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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 368

Holocaust

Israeli-Dutch writer Yael van der Wouden speaks at a We Are Freyda talk in the Netherlands, November 17, 2021. (YouTube, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
September 17, 2024, 9:04 am
Dutch-Israeli author Yael van der Wouden shortlisted for Booker Prize
Novelist inspired by her frustration as a Jewish woman growing up in the Netherlands feeling like her culture has disappeared
By ToI Staff and AFP
Fred Kormis in his studio in the 1980s. (Courtesy: Wiener Holocaust Library Collections via JTA)
September 10, 2024, 7:49 pm
The overlooked artist who escaped the Nazis and made the 1st UK memorial to their victims
A new display at London’s Wiener Holocaust Library follows the upheaval that plagued the life of little-known sculptor Fred Kormis, who focused on memorializing humans in captivity
By Shira Li Bartov
Free food pantry at JCC Krakow for Ukrainian refugees in 2022. (Courtesy)
September 8, 2024, 5:35 pm
With a world weary of war, donations dry up for Ukrainian refugees at JCC Krakow
Jewish Community Center in city adjacent to Auschwitz raised $12m for Ukrainian refugees since 2022. But as money runs out, the new residents may lose yet another port in their storm
By Matt Lebovic
Historian Jens-Christian Wagner looks into a book on September 2, 2024, in Buchenwald, near Weimar, eastern Germany. (Clement Kasser/AFP)
September 4, 2024, 3:44 pm
Buchenwald memorial chief ‘upset and depressed’ over election win by far-right AfD
‘Maybe we will have to re-install a police station,’ worries Jens-Christian Wagner, after local victory by Alternative for Germany party raises specter of hate crimes, funding cuts
By Clement Kasser
Researchers prepare to scan a mass grave at Ponar, outside Vilnius, Lithuania. (Ezra Wolfinger, NOVA)
September 4, 2024, 9:30 am
New research uncovers how Lithuania’s largest Holocaust massacre was mostly forgotten
Chris Heath’s ‘No Road Leading Back’ pieces together the Ponar massacre in detective-like fashion, including a daring escape of 40 prisoners through a secret tunnel in 1944
By Matt Lebovic
Nazi propagandist Leni Riefenstahl is seen at the garden of her home in Kitzbuhel, Austria, in May 1, 1945. (AP Photo/Jim Pringle)
August 29, 2024, 1:23 pm
Nazi filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl’s set directions may have led to killing of Polish Jews
New documentary shows propagandist’s lifelong commitment to Nazi cause, casting doubt on her denial of knowledge of atrocities which enabled her rehabilitation in postwar Germany
By ToI Staff
Jerry Lewis looks through the camera during filming of 'The Day the Clown Cried,' on March 20, 1972, Paris, France. (AP Photo/Jean Jacques Levy)
August 28, 2024, 12:44 am
Jerry Lewis’s infamously bad Holocaust film is having a moment. But you can’t watch it
Archival material related to ‘The Day the Clown Cried,’ the unreleased movie that ended the Jewish funnyman’s career, is now available, with a possible reboot on the horizon
By Andrew Lapin
Katarzyna and Artur Goławski, co-managers of the Kuzmiuk Bakery, hold their signature cebularz, once called pletzel by Lublin's Yiddish-speaking Jews. (Shira Li Bartov/ JTA)
August 27, 2024, 3:39 pm
Owners of Lublin’s oldest bakery learn it had belonged to Jewish family killed by Nazis
Before 99% of the city’s Jews were murdered, the Kuźmiuk Bakery brought customers from near and far; the descendants of the family who took over only learned of its origins in 2017
By Shira Li Bartov
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
Legendary Warsaw Ghetto historian Rachel Auerbach. (USHMM)
July 30, 2024, 8:26 am
Wartime memoir excavates Jewish spiritual resistance in largest Holocaust ghetto
New translation of Rachel Auerbach’s ‘Warsaw Testament’ sheds light on cultural activism of Jews imprisoned in Nazi Germany’s largest Jewish ghetto
By Matt Lebovic
Timothy Reif and son Paul Reif pose in front of 'Seated Nude Woman, front view,' an Egon Schiele drawing stolen by the Nazis from the private collection of their ancestor, Fritz Grünbaum. (Jackie Hajdenberg/JTA)
July 27, 2024, 11:32 am
Another Nazi-looted Schiele painting returns to heirs of its original owner
Unlike museums that have fought in court to retain art stolen by Third Reich, Papanek family, who also survived Nazis, were happy to return ‘Seated Nude Woman, front view’
By Jackie Hajdenberg
Courier service staff prepare to ship the 16th-century Italian painting 'Madonna with Child,' attributed to Alessandro Turchi, which was looted from a private Polish collection by Nazi Germany during World War II, at the Polish Embassy in Tokyo on Thursday, June 1, 2023. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)
July 24, 2024, 10:22 pm
Germany moves to ease return of art looted by Nazis to rightful owners
Draft legislation would create a new ‘right to information’ for victims from whom works were taken between 1933-1945, suspend statute of limitations for return of artworks
By AFP
Adolf Eichmann is seen standing in his bullet proof glass box as the charges against him are read during judical proceedings in the Beit Ha'Am building in Jerusalem, April 12, 1961. (AP Photo/Str)
July 23, 2024, 3:17 pm
Israel’s landmark Eichmann trial depicted in limited-run NYC production
Giving Holocaust survivors a voice, Adolf Eichmann’s 1961 trial in Jerusalem held Final Solution ‘architect’ responsible for organizing deportation of Jews across Europe
By Matt Lebovic
A virtual model of the proposed Holocaust memorial in Victoria Tower Gardens outside the UK Parliament. (Screen capture/YouTube)
July 20, 2024, 6:22 pm
New UK government commits to building Holocaust memorial next to Parliament in London
Pledging to build contentious project, British government says everything must be done to ensure Holocaust is not forgotten, and to fight antisemitism and all forms of hatred
By Reuters
Photo of Yitskhok Rudashevski in the 1930s. (Courtesy of Ghetto Fighters' House Museum, Israel/ Photo Archive and YIVO Institute for Jewish Research)
July 20, 2024, 7:55 am
Now online, diary of teen shot by Nazis tells of desperation, fear, hope in Vilna Ghetto
In its second web-based exhibition, YIVO makes available the lucid observations of Yitskhok Rudashevski, a 15-year-old made wise beyond his years by a life of oppression
By Cathryn J. Prince
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