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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 435

Treblinka

Sol Nayman hugs a participant of the March of the Living event during Nayman's first visit in 84 years to Stoczek, Poland on April 20, 2023. (Canaan Lidor/Times of Israel)
May 8, 2023, 1:23 am
In Poland, Canadian Holocaust survivor returns to native village as sole local Jew
During emotional visit, which happened on Hitler’s birthday, Sol Nayman brought to Stoczek about 100 members of the March of the Living event
By Canaan Lidor
Jewish and Christian clergy stand together for prayers for the souls of some 60 Jews murdered by the occupying Nazi German forces during a ceremony marking a memorial to the victims in Wojslawice, Poland, October 14, 2021. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)
October 20, 2021, 3:13 am
Not forgotten: Mass graves of Jewish Holocaust victims dedicated in Poland
New technology and old memories help to find and secure burial sites of Jews shot and buried by German forces in fields and forests across the country
By Vanessa Gera
Mandy Patinkin cries during his episode of "Finding Your Roots." (Screen capture: YouTube)
April 27, 2021, 12:28 am
Mandy Patinkin breaks down in tears learning he lost family in Holocaust
In latest ‘Finding Your Roots’ episode, Jewish actor discovers relatives were rounded up in northeastern Poland, and sent to the Treblinka death camp
By Gabe Friedman
Holocaust denying writer and historian David Irving (AP/Alik Keplicz/File)
March 24, 2019, 1:33 pm
Poland says Holocaust denier David Irving ‘not welcome’ on death camp tour
After Israeli appeal, Warsaw says it won’t allow British conspiracy theorist to ‘present his opinions’ during planned visit
By ToI Staff
Holocaust denying writer and historian David Irving (AP/Alik Keplicz/File)
March 20, 2019, 12:36 pm
Israel urges Poland to deny entry to British Holocaust denier David Irving
Minister Naftali Bennett says Irving will offend survivors and stoke anti-Semitism if he is allowed to lead tour of Nazi death camps in September
By ToI Staff
Holocaust denying writer and historian David Irving (AP/Alik Keplicz/File)
March 19, 2019, 9:06 am
British Holocaust denier David Irving to lead Nazi death camp tour
Publicity for the $3,650 trip calls the camps ‘controversial’ and describes Irving as a ‘Hitler expert’
By Marcy Oster
Beginning in 1942, Jews in the Lodz ghetto of Nazi-occupied Poland were deported to death camps including Chelmno and Auschwitz-Birkenau. (Yad Vashem)
January 3, 2019, 5:05 pm
How I measured murder rates during the Holocaust
An investigation into what is referred to as Operation Reinhard, the Nazi slaughter of over 1.5 million Jews in a period of just 100 days
By Lewi Stone
This image provided by the US Holocaust Memorial Museum shows Bulgarian policemen overseeing the deportation of Macedonian Jews to the German death camps in March 1943 in Bulgarian occupied Skopje. (AP Photo/U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, Courtesy of Jewish Historical Museum, Belgrade)
January 3, 2019, 2:52 pm
Israeli study: 1/4 of Jews killed in Holocaust murdered in 100 days in 1942
Prof. Stone analyzes train data to conclude that 1.5 million Jews were slain in 3-month ‘hyperintense’ phase that only slowed because there were few Jews left in occupied Poland
By Michael Bachner
The Holocaust memorial constructed at Treblinka, the former Nazi death camps in eastern Poland (photo credit: Caroline Sturdy Colls)
December 24, 2018, 8:03 am
Underground hideout for Jewish tailor discovered on farm in central Poland
Sabina and Aleksander Smolarek hid neighbor Moshe Bajtel under building after he escaped from the Treblinka death camp
By JTA
Illustrative: A person walks past the building where the 'Warsaw Ghetto Museum' will be located, in Warsaw, Poland, Friday, December 14, 2018. (AP photo/Alik Keplicz)
December 14, 2018, 10:23 pm
Israeli historian lays out vision for new Holocaust museum in Warsaw
Hebrew University’s Daniel Blatman wants the Warsaw Ghetto Museum to portray broader themes of Jewish life and death under Nazi occupation in Poland
By Vanessa Gera
Albert Stankowski, director of the Warsaw Ghetto Museum, stands in front of the former hospital that will house the museum which is under creation and scheduled to open in 2023, in Warsaw, Poland, on Oct. 19, 2018 (AP Photo/Vanessa Gera)
October 19, 2018, 11:36 pm
Poland hands over site of future Warsaw Ghetto Museum
Involvement of the government has made some critics and Jews fear officials may try to distort history
By Vanessa Gera
Israeli youths march by the monument to some 900,000 European Jews killed by the Nazis between 1941 and 1944 at the Treblinka death and labor camp, at Treblinka memorial, Poland on October 2, 2013. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)
August 3, 2018, 3:54 am
Israeli envoy joins Poles to mark 75 years since Treblinka revolt
Widow of one of few who managed to survive 1943 uprising urges authorities to build proper museum at death camp site
By AP
Warsaw Ghetto Holocaust survivor, Krystyna Budnicka poses on April 16, 2018 in front of the Monument to the Ghetto Heroes in Warsaw. (AFP PHOTO/JANEK SKARZYNSKI)
April 18, 2018, 5:53 am
75 years after Warsaw ghetto’s end, survivor recalls losing family in uprising
Krystyna Budnicka lost all seven siblings in the Holocaust; she made it out alive by hiding in an underground bunker and then in the Polish capital’s sewer system
By Bernard OSSER
This handout photo provided by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum shows Aleksander Belev, center, facing camera, the Bulgarian Commissioner for Jewish Questions, overseeing the deportation of Macedonian Jews from Bulgarian-occupied Skopje, Yugoslavia, in March 1943. (AP/Central Zionist Archives via the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum)
March 14, 2018, 11:40 pm
Macedonia adopts definition of anti-Semitism that mentions Israel hatred
Balkan nation joins UK, Romania and Bulgaria in backing International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance definition, as it marks 75th years since deportation of its Jews
By JTA
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
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