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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 564

Plaszow

Magda Rubenfeld Koralewska (front) on a walking tour of the site of the former Plaszow concentration camp in Krakow. (Stan Baranski/FestivALT)
November 23, 2021, 9:07 pm
Jewish group seeks to stall plan to finally commemorate Krakow concentration camp
Fear of an antisemitic backlash causes some local Jews to join residents and environmental activists in pushing back against municipal plans to mark the notorious Plazsow site
By Amy Spiro
Under the Yale Art Building Venetian Style Bridge, crossing High St in New Haven, Connecticut, February 10, 2009 (Getty Images via JTA)
September 14, 2019, 7:33 am
Yale launches Holocaust survivors podcast
Series launches with Martin Schiller describing his experiences in the concentration and slave labor camps of Plaszow, Skarzysko-Kamienna, Buchenwald and Theresienstadt
By Cnaan Liphshiz
Amon Goeth, the brutal SS commander of Plaszow concentration camp near Krakow, Poland (Wikimedia Commons)
February 9, 2017, 11:59 am
Notorious Nazi’s house of horrors to become a luxury villa
Developer plans to move his family into house used by Krakow-Płaszow camp commander Amon Goeth, featured in ‘Schindler’s List’
By Stuart Winer
The Nazi concentration camp in Plaszow near Krakow. (Public domain via Wikimedia Commons)
March 2, 2016, 4:02 am
Gas workers dig up human remains at Nazi death camp in Poland
Construction crew was repairing pipeline near Plaszow death camp outside Krakow
By JTA and AP
During the liberation of Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in April of 1945, guards with the SS were paraded for work in clearing the dead. (Wikimedia Commons)
January 14, 2016, 12:34 pm
Uncovering Holocaust perpetrators where few have looked
Muslim Nazis, female death camp guards, and Dutch ‘bounty hunters’ are coming out of the archival closet, even as fewer Shoah eyewitnesses remain alive to testify
By Matt Lebovic
The 1944 letter up for auction helped secure the safety of Oskar Schindler's Jewish factory workers during the Holocaust. (RR Auction)
August 8, 2013, 6:34 pm
US auction house offers Schindler documents
Items up for bidding include letter that paved path to survival for industrialist’s Jewish workers
By Lisa McCormack
Ofir Efroni hopes to find Rozsi Friedman (left, in 1948), who saved his grandmother, Koti Grunbaum (right), from certain death at Auschwitz. (Courtesy of Sara Efroni via JTA)
December 26, 2012, 2:03 am
Grandson takes over search for Holocaust survivor’s savior
As Alzheimer’s erases his grandmother’s memory, Ofir Efroni hopes to find the woman who helped her live through Auschwitz
By Hillel Kuttler
March 19, 2012, 9:55 pm
March recalls Krakow ghetto liquidation
Tadeusz Jakubowicz, who at age five made the original 1944 march, led the group
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