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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 425

Shoah

In this file photo taken on May 18, 2004 Franco-Swiss film director Jean-Luc Godard attends a press conference for his film "Notre Music" during the 57th Cannes Film Festival in Cannes. (BORIS HORVAT / AFP)
September 14, 2022, 2:26 am
A trailblazing filmmaker, Jean-Luc Godard was a polarizing figure to Jews offscreen
The French New Wave pioneer who died Tuesday long faced accusations of antisemitism, but while his opposition to Zionism was clear, his views on the Jewish people were more complex
By Andrew Lapin
A view of the Babyn Yar Holocaust Memorial Center in Kyiv on March 2, 2022. (Dimitar DILKOFF / AFP)
March 3, 2022, 10:12 am
Holocaust survivors condemn Putin’s ‘denazification’ claim in Ukraine
Signatories to statement say Russian leader’s unacceptable justification of invasion as action against Nazis and alleged genocide only serves to ‘tarnish’ the words
By AFP and ToI Staff
Foreign Ministry's Twitter account on January 27, 2021, International Holocaust Remembrance Day (photo credit: Courtesy)
January 27, 2021, 6:36 pm
Auschwitz survivor, 92, takes over @Israel for Holocaust Remembrance Day
Foreign Ministry gives its Twitter account to Itzik Yaakobi, prisoner B-11057, to recount his experiences during the Shoah and answer questions from around the world
By Lazar Berman
Claude Lanzmann poses for photographers upon arrival at the premiere of the film 'The Man Who Killed Don Quixote' and the closing ceremony of the 71st international film festival, Cannes, southern France, Saturday, May 19, 2018. (Photo by Vianney Le Caer/Invision/AP)
November 8, 2018, 9:10 pm
Stunning posthumous release from ‘Shoah’ director resonates post-Pittsburgh
Filmmaker Claude Lanzmann died this past July, but a new work, ‘Shoah: Four Sisters,’ compiled from past footage to debut in NY, is chillingly applicable today
By Jordan Hoffman
In this file photo taken on February 14, 2013 French documentary filmmaker and producer Claude Lanzmann poses during the 63rd Berlinale Film Festival in Berlin. AFP/GERARD JULIEN)
July 11, 2018, 4:35 am
France plans tribute to late filmmaker Lanzmann
Thursday ceremony for acclaimed director of Holocaust documentary ‘Shoah’ to take place before burial at Montparnasse cemetery in Paris 
By AFP
In this file photograph taken on May 11, 1985, French writer, journalist and movie producer Claude Lanzmann poses in his office in Paris.(AFP PHOTO / DERRICK CEYRAC)
July 5, 2018, 9:38 pm
Long before Israel, Claude Lanzmann stirred Poland’s wrath
The eminent filmmaker, who died Thursday at 92, railed against the ‘Polish lobby’ undercutting his groundbreaking Holocaust work that tarnished the narrative of Polish victimhood
By Marissa Newman
Diarist Renia Spiegel, who was murdered by the Nazis at the age of 18 in Przemysl, Poland (Courtesy: Renia Spiegel Foundation)
April 12, 2018, 7:33 pm
The lost diary of Poland’s ‘Anne Frank’: An untold testament of a truncated life
For decades, few people knew of Renia Spiegel or her journal. The Holocaust victim’s sister and a determined filmmaker are working to change that
By Matt Lebovic
Conceptualization of the Holocaust and human rights museum under construction in Dallas, Texas, set to open in 2019, created by Berenbaum Jacobs Associates (courtesy)
February 26, 2018, 10:03 pm
New Holocaust museums draw connections to local history to inspire ‘upstanders’
From Skokie to Skopje, newly designed memorials encourage visitors to ‘participate in repair’ — by looking within themselves
By Matt Lebovic
Alice Cohn poses in front of the building in which she hid from the Nazis, in Utrecht, the Netherlands. The photo was taken after the liberation of Europe in 1945. (Courtesy: National Holocaust Museum)
January 3, 2018, 5:02 am
How artist beat ‘foolproof’ Nazi system to forge Dutch ID papers, save 350 lives
Resistance work of Alice Cohn, expertly faking documents while in hiding, detailed in exhibit at National Holocaust Museum in Amsterdam
By Matt Lebovic
LeVar Burton in the 1977 television miniseries 'Roots,' and Meryl Streep in 1978's 'Holocaust' miniseries (ABC and NBC, respectively)
December 27, 2017, 10:59 pm
When slavery and the Holocaust visited American living rooms
Aired on television within months of each other, 40 years ago ‘Roots’ and ‘Holocaust’ broke cultural taboos by depicting some of history’s worst atrocities
By Matt Lebovic
The former Nazi death camp Sobibor, in eastern Poland, where more than 200,000 Jews were murdered during the Holocaust. A long-anticipated museum and visitor center is under construction, September 30, 2017 (Elan Kawesch/The Times of Israel)
October 17, 2017, 11:49 am
At former Nazi death camp Sobibor, a post-Holocaust construction boom
After decades of obscurity, a one-time Nazi-built extermination center is being transformed to commemorate Jewish victims and attract more visitors
By Matt Lebovic
A rededication ceremony at the New England Holocaust Memorial in Boston, Massachusetts, following an act of vandalism, on July 11, 2017. (Matt Lebovic/The Times of Israel)
July 12, 2017, 12:16 pm
Boston Holocaust memorial rededicated after vandalism
After one of the Shoah memorial’s glass towers was shattered last month, community leaders gather to unveil repairs and praise Boston’s response to the incident
By Matt Lebovic
Anne Frank's hiding place bedroom during the 1950s (left) and her restored bedroom at the Anne Frank House in Amsterdam today (Matt Lebovic/The Times of Israel)
June 10, 2017, 7:21 am
Publication of Anne Frank’s diary saved her ‘Secret Annex’ from destruction
60 years ago, the Netherlands avoided ‘national scandal’ when activists rescued the wartime hiding place
By Matt Lebovic
A drug deal is photographed in Berlin, 1924 (Public Domain/German Federal Archive)
May 10, 2017, 8:26 pm
Did stimulants fuel Nazi Germany’s war of annihilation?
A probe into drug and alcohol use during Nazi Germany’s ‘blitzkrieg’ assault on Europe opens a Pandora’s box of coverups and accusations
By Matt Lebovic
Jews being deported to Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland during World War II (photo credit: CC-BY-SA Ernst Hofmann or Bernhard Walte, Deutsches Bundesarchiv Bild 183-N0827-318)
April 24, 2017, 11:58 pm
Holocaust restitution report fails efforts by Poland, Bosnia
Study highlights difficulties European countries have had in restoring property to Jewish owners due to Communist rule
By AP and ToI Staff
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