’s jailing of migrant children
Marcel Stahl says footage of young kids behind bars with their mothers, who Israel is trying to deport, took him back to the days of the Nazis
By TOI staff
During World War II, Miriam Dubi-Gazan registered falsely as the daughter of a Nazi collaborator without his knowledge. (Courtesy of Dubi-Gazan/via JTA)
July 4, 2018, 5:55 pm
Ghost writer revisits her own amazing Holocaust survival story in Amsterdam
Born in a cellar in 1945 and falsely registered as the daughter of a Nazi collaborator, Miriam Dubi-Gazan sees her birthplace for the first time since moving to Israel in 1962
By Cnaan Liphshiz
French President Emmanuel Macron (C, top) attends a tribute ceremony for French politician and Holocaust survivor Simone Veil in the courtyard of the Invalides in Paris, France, on July 5, 2017. (AFP PHOTO / ALAIN JOCARD)
July 1, 2018, 6:10 am
French icon Simone Veil to be buried in Pantheon on Sunday in rare honor
Hundreds expected to pay respects as remains of Jewish Holocaust survivor, activist and politician who died last year moved to storied Paris monument
By AFP
(L-R) Israeli Ambassador Mark Regev, London Mayor Sadiq Khan, Holocaust survivor and Olympian Ben Helfgott and Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis of the United Congregations of the Commonwealth attend the Yom HaShoah Commemoration, the British Jewish community's Holocaust remembrance ceremony, in Barnet, north London, on May 8, 2016. (AFP PHOTO/LEON NEAL)
June 30, 2018, 2:14 pm
Holocaust survivor who went on to become two-time Olympian receives knighthood
New biography showcases Ben Helfgott, a 5-foot-4 athlete who, after enduring Buchenwald and Theresienstadt, captained UK weightlifters -- and lifted his fellow survivors
By Rich Tenorio
Shira Pruce
June 29, 2018, 6:27 pm
Shira Pruce
The number on my arm
I know what my children and grandchildren will say about me when they speak of these dark times
This file photo taken on June 10, 1979 shows Simone Veil casting her ballot in Paris during the European elections. (Pierre Guillaud/AFP)
June 29, 2018, 7:59 am
France to honor rights icon, Holocaust survivor Simone Veil with Pantheon burial
Veil convinced the French parliament to legalize abortion despite fierce opposition, and was the first elected president of the European Parliament in 1979
By Joseph Schmid
British children's author and Holocaust survivor Judith Kerr. (Christoph Rieger/ Wikimedia Commons)
June 28, 2018, 3:02 pm
After fleeing Nazi Germany, Judith Kerr became Britain’s favorite storyteller
The daughter of an acclaimed Jewish essayist exiled from Berlin is now one of the world's most renowned children's authors, with a play opening on London's West End on June 28
By Robert Philpot
Holocaust survivor and Palestinian rights advocate Felicia Langer interviewed in 2012. (Screen capture: YouTube)
June 24, 2018, 6:03 pm
Pro-Palestinian Holocaust survivor Felicia Langer dies at 87
Left-wing lawyer defended Palestinian detainees and authored several books critical of IDF, was denounced for calling Israel 'apartheid' state
By Frank Zeller
Meijer and Tedje van der Sluis during filming in Amsterdam of a 2018 documentary about their marriage. (Merlijn Doomernik/via JTA)
June 24, 2018, 9:08 am
These Dutch Holocaust survivors have been madly in love for 70 years
A newly released documentary sets out to record the nonagenarians' one-of-a-kind romance, and its tragic roots
By Cnaan Liphshiz
Jack Garfein delivering a speech in New York, June 7, 2018. (Courtesy of From the Depths)
June 22, 2018, 11:40 pm
Film producer, TV’s Superman honored by Holocaust remembrance group
Jack Garfein became a civil rights activist after immigrating to US; actor Dean Cain recently produced a documentary about the Armenian genocide
By JTA
Jack and Rachelle Goldstein, who as children were separated from their families during the Holocaust, criticize the separation of children from their families caught illegally crossing the US border in a video released by the Anti-Defamation League on June 19, 2018. (Screen capture: YouTube)
June 20, 2018, 10:42 pm
Jews separated from families during Holocaust condemn US border policy
'Separation of the family for us is probably the worst thing that ever happened to us,' says Rachelle Goldstein in video released by ADL
By Josefin Dolsten
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