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Illustrative: Books and a magnifying glass. (bee32/ iStock via Getty images)
August 6, 2017, 11:45 pm
New project reunites books stolen in Holocaust with heirs
German provenance researchers are searching some 6,000 libraries to find books taken illegally by Nazis
By JTA
Ester Goldstein, left, and sister Margot lived in Berlin before they were separated in 1939. (Courtesy of Yad Vashem/via JTA)
May 23, 2017, 8:01 am
Short on time, Yad Vashem packing emotion into Trump visit
Israel's Holocaust memorial to focus on the human toll through the story of one German Jewish girl, Ester Goldstein, murdered in the Riga ghetto
By Andrew Tobin
Anne-Marie O'Connor, left, and Ora Ahimeir, just prior to a discussion as part of the Personal Pages: Meet the Authors series at the Tower of David Museum in Jerusalem's Old City, May 15, 2017. (Yaakov Schwartz/Times of Israel)
May 16, 2017, 2:59 pm
At TOI event, bestselling authors present true stories of women of valor
Writers Anne-Marie O'Connor and Ora Ahimeir tackle women's resilience during genocide in discussion at Jerusalem's Tower of David Museum
By Yaakov Schwartz
The Large Artifacts Vault is seen at the US Holocaust Memorial Museum's David and Fela Shapell Family Collections, Conservation and Research Center in Bowie, Md., Monday, April 24, 2017. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)
April 25, 2017, 6:57 am
US Holocaust Museum opens conservation and research center
New facility houses thousands of items which belonged to Nazi victims and survivors in eight climate-controlled vaults
By brian witte
Illustrative: Golfers at the Valero Texas Open on April 23, 2017, in San Antonio, Texas. (Marianna Massey/Getty Images/AFP)
April 24, 2017, 9:29 pm
Holocaust survivors hail end of Allianz golf tourney sponsorship
Insurance giant, accused of owing billions in unpaid life insurance claims for Jews killed in Europe, pulls out of event
By JTA
Waffen SS soldiers. (CC BY-SA 3.0 Bundesarchiv, Bild 101III-Wiegand-117-02 / Wiegand/ Wikipedia)
March 22, 2017, 9:53 am
Copenhagen says it won’t prosecute Danes for WWll crimes
Prosecutor says no evidence linking two men to mass murder of Jews in Belarus
By AP
A social media post by the IDF Spokesperson’s Unit, marking International Holocaust Remembrance Day, includes a total of Jews and non-Jews killed in the Holocaust that historians say is greatly exaggerated. (Twitter)
February 1, 2017, 3:02 am
‘Remember the 11 million’? Why an inflated victims tally irks Holocaust historians
An oft-cited statistic of 5 million non-Jewish Holocaust deaths has no basis in fact, experts say, and may be contributing to denial efforts
By Ron Kampeas
Jacob Steinberg at the Paramaribo Holocaust memorial. (Courtesy)
December 13, 2016, 12:00 am
70 years after the Holocaust, a Surinamese memorial for Caribbean victims
'Not one' expert she interviewed knew of Caribbean Jewish victims, says Jamaican author, but that didn't stop community from raising international funds for monument
By Julie Masis
A porcelain Mickey Mouse figurine found by farmers near the Auschwitz death camp in Poland (AFP Photo/Ivo Kopijasz)
September 9, 2016, 7:21 pm
Mickey Mouse figurine resurfaces near Auschwitz
Head of Holocaust foundation says child who owned statuette likely died in gas chambers of the Nazi death camp
By AFP
Katie Ledecky celebrating winning gold and setting a new world record in the Women’s 400-meter freestyle final on day two of the Rio 2016 Olympic Games at the Olympic Aquatics Stadium, Aug. 7, 2016. (Al Bello/Getty Images via JTA)
August 9, 2016, 1:20 am
Gold medalist swimmer inspired by her Jewish history
Katie Ledecky says her grandmother's stories of family's losses during the Holocaust have driven her to succeed
By Gabe Friedman
A World War II veteran walks past an honor guard of Israeli soldiers during the annual Holocaust Remembrance Day ceremony at the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial in Jerusalem on May 5, 2016. (AFP Photo/Gali Tibbon)
May 6, 2016, 2:37 am
The many Holocausts of the Jews
The memory of the industrial extermination of European Jewry unifies the fractured Jewish world as nothing else can – and confers a desperate significance on what divides us
By Haviv Rettig Gur
Participants of the annual March of the Living are seen at the former Auschwitz-Birkenau Nazi death camp in Poland, on May 5, 2016. (AFP PHOTO / WOJTEK RADWANSKI)
May 5, 2016, 10:22 pm
Thousands mark Holocaust Remembrance Day at Auschwitz
Jews from around the world, students and Israeli officials gather at Nazi death camp for annual March of the Living
By Agencies and TOI staff
A page from the 14th-century 'Birds’ Head Haggadah.' (Wikimedia Commons)
April 22, 2016, 10:03 pm
Family makes claim on Israel Museum’s Nazi-looted Haggadah
Grandchildren of Holocaust victim say 'Birds’ Head,' believed to be the world’s oldest illustrated Passover text, was sold without permission
By JTA
A picture taken just after the liberation by the Soviet army in January 1945 shows a group of children wearing concentration camp uniforms behind barbed wire fencing in the Auschwitz Nazi concentration camp. (AP Photo/File)
April 10, 2016, 2:02 am
Database of Holocaust victims reaches 1 million names
Crowdsourced collaboration between US Holocaust Memorial Museum and Ancestry.com makes records searchable
By AP
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