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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 349

Nazi occupation of Europe

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
A screen shows photos of the victims of the massacre of the Ardeatine Caves during a commemorative ceremony for its 80th anniversary, in Rome, March 22, 2024. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)
March 24, 2024, 10:33 pm
Italy marks 80 years since Nazi massacre in Rome with memorial concert
Symphony written in 1968 by Jewish composer William Schuman in honor of 335 killed at Ardeatine Caves makes Italian debut at ceremony
By LUIGI NAVARRO and SILVIA STELLACCI
'Fatherland,' by Burkhard Bilger (Courtesy); and Karl Gonner's undated prisoner of war photo. (Dépôt central des archives de la justice militaire)
October 4, 2023, 4:24 am
The ‘reasonable Nazi’ defended by the French villagers he oversaw
In his new book ‘Fatherland,’ Burkhard Bilger tells about his 1992 discovery that his grandfather had been tried for war crimes in postwar France – but that’s not the whole story
By Robert Philpot
Holocaust survivor Naki Bega at her daughter's home in Athens, Greece, on March 14, 2023. (Louisa GOULIAMAKI/AFP)
March 15, 2023, 5:49 pm
Long ignored, Greek Holocaust survivors finally tell their story
Naki Bega, one of less than a dozen survivors remaining in south European country, survived Auschwitz and 22-day death march; Greece marks 80th anniversary of first deportation
By Yannick Pasquet
German soldiers try to dislodge snipers in Warsaw during the Nazi invasion of Poland in September 1939 in World War II. (AP Photo)
September 1, 2022, 1:27 pm
Poland to demand $1.3 trillion in WWII reparations from Germany
Deputy PM makes bombshell announcement at the release of a report on the cost to the country of years of Nazi occupation, as it marks 83 years since the start of the war
By MONIKA SCISLOWSKA
Sant' Anna di Stazzema massacre memorial sculpture, February 22, 2008. (Wikimedia Commons/ Hans Peter Schaefer)
October 12, 2021, 11:48 pm
After killing hundreds of Italian civilians, a brutal SS division evaded justice
UK author Christian Jennings’ new book ‘Anatomy of a Massacre’ examines the infamous murders at Sant’ Anna di Stazzema to highlight Nazi war crimes that went unpunished
By Robert Philpot
Students explore Camp Amersfoort in the Netherlands, April 19, 2021. (Mike Bink/National Monument Kamp Amersfoort, via JTA)
April 23, 2021, 3:13 pm
‘Unimaginable suffering’: Museum opens at infamous Nazi camp in heart of Holland
47,000 people were imprisoned at Camp Amersfoort, including hundreds of Jews who were later sent to death camps in Poland
By Cnaan Liphshiz
Adolf Hitler, left (Bundesarchiv Bild); Winston Churchill, right (CC-SA 2.0/ Yousuf Karsh); 'The Black Book: The Britons on the Nazi List,' by Sybil Oldfield. (Courtesy)
March 12, 2021, 9:37 pm
Hitler kept secret hit list of 3,000 prominent Brits for after Nazis defeated UK
Author Sybil Oldfield reveals the Gestapo’s infamous ‘Black Book’ and the plan to Nazify Britain by rounding up the Jews – and non-Jews – who stood in the Third Reich’s way
By Robert Philpot
Nazi soldiers march through Paris, France, October 24, 1940. (AP)
January 30, 2021, 4:29 am
French village that sheltered Austrian man from Nazis inherits his fortune
Eric Schwam bequeaths over $2 million to Chambon-sur-Lignon, where he and his family hid in a school during World War II
By AFP
Emanuele Di Porto speaks about his experience in a Zoom conference. (Courtesy)
January 27, 2021, 4:39 am
Four Italian Holocaust survivors tell how they escaped death on ‘Black Saturday’
Ahead of a January 27 online preview of the Rome Shoah Foundation Museum’s new exhibition, volunteers who usually travel Italy speaking to schools share their stories with ToI
By Giovanni Vigna
The Jewish Council of Amsterdam was a body set up by the Nazis to have Jews oversee preparations for the extermination of their own minority throughout the Netherlands during World War II. (Courtesy of the Jewish Cultural Quarter of Amsterdam/ via JTA)
January 26, 2021, 4:43 pm
In Amsterdam, ‘personal cards’ of Holocaust victims return to Jewish hands
The 140,000-plus identification papers are set to be displayed publicly for the 1st time; they’re unique in containing details of status and personal traits, unlike Nazi-made cards
By Cnaan Liphshiz
As part of the Paris avant-garde of the 1920s, Suzanne Malherbe, left, and Lucy Schwob created subversive, gender-bending art under the pseudonyms Marcel Moore and Claude Cahun. (Jersey Heritage Collections/ via New York Jewish Week)
December 12, 2020, 1:13 pm
Lesbian French couple who fought Nazis with their art slowly gain recognition
In ‘Paper Bullets,’ Jeffrey H. Jackson revisits the effort by the iconic pair, who demoralized German troops occupying island of Jersey and later inspired the likes of David Bowie
By Andrew Silow-Carroll
Clockwise from left: 'Hedy's War' by Jenny Lecoat (Courtesy); Dorothea Weber and the Jewish woman she saved, Hedwig Bercu (Yad Vashem Righteous Among the Nations Collection).
November 21, 2020, 1:03 pm
Novel revives true story of gutsy Jew who survived Nazis to marry German soldier
In fictionalized history ‘Hedy’s War,’ Jenny Lecoat retells WWII story of Hedwig Bercu, who faked her own death and was sheltered for 18 months on Nazi-occupied Jersey island
By Robert Philpot
Pierre Simonet in an undated photo (Courtesy)
November 6, 2020, 12:34 pm
France mourns loss of one of its last WWII resistance heroes
Pierre Simonet was one of three remaining fighters in the French resistance to the Nazi occupation at age 17; he died Thursday aged 99
By AFP
The site of the Fosse Adreatine massacre of 1944 has become a memorial to the 335 victims buried in the disused quarries. (Italian Defense Ministry)
August 15, 2020, 8:46 am
After 76 years, victims of Nazi massacre in Italy identified through DNA testing
Two of those who died in 1944 Fosse Ardeatine massacre, in which 335 were killed in reprisal for a partisan attack on an SS regiment, can now finally be honored by families
By Giovanni Vigna
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