Righteous Among the Nations

During World War II, Miriam Dubi-Gazan registered falsely as the daughter of a Nazi collaborator without his knowledge. (Courtesy of Dubi-Gazan/via JTA)

July 4, 2018, 5:55 pm

Ghost writer revisits her own amazing Holocaust survival story in Amsterdam

Born in a cellar in 1945 and falsely registered as the daughter of a Nazi collaborator, Miriam Dubi-Gazan sees her birthplace for the first time since moving to Israel in 1962

By Cnaan Liphshiz

In this Monday, May 30, 2005 photo, Irena Sendler, right, a Polish woman who saved the lives of hundreds of Jewish children during World War II, meets with American students who created a play about her life, in Warsaw, Poland. The students' teacher, Norman Conard, is being honored by the Polish government and San Francisco based Taube Philanthropies in Warsaw on Monday, June 11, 2018, for his role in making Sendler's story known to the world. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)

June 12, 2018, 1:02 am

US teacher honored for highlighting Polish Holocaust hero

Kansas educator produced play about Irene Sendler, credited with saving hundreds of Jewish children from the Warsaw Ghetto

By Vanessa Gera and TOI staff

A Holocaust memorial created in the 'sauna' facility of the former Nazi death camp Auschwitz-Birkenau, in Poland, with photographs of people deported there, October 2017 (Matt Lebovic/The Times of Israel)

May 31, 2018, 3:58 am

Defending Auschwitz selfies, a new book unpacks Holocaust tourism

While commemorating the genocide perpetuated by the Nazis, visitors to memorial sites are increasingly placing themselves in the frame

By Matt Lebovic

Amit Hirsch, right, recites the mourner's prayer at what used to be the Jewish cemetery in Turobin, Poland, June 2017. (Courtesy of Lea Hirsch)

May 27, 2018, 3:25 pm

Who killed a Polish Holocaust hero? His family may be close to finding out

Long-forgotten testimony by the victim's sister -- the family's sole survivor -- may help solve the decades-old mystery behind the murder of Sobibor escapee Josef Kopf

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Members of the Israel Cycling Academy team finish the memorial ride at the Garden of the Righteous Among the Nations at Yad Vashem in Jerusalem on May 2, 2018. Insert: Gino Bartali during the 1938 Tour de France, which he won. (Melanie Lidman/Times of Israel, courtesy Wikimedia Commons)

May 2, 2018, 11:01 pm

Legendary cyclist Gino Bartali gets honorary citizenship ahead of Giro Israel

Posthumous award recognizes three-time Giro D'Italia winner who hid forged documents in the frame of his bicycle to help Jews escape Italy during the Holocaust

By Melanie Lidman

Muslim World League Secretary General, Mohammad Al-Issa speaks on April 6, 2018. (Screen capture/YouTube)

April 28, 2018, 11:43 pm

Conference of Presidents honors Muslims who protected Jews during Holocaust

Speakers at New York event included the secretary general of Saudi-based Muslim World League and co-founder of Morocco Muslim student movement

By TOI staff

Garden of the Righteous Among the Nations at Yad Vashem. (Courtesy)

April 13, 2018, 3:17 pm

More than a meme against genocide

Practical steps to ensure that no community will ever again be targeted for elimination while the world stands by

By Gina Ross

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (l) meets Johan van Hulst, who saved Jewish children from Holocaust, on a state trip to the Netherlands in 2012. (Screen capture: YouTube)

March 26, 2018, 11:34 pm

Dutch lawmaker who saved hundreds of Jewish children in Holocaust dies at 107

Johan van Hulst, director of Protestant religious seminary, along with resistance activists, smuggled Jews out of Nazi facility

By JTA

Jewish women and children deported from Hungary, separated from the men, line up for selection on the platform at the Nazi death camp Auschwitz in 1944 (AP/Yad Vashem Photo Archives)

February 26, 2018, 4:31 pm

Polish Holocaust rescuers issue call for Polish-Israeli dialogue

Amid crisis over Holocaust law, last surviving Righteous Among the Nations urge Warsaw, Jerusalem to pursue a 'future based on friendship, solidarity and truth'

By TOI staff and AP

February 11, 2018, 7:01 am

The Polish nun who made a choice

The Germans would have killed Sister Edith if they had discovered she was harboring a Jew

By Raymond M. Berger

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (L) and Nina Admoni, who was saved by Japanese diplomat Chiune Sugihara, inspect a memorial to foreign diplomats who saved Jews during World War II at the Foreign Ministry in Jerusalem on February 5, 2018 (HaimTzach / GPO)

February 5, 2018, 2:10 pm

PM: We expect countries to be truthful about the Holocaust, including Poland

Warsaw sends only cultural attaché to Foreign Ministry event honoring foreign diplomats who saved Jews during WWII

By Raphael Ahren

Photo in the German Federal Archives depicts German Jews leaving Germany in the 1930s. (Courtesy Ethan Bensinger)

February 2, 2018, 2:52 am

UK spy agency celebrates agent who saved 10,000 Jews from Holocaust

Head of MI6 honors work of Frank Foley, a 1930s intelligence officer who issued thousands of visas enabling Jewish Germans to escape Nazis

By Stuart Winer and JTA

Alicja Mularska, the daughter of the late Polish couple Jan Dziadosz and Sabina Perzyna receives a medal and certificate of the Righteous Among the Nations award during a posthumous ceremony honouring her parents and their son Aleksandr Dziadosz at the Yad Vashem Museum on January 30, 2018. (AFP PHOTO / THOMAS COEX)

January 30, 2018, 7:14 pm

Amid spat over Holocaust bill, Yad Vashem honors Poles who saved Jews

Polish envoy speaks at ceremony, doesn't mention diplomatic falling-out between Warsaw and Jerusalem over complicity legislation

By AFP and TOI staff

Oskar Schindler during one of more than one dozen visits he made to Israel, beginning in 1961. During the Holocaust, Schindler used his factory and bribes to help save Jews from deportation to Nazi-built death camps (public domain)

January 28, 2018, 3:40 am

In Boston, Holocaust-era rescue stories pierce the darkness of genocide

To mark International Holocaust Remembrance Day, a conversation about individual efforts to rescue Jews from the Nazis' 'Final Solution,' and why the accounts still resonate

By Matt Lebovic

Enzo Cavaglion (seated). Right to left: Alan Schneider, Director, B’nai B’rith World Center-Jerusalem; Paolo Eliezer Foa, President, B’nai B’rith Milan Lodge; Dario Disegni, President, Museum of Italian Judaism and the Shoah; Enzo’s son Dr. Alberto Cavaglion and his granddaughter Sara Cavaglion. (Sergio Cravero)

January 26, 2018, 10:01 pm

Holocaust hero honored 75 years after dramatic rescue of fellow Jews from Nazis

Italian Enzo Cavaglion, 98, presented with Jewish Rescuers Citation for risking his own life to help 700 others escape deportation to Auschwitz

By Yaakov Schwartz