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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 625

Lodz

Belgium starting players pose for a team photo at the beginning of the international friendly soccer match between Belgium and Luxembourg at the King Baudouin Stadium in Brussels, Belgium, June 8, 2024. (Geert Vanden Wijngaert/AP)
June 19, 2024, 9:46 pm
Brussels declines to host upcoming Belgium-Israel soccer match, citing security risk
City official say game scheduled for September would provoke demonstrations endangering players, spectators, residents and police
By Agencies and ToI Staff
Dan Hadani visits the National Library of Israel during Passover in April 2024 (David Peretz/National Library of Israel)
May 8, 2024, 2:13 pm
100-year-old who shaped Israeli photojournalism takes stage to share Holocaust survival
Cultural icon Dan Hadani survived the Lodz Ghetto and multiple Nazi camps. A lifelong chronicler, he continues to tell his story at the National Library of Israel
By Maya Zanger-Nadis
An item found under a Lodz apartment building, January 3, 2022. (Facebook/Provincial Office for the Protection of Monuments in Łódz; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
January 8, 2023, 10:43 pm
Menorahs and tableware hidden from Nazis: Polish builders uncover Jewish WWII trove
Glass cosmetic containers, cigarette holders and hundreds of other items found under Lodz building; local Jewish community lit a restored menorah on Hanukkah
By AP and ToI Staff
French-Polish director Roman Polanski looks on on stage after the preview of his last movie 'J'accuse' (An Officer and a Spy) in Paris, November 4, 2019. (Thomas SAMSON/AFP)
November 30, 2019, 1:57 pm
Polanski cancels visit to Polish film school over protests
Jewish director accused of rape was set to speak at Lodz institute, which had rejected online calls to withdraw invitation
By AFP
Rabbi Dawid Szychowski telling journalists about the Festival of Tranquility that he launched in Lodz, Poland, on June 8, 2019. (Courtesy Shvei Israel/via JTA)
June 13, 2019, 11:23 am
Polish city of Lodz has first Jewish festival in decades
Historically one of Poland’s most vibrant Jewish communities, the city was emptied of Jews during the Holocaust
By Cnaan Liphshiz
Polish activist Sławomir Dul hangs an effigy of late communist politician Jakub Berman, captioned 'Jew,' in Lodz on April 30. 2019 (Screencapture/Youtube)
May 2, 2019, 1:46 am
Effigy of late Polish Jewish communist hung on gallows at former Lodz Ghetto
‘I did it, I hung a Jew,’ shouts Polish activist Sławomir Dul after putting up display featuring late communist politician Jakub Berman, captioned ‘Jew’
By Cnaan Liphshiz
A tweet posted by Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko about mass deportations carried out by Soviets against Ukrainians with a photo of Jews being deported by Nazis. (Screen capture: Twitter)
October 24, 2017, 11:43 pm
Ukrainian president mistakenly tweets photo of Jews deported by Nazis
In apparent gaffe, image of Lodz ghetto residents en route to Chelmno death camp included in post on deportations of Ukrainians by Soviets
By JTA
Poland's Culture Minister Piotr Glinski looks the marble bust of the antique goddess Diana during a ceremony of return at the Lazienki Palace in Warsaw, Poland, Friday, December 18, 2015. (AP/Alik Keplicz)
December 4, 2016, 4:13 pm
Polish culture minister denies involvement in anti-Semitic event
Piotr Glinski’s office says he was not informed of discussion of book ‘The Jewish Political Lobby in Poland’; organizers say otherwise
By JTA
The Lodz Ghetto (CC-BY SA German Federal Archive/Wikimedia Commons)
August 30, 2016, 6:33 am
EU allocates $1.5 million to expand Lodz train station museum
Funds will be used to modernize building, construct multimedia model
By JTA
Holocaust survivor Yisrael Kristal, confirmed in March 2016 as the oldest man in the world. (Courtesy of family)
March 11, 2016, 3:02 am
Israeli Holocaust survivor confirmed as world’s oldest man at 112
Newly uncovered Polish documents help Yisrael Kristal of Haifa receive Guinness stamp of approval
By ToI Staff and AFP
Holocaust survivor Yisrael Kristal, confirmed in March 2016 as the oldest man in the world. (Courtesy of family)
January 23, 2016, 3:30 pm
Guinness confirms Israeli Holocaust survivor, 112, may be world’s oldest man
Yisrael Kristal of Haifa needs documentation that he was born on September 15, 1903, which could be a challenge
By AFP
Holocaust survivor Yisrael Kristal, confirmed in March 2016 as the oldest man in the world. (Courtesy of family)
January 22, 2016, 1:21 am
Haifa Holocaust survivor, 112, may be world’s oldest man
But Yisrael Kristal could have difficulties officially confirming his age
By JTA
Fredzia Marmur, a Holocaust survivor, was one of 60 refugees identified by the filmmakers of ‘Every Face Has a Name,’ a 2015 documentary based on 1945 newsreel footage from the Swedish port Malmo (courtesy: Menemsha Films)
December 29, 2015, 11:00 pm
Nazi refugees ‘tagged’ in liberation documentary
Seven decades after disembarking at a Swedish port, those who fled Hitler discover themselves in digitally enhanced rescue footage
By Matt Lebovic
100-year-old Polish Holocaust survivor Golda Kirshner. (Courtesy: Kirshner family)
November 10, 2015, 1:32 am
Happy birthday to my 100-year-old ‘mamo’
From Auschwitz to Canada, a son pays tribute to his Holocaust survivor parents, who endured so much over a century of living
By Sheldon Kirshner
Illustrative photo of a Torah scroll (Yaakov Naumi/Flash90)
November 7, 2015, 6:35 am
Polish city of Lodz receives first new Torah scroll since WWII
Donated by British Jewish philanthropists, scroll introduced in special ceremony in city’s synagogue
By JTA
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