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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 350

Nazi Germany

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
The Centropa archive focuses on Holocaust survivors who remained in central and eastern Europe. (Courtesy)
June 14, 2024, 4:19 pm
Centropa archive documents Holocaust survivors’ entire lives – not just the Nazi years
US Holocaust Museum acquires trove of interviews with Jews who stayed in central and eastern Europe in hopes of fleshing out a lost 20th-century history as told by those who lived it
By Matt Lebovic
A wristwatch and a pair of earrings belonging to deceased Stanislawa Mordes are seen on June 11, 2024, in Warsaw, during a ceremony of returning the personal effects to the families of two Polish victims killed following the Warsaw Uprising from 1944. (Wojtek Radwanski/AFP)
June 11, 2024, 11:45 pm
Germany returns items to descendants of Poles killed at Nazi camps
Arolsen Archives hands over watch, earring, brooch and powder compact as part of efforts to retrace the fate of Third Reich’s 17.5 million victims
By AFP
Bruno Dey, 93, a former SS guard in the concentration camp Stutthof near Danzig, sits in the regional court in Hamburg, Germany, October 17, 2019 (Daniel Bockwoldt/dpa via AP)
June 9, 2024, 2:54 pm
In Germany, threats to Holocaust memory come from both ends of the political spectrum
As the country’s memory culture is challenged from within, journalist Tobias Buck probes his own family’s Nazi past while tracing 79 years of efforts to bring perpetrators to justice
By Matt Lebovic
French President Emmanuel Macron addresses British D-Day veterans during a commemorative ceremony marking the 80th anniversary of the World War II Allied landings in Normandy, at the World War II British Normandy Memorial of Ver-sur-Mer, Thursday, June 6, 2024. (Ludovic Marin/Pool via AP)
June 6, 2024, 2:13 pm
‘Free nations must stand together to oppose tyranny’: Leaders mark 80 years since D-Day
UK’s King Charles leads British event in Normandy as pivotal Allied landing to free Europe from Nazi Germany commemorated by WWII vets, military displays
By Elizabeth Pineau, John Irish and Jeff Mason
At the Königin Luise Schule in Cologne, Germany, students watch as 'Stumbling Stone' memorials are installed for Holocaust victims who were expelled by the school during Nazi rule (courtesy)
May 6, 2024, 8:32 am
German students research fates of their school’s Jews to bring Nazi-era horrors home
Against backdrop of October 7 massacres and surge in global antisemitism, US consultant Terry Mandel visits Germany to expand award-winning Holocaust memory project based in Cologne
By Matt Lebovic
Gilad Erdan, Permanent Representative of Israel to the United Nations, Antonio Guterres, United Nations Secretary General, and Dani Dayan, Chairman of Yad Vashem, inspect the Yad Vashem Book of Names of Holocaust Victims Exhibit, Thursday, Jan. 26, 2023, at United Nations headquarters. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)
May 5, 2024, 4:14 pm
How Yad Vashem is implementing AI to give every Holocaust victim a name
The World Holocaust Remembrance Center works to pinpoint victim names previously lost among 230 million text documents; museum seeks to record 5 million victim names by 2029
By Matt Lebovic
View of the villa built for Nazi propaganda chief Joseph Goebbels, near the Bogensee lake north of Berlin, taken on January 13, 2016. (John MacDougall/AFP)
May 4, 2024, 6:59 am
Berlin offers to give away villa once owned by Nazi propaganda chief Goebbels
Local government says it will have ‘no other option’ but to demolish building if it again fails to hand off dilapidated complex
By Stephen Graham
The 'No Thanks' app to boycott Israel shows Nescafe is on the boycott list. (No Thanks)
April 28, 2024, 11:08 am
Promoted on TikTok, ‘No Thanks’ boycott app targets products tied to Israel
Google briefly banned the boycott app – downloaded by one million people since November – for ‘killing children’ reference in description
By Matt Lebovic
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