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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 527

Nazi Germany

Pages from Eduard Pernkopf's 'Atlas of Topographical & Applied Human Anatomy' (used in accordance with clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
February 28, 2025, 1:25 am
‘Go-to’ anatomy atlas featuring corpses of Nazi victims revamped by UCLA cardiologist
Inspired by his Jewish teachers, Indian-born physician Kalyanam Shivkumar wants Nazi-made anatomy atlas to become obsolete. But not everyone agrees ‘Pernkopf Atlas’ should be tossed
By Matt Lebovic
From the trials of Adolf Eichmann, which will be examined in 'Eichmann -- The Devil Speaks,' the first series produced by Tadmor Entertainment and MGM (Courtesy GPO)
February 24, 2025, 1:50 am
Argentine president opening files on Nazi ‘ratlines’ that trafficked Eichmann, Mengele
Up to 10,000 Nazi war criminals fled Europe using these escape routes. Javier Milei pledges to declassify files related to how his country settled 5,000 of them
By Matt Lebovic
Survivors attend the offical ceremony at the former German Nazi death camp Auschwitz-Birkenau during events to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the camp's liberation in Oswiecim, Poland, on January 27, 2020 (Wojtek RADWANSKI / AFP)
January 23, 2025, 4:46 am
A decade ago, 300 survivors marked their liberation at Auschwitz. This year, 50 will go
3,000 people expected to attend ceremony on Jan. 27 as international delegations mark 80 years since largest German death camp was liberated by Red Army during World War II
By Matt Lebovic
People visit the Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz-Birkenau in Oswiecim, Poland, on February 15, 2019. (AP Photo/Michael Sohn, File)
January 13, 2025, 5:00 am
80 Auschwitz survivors film life lessons to mark 80 years since liberation
Created by The Claims Conference, new series of video testimonies from Auschwitz survivors aims to help young people ‘listen to their voices and carry their stories forward’
By Matt Lebovic
This photograph taken on December 6, 2024, shows a pages from original manuscript of General de Gaulle's 1940 "Appeal of June 18," displayed ahead of an auction of General de Gaulle's personal memorabilia and writings (the manuscript displayed in the photograph is not up for sale, however), at Artcurial auction house in Paris. (Grégoire CAMPIONE / AFP)
December 7, 2024, 9:58 am
Famed De Gaulle WWII speech against Nazis on show for first time
Manuscript of French war leader’s so-called ‘Appeal of June 18’ urging resistance featuring at auction house in Paris
By AFP
H. Keith Melton points to a key on an Enigma Machine with four rotors and a some Japanese characters that was used in World War II to encode messages, September 13, 2017, in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
November 10, 2024, 8:30 am
‘Holocaust Codes’ pits British codebreaker against SS leader in battle for secrecy
Author Christian Jennings delivers jarring account of Allied codebreaker who deciphered Holocaust’s evolution from open-air massacres to purpose-built death camps
By Matt Lebovic
Historian Igor Bartosik at the former Union factory adjacent to Auschwitz, from which female prisoners smuggled revolt supplies to Sonderkommando prisoners living atop Birkenau gas chambers, August 2024 (Matt Lebovic/The Times of Israel)
October 8, 2024, 10:41 am
80 years ago on Oct. 7, Jewish Sonderkommando workers staged a failed revolt at Auschwitz
Decades before the Hamas atrocities, inmates took up arms against their Nazi tormentors. It didn’t succeed, but the revolt was singular, unprecedented, and facilitated by women
By Matt Lebovic
Destroyed houses from the October 7, 2023, Hamas attack on southern Israel, in Kibbutz Kfar Aza, September 19, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
October 7, 2024, 1:31 am
After reaching Israel days after Oct. 7, USC Shoah Foundation is now helping record it
The organization’s researchers gathered hundreds of witness testimonies after the massacre and is sharing them with Israel’s National Library while advising on forming a collection
By Matt Lebovic
Amber crucifixes and golden jewelry that were confiscated by Nazi Germans from Stanislawa Wasilewska and returned to relatives in a ceremony in Warsaw, Poland, on September 10, 2024. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)
September 12, 2024, 8:27 am
Jewelry seized from Poles in Nazi concentration camps returned to families
Germany’s Arolsen Archives hands over Stanislawa Wasilewska’s bracelet, watch and crucifixes to her grandson and great-granddaughter at an emotional ceremony in Warsaw
By MONIKA SCISLOWSKA
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
A Catholic priest conducts a funeral service for remains of over 700 victims of German crimes of the World War II, discovered in the so-called Valley of Death, at the Minor Basilica of the Holy Trinity of St. John the Baptist in Chojnice, Poland, on September 2, 2024. (Sergei GAPON / AFP)
September 2, 2024, 5:51 pm
Poland holds state burial for over 700 World War II victims of Nazi Germany
Teachers, priests, police officers, forestry and postal workers, and landowners were among hundreds massacred in Chojnice in early 1945
By MONIKA SCISLOWSKA
The reconstructed Garrison Church in Potsdam, Germany (CC BY-SA 4.0 Raimond Spekking & Elke Wetzig/ wikimedia)
August 22, 2024, 5:27 pm
Germany opens reconstructed 18th-century church where Hitler cemented grip on power
‘This place challenges us’ to confront checkered past, says German president, amid protest outside inauguration of Potsdam’s Garrison Church, which communist East Germany destroyed
By Geir Moulson
Illustrative: Workers put up a commemorative plaque outside barracks formerly used to house forced laborers now turned into a memorial and museum documenting Nazi Germany´s widespread use of forced labor in Berlin´s Schoeneweide district 24 August 2006. (Photo by JOHN MACDOUGALL / AFP)
August 15, 2024, 3:28 pm
German biscuit giant apologizes for larger-than-known Nazi-era slave labor force
Bahlsen heiress had sparked controversy for saying firm treated captives as well as Germans; 800 people were forced to make rations for German troops, 3 to 4 times previous estimate
By AFP
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
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
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