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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 530

US Holocaust Memorial Museum

US President Joe Biden speaks at Union Station in Washington on April 9, 2024. (Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP)
May 1, 2024, 11:18 pm
Biden to discuss ‘scourge of antisemitism’ in Holocaust Remembrance Day speech
May 7 keynote address at Capitol comes amid record-high rates of anti-Jewish hate, and as anti-Israel campus encampments have caused many Jewish students to feel unsafe
By ToI Staff and JTA
Harvard president Claudine Gay, left, and University of Pennsylvania president Liz Magill listen during a hearing of the House Committee on Education on Capitol Hill, Dec. 5, 2023 in Washington. (AP/Mark Schiefelbein)
December 7, 2023, 11:11 am
Heads of Harvard, Penn condemn Jewish genocide calls after appearing to condone speech
University presidents had refused to say calling for genocide of Jews is harassment on their campuses at House hearing, drawing anger; White House and Holocaust museums join outcry
By ToI Staff and JTA
US President Bill Clinton (C) lights the eternal flame at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum 22 April 1993 with help from Memorial Council Chairman Harvey Meyerhoff (L) and Founding Chairman Elie Wiesel (R) (RENAUD GIROUX / AFP)
August 8, 2023, 11:54 am
Harvey Meyerhoff, chair of US Holocaust Memorial Museum at its founding, dies at 96
Real estate businessman raised the $150 million in private funds that built the museum; was also prominent supporter of the arts, culture and education in Baltimore and Israel
By Andrew Silow-Carroll
Head of Yad Vashem Dani Dayan (Alex Kolomoisky/Yad Vashem)
February 27, 2022, 6:14 pm
Yad Vashem ‘deplores’ Russian invasion, condemns use of Nazi rhetoric by both sides
Israel’s Holocaust museum, which has received major donations from Putin-tied oligarchs, refrains from singling out Moscow in its statement, on 4th day after fighting began
By Judah Ari Gross
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is broadcast on a large screen as he speaks during an anti-vaccine rally in front of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, DC, on January 23, 2022. (Patrick Semansky/AP)
January 24, 2022, 11:48 pm
Holocaust memorials, ADL slam RFK Jr. for ‘reckless’ Anne Frank comparison
Yad Vashem, US Holocaust Museum and Anti-Defamation League speak out after anti-vaccine activist compares health mandates to Nazi German terror in Sunday speech
By AP and ToI Staff
A person stands in a tower on the perimeter of the Number 3 Detention Center in Dabancheng in western China's Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, on April 23, 2021. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)
November 9, 2021, 9:46 pm
US Holocaust Museum says China stepping up abuses against Uyghurs
Committee demands Beijing end its crimes, including ‘forced sterilization, torture, sexual violence, and forced labor,’ against Muslim minority
By Matthew Lee
Susi Kasper Leiter and Jacob Leiter hold family bible, August 12, 2021. (Jacob Leiter/Courtesy)
August 15, 2021, 3:57 pm
After nearly 80 years, Holocaust survivor and grandson reunite with family Bible
Book was hidden by Jewish German couple before they were deported and eventually killed by Nazis; it was found during renovation in 1990 and later made its way to their descendants
By ToI Staff
US Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene speaks at a news conference after visiting the Holocaust Museum, outside the US Capitol, on June 14, 2021. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images/AFP)
June 15, 2021, 3:20 am
Marjorie Taylor Greene apologizes for comparing mask requirements to Holocaust
Controversial Republican lawmaker retracts statements after visit to US Holocaust Museum: ‘There’s no comparison and there never ever will be’
By Alan Fram
Judges deliberate at the trials of Nazi war criminals in Nuremberg, Germany, Jan. 1, 1945 (The US Holocaust Memorial Museum via JTA)
January 16, 2021, 1:13 pm
Complete Nuremberg Trials recordings online for the first time
US Holocaust Memorial Museum uploads over 700 hours of audio recordings, many of them in German without translation, as well as 37 reels of film introduced as evidence
By Cnaan Liphshiz
US President Donald Trump arrives to speak at a rally of his supporters on January 6, 2021, in Washington, shortly before the mob assault on the US Capitol. (AP/Jacquelyn Martin)
January 9, 2021, 9:19 am
ADL says Trump ‘unfit for office,’ should be removed from US presidency
Watchdog head notes organization is making call for 1st time in its history; US Holocaust museum condemns ‘desecration’ of US Capitol by people displaying neo-Nazi symbols
By Ron Kampeas
Richard Grenell, former acting director of national intelligence, speaks at a White House ceremony, September 4, 2020. (Anna Moneymaker-Pool/Getty Images/JTA)
December 23, 2020, 11:40 pm
Trump picks former envoy to Germany for Holocaust museum post
Richard Grenell is known as a staunch Israel advocate, but has also caused controversy for lauding German hyper-nationalist right-wing parties
By Ron Kampeas
Andrew Giuliani (R) and Olympic figure skater Sarah Hughes attend the the world premiere of 'The Other Guys' at the Ziegfeld Theatre on Monday, Aug. 2, 2010 in New York. (AP Photo/Evan Agostini)
December 17, 2020, 1:53 am
Trump names Rudy Giuliani’s son and 2 other aides to Holocaust Museum Council
Other appointees are Mitchell Webber, a lawyer in Office of the White House Counsel, and Trump’s personal attendant Nick Luna; they are expected to fundraise for institution
By Ron Kampeas
Lily Ebert, second-right, in the video reel taken by US troops while she was boarding a train after liberation of Buchenwald (Screen grab)
From the WebAugust 13, 2020, 1:20 pm
For 1st time, survivor, 96, sees clip of herself after Buchenwald liberation
Lily Ebert watches footage filmed by US troops in June 1945 in the camp; grandson found the recording through US Holocaust Memorial Museum, UK Jewish News reports
Young man in an internment camp (US Holocaust Memorial Museum, Gift of David Spegal)
February 22, 2020, 4:29 pm
9 standouts as US Holocaust Museum shares New Yorkers’ artifacts from WWII
Rescuing the evidence: Museum collects 250 items from families in ‘a race against time’ to preserve memories of the war
By Josefin Dolsten
Mohammed al-Issa, the secretary-general of the Muslim World League, speaking on April 25, 2018 at the Museum of Jewish Heritage - A Living Memorial to the Holocaust. (Screenshot: American Sephardi Federation)
January 22, 2020, 6:06 pm
Senior Saudi religious leader set for ‘groundbreaking’ visit to Auschwitz Thurs.
Saudi prince’s ally Mohammed al-Issa, other Muslim religious leaders and AJC officials also slated to tour a Jewish museum and a mosque in Warsaw, share a Shabbat meal
By Adam Rasgon
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