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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 365

International Holocaust Remembrance Day

Holocaust survivor Eva Szepesi speaks to the plenary of the German Bundestag in Berlin, Germany, January 31, 2024. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)
January 31, 2024, 2:10 pm
Auschwitz survivor decries rise of antisemitism, far-right in Germany
Eva Szepesi tells German parliament that the Holocaust ‘began with words, it began with society staying silent and looking away’
By AP
Bella Haim, the grandmother of Yotam Haim who was killed by Israeli soldiers after trying to escape from Hamas captivity in the Gaza Strip, speaks during a special conference to mark International Holocaust Day at the Knesset, on January 30, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
January 30, 2024, 11:10 pm
Holocaust survivor plays last voicemail from hostage grandson killed in Gaza
‘Hi Savta,’ said Yotam Haim shortly before his kidnapping. ‘I’m a little worried, there are terrorists in the kibbutz, but I’m taking care of myself’
By ToI Staff
File: Greek Orthodox Archbishop Elpidophoros leads a celebration of St. Nicholas Day, at the St. Nicholas National Shrine at the World Trade Center in New York on December 6, 2019. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)
January 29, 2024, 4:50 am
High-ranking Christian prelate warns of spread of antisemitism by church officials
Greek Orthodox leader Archbishop Elpidophoros makes comments in Thessaloniki on International Holocaust Remembrance Day
By COSTAS KANTOURIS and DEMETRIS NELLAS
A Holocaust survivor's photo and quote projected on the Brooklyn Bridge, New York City, January 27, 2024. (Eugene Gologursky/Getty Images for LIVE2TELL By Gillian Laub/AFP)
January 28, 2024, 1:08 pm
Images of survivors projected on NYC landmarks to launch new Holocaust archive
Digital project produced by actress Amy Schumer and digital storyteller Kira Pollack documents remaining survivors’ stories with photography, video, and first-person interviews
By julia GERGELY
People light candles by the monument at the Birkenau Nazi death camp in Oswiecim, Poland, Saturday, Jan. 27, 2024. (AP/Czarek Sokolowski)
January 28, 2024, 5:51 am
Survivors mark Holocaust remembrance under shadow of October 7, surging antisemitism
In Auschwitz, nonagenarian says southern Israel massacre a ‘painful’ extension of her death camp experience; pro-Palestinian activists in Italy refuse to delay rally, fight cops
By Czarek Sokolowski
Mira Talalayevsky was 2 when her mother fled with her from the Nazis in Kyiv. On October 8, 2023, a Hamas rocket destroyed her apartment in Ashkelon, Israel. (Photo by Mishel Amzallag, courtesy International Fellowship of Jews and Christians)
January 27, 2024, 10:23 pm
Holocaust survivors relive past horrors as they recount Oct. 7 experiences
Several Jews who survived WWII were caught in the carnage of the Hamas massacre. They say they have an important perspective to share, though they don’t all believe the same things
By Deborah Danan
A United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) fuel truck arrives at the Egyptian side of the Rafah border crossing with the Gaza Strip on November 22, 2023. (Khaled Desouki/ AFP)
January 27, 2024, 7:55 pm
Daily Briefing Jan 27: Day 113 – UNRWA defunding may see Israel on the hook for Gaza aid
US bureau chief Jacob Magid sheds light on the International Court of Justice genocide ruling, what we know about the dozen sacked UNWRA workers and warnings from UAE
By ToI Staff
US President Joe Biden speaks at Earth Rider Brewery in Superior, Wisconsin, on January 25, 2024. (Saul Loeb/AFP)
January 26, 2024, 11:50 pm
Marking International Holocaust Remembrance Day, Biden warns against downplaying Oct. 7
US president says the need to remember Nazi genocide, combat Jew-hatred is more pressing than ever after Hamas attack, pledges to continue efforts to secure release of hostages
By Reuters and Jacob Magid
Relatives and supporters of the Israeli hostages held in the Gaza Strip by Hamas attend a protest calling for their release outside the Knesset, in Jerusalem, Jan. 22, 2024. Hebrew on the hands with fake blood reads, 'Time is running out.' (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg)
January 26, 2024, 6:46 pm
Hostage families mark International Holocaust Remembrance Day: ‘Never again is now’
Descendants of Holocaust survivors whose family members were kidnapped to Gaza gather virtually to discuss the similarities they see between Nazi and Hamas atrocities
By Maya Zanger-Nadis
Walter Bingham (2nd right) with his daughter Sonia, President and First Lady Herzog, and Chaiman of International March of the Living, Samuel Roseman (left). (Haim Zach/GPO)
January 26, 2024, 2:16 am
85 years later, president hosts Kindertransport survivors, draws link to October 7
Herzog hails Holocaust survivors who were smuggled out of Nazi-controlled Europe; Hamas massacre forced one of them, Mirjam Szpiro of Kibbutz Zikim, to leave home a 2nd time
By Maya Zanger-Nadis
United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres speaks during a news conference at the COP28 UN Climate Summit, Monday, December 11, 2023, in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. (AP Photo/Kamran Jebreili)
January 25, 2024, 6:07 am
UN chief to sit out Park East Synagogue Holocaust event for first time in 10 years
Spokesman says that ‘following the October 7 terror attacks and subsequent rise of antisemitism, service will be focused on healing and testimony of survivors’
By Luke Tress
Elon Musk carries his son X Æ A-Xii on his shoulders flanked by Ben Shapiro, right, Rabbi Menachem Margolin, second from left, and Gidon Lev at the Auschwitz-Birkenau museum in Poland on January 22, 2024. (Yoav Dudkevitch)
January 22, 2024, 9:55 pm
At Auschwitz, Musk says social media, free speech would have prevented extermination
On his first visit to Nazi death camp, owner of X dismisses allegations that his laissez-faire attitude is promoting antisemitism
By Canaan Lidor and Agencies
Palestinian ambassador to the United Kingdom Husam Zomlot attending the Doha Forum in Qatar, in a handout image provided by the Qatari Ministry of Foreign Affairs, December 11, 2023. (Marwan Tahatah / MOFA QATAR / AFP)
January 21, 2024, 5:53 am
British pro-Palestinians heckle ‘collaborator’ PA envoy, Labour MP urging ceasefire
Activists disrupt separate appearances in London by Husam Zomlot, David Lammy; UK chief rabbi: ‘Genocide’ accusations aimed at ‘tearing open the still gaping wound of the Holocaust’
By Jacob Magid, AP and ToI Staff
US Second Gentleman Douglas Emhoff, right, speaks with 101-year-old Margot Friedländer, center, during a meeting with Holocaust survivors in Berlin, January 31, 2023. (US Embassy Berlin)
February 1, 2023, 11:01 am
Doug Emhoff’s trip to Poland and Germany brings him back to Jewish ancestral roots
US second gentleman describes meeting Holocaust survivors who recently fled war in Ukraine as ’emotional and intense,’ recalls his own grandparents’ flight to safety in America
By Toby Axelrod
A genealogy testing kit for Ancestry/DNA is displayed in the Ackman and Ziff Family Genealogy Institute research area at the Center for Jewish History (CJH), November 29, 2022, in New York. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)
January 31, 2023, 10:21 pm
Ancestry.com donates 2,500 DNA kits to help Holocaust survivors find relatives
World’s largest genealogy company gives tests to the newly launched DNA Reunion Project, a Center for Jewish History initiative seeking to unite families shattered by the genocide
By Yaakov Schwartz
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