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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 430

Majdanek

Holocaust survivor Halina Birenbaum, 93, prepares to leave for the March of the Living commemorative event in the former Nazi death camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau in Poland, April 17, 2023. (Canaan Lidor)
April 18, 2023, 12:05 pm
Halina Birenbaum survived the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. She saw heroism elsewhere
At 93, one of just a handful of living witnesses of the armed rebellion seeks to correct Jews’ understanding of bravery during the genocide
By Canaan Lidor
Holocaust denying writer and historian David Irving (AP/Alik Keplicz/File)
March 24, 2019, 1:33 pm
Poland says Holocaust denier David Irving ‘not welcome’ on death camp tour
After Israeli appeal, Warsaw says it won’t allow British conspiracy theorist to ‘present his opinions’ during planned visit
By ToI Staff
Holocaust denying writer and historian David Irving (AP/Alik Keplicz/File)
March 20, 2019, 12:36 pm
Israel urges Poland to deny entry to British Holocaust denier David Irving
Minister Naftali Bennett says Irving will offend survivors and stoke anti-Semitism if he is allowed to lead tour of Nazi death camps in September
By ToI Staff
Holocaust denying writer and historian David Irving (AP/Alik Keplicz/File)
March 19, 2019, 9:06 am
British Holocaust denier David Irving to lead Nazi death camp tour
Publicity for the $3,650 trip calls the camps ‘controversial’ and describes Irving as a ‘Hitler expert’
By Marcy Oster
A gas chamber in the former German Nazi death camp Majdanek, in Poland, October 2017 (Matt Lebovic/The Times of Israel)
December 20, 2018, 3:35 pm
German court won’t try 97-year-old Nazi death camp suspect
Former Majdanek guard, accused of supporting operation where 17,000 Jews were shot in ditches, deemed too sick to face court proceedings
By Geir Moulson
A gas chamber in the former German Nazi death camp Majdanek, in Poland, October 2017 (Matt Lebovic/The Times of Israel)
August 13, 2018, 9:15 am
Israeli student sent home after exposing buttocks at Nazi death camp
Incident captured on security cameras at Majdanek during Holocaust education trip; second teenager also sent back early
By ToI Staff and Agencies
Screen capture from video of Rabbi Aryeh Hendler leading a tour at the Majdanek concentration camp site in Poland, November 2017. (Hadashot news)
November 29, 2017, 1:56 pm
In a concentration camp, a rabbi celebrates his grandson’s circumcision
Aryeh Hendler, unable to attend ceremony in Israel, connects via video link as he leads a tour at Majdanek in Poland
By Stuart Winer
In this Nov. 9, 2005 file picture watch towers and a barbed wire fence of the former Nazi death camp Majdanek outside the city of Lublin in eastern Poland are photographed. (Photo credit: AP/ Czarek Sokolowski,file)
October 20, 2017, 2:02 pm
Ex-Nazi Majdanek guard, 96, charged with complicity to mass murder
Suspect, who has not been named, also said involved in ‘Operation Harvest Festival,’ in which at least 17,000 Jews were shot in November 1943
By AFP
In this photo from 2017, 91-year-old Holocaust survivor Eugenia Unger of Buenos Aires finally celebrates her bat mitzvah. (Facebook screenshot via JTA)
April 3, 2017, 6:44 pm
Holocaust survivor, 91, celebrates bat mitzvah in Argentina
Eugenia Unger, who was in the Warsaw Ghetto and Auschwitz, says ceremony was ‘the culmination’ of her life
By JTA
Austrian presidential candidate Norbert Hofer at a Governmental TV channel event in Vienna, May 22, 2016. (Jan Hetfleisch/Getty Images/JTA)
December 2, 2016, 11:02 pm
Austria’s rising far-right seen as proof of failure to address Nazi past
With country on the verge of electing president from nationalist Freedom Party, experts blame Vienna’s reluctance to confront its history
By Cnaan Liphshiz
Labor's Hilik Bar addresses the Knesset (Flash90)
May 7, 2016, 9:38 am
Polish town names square after Knesset deputy speaker’s family
Skulsk calls plaza after Hilik Bar’s great-grandfather Yitzhak Kotowski, who perished in Majdanek concentration camp
By JTA
Treblinka survivor Poldek (Leon) Rytz, 89, dances with wife Ester Dyna Rytz, 86, in 2007 in Sweden. (courtesy)
February 22, 2016, 8:33 pm
There are still Treblinka survivors living. One tells his tale
Now in Sweden, 89-year-old Leon ‘Poldek’ Rytz remains active in spreading his tale of survival in the face of genocide
By Amanda Borschel-Dan
Israeli archaeologist Yoram Haimi, right, has been warning of threats to important historical artifacts at the Sobibor death camp in Poland, September 2013. (Courtesy of Yoram Haimi/JTA)
February 6, 2015, 5:08 pm
No new building on mass graves, say Sobibor activists
Gas chamber discovery at the Nazi extermination camp spurs calls to review museum project
By Cnaan Liphshiz
Visitors walk the grounds of Majdanek, where more than 75,000 prisoners were murdered during the Holocaust (Photo credit: Yossi Zeliger/Flash90)
November 25, 2014, 11:02 pm
Prisoner shoes stolen from Nazi death camp museum
Police launch investigation after footwear goes missing at Majdanek; hole discovered in display
By AFP
Samuel Klein, the founder of Brazilian retail giant Casas Bahia. (YouTube screenshot)
November 21, 2014, 10:16 pm
Jewish founder of Brazil’s largest retail chain dies
Business mogul Samuel Klein, who escaped from a Nazi death camp, passes away from respiratory failure
By AP
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