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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 424

World War II

Marianne Bern and the key she kept from the Bielefeld synagogue that was destroyed on Kristallnacht. (Courtesy of Jennifer Bern-Vogel via JTA)
November 12, 2024, 3:36 am
86 years after Kristallnacht, German congregation gets back key to destroyed synagogue
The relic, one of only two items that survived, was kept by a young girl who escaped the Nazis on the Kindertransport; now it heads home to a community in the midst of a revival
By jacob gurvis
H. Keith Melton points to a key on an Enigma Machine with four rotors and a some Japanese characters that was used in World War II to encode messages, September 13, 2017, in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
November 10, 2024, 8:30 am
‘Holocaust Codes’ pits British codebreaker against SS leader in battle for secrecy
Author Christian Jennings delivers jarring account of Allied codebreaker who deciphered Holocaust’s evolution from open-air massacres to purpose-built death camps
By Matt Lebovic
Italy's Prime Minister and leader of the far-right party Brothers of Italy (Fratelli D'Italia - FDI) Giorgia Meloni holds flowers during a press conference following the results of the European Elections in Rome on June 10, 2024.(Filippo Monteforte/AFP)
October 26, 2024, 7:20 pm
Italy commemorates defeated fascist troops who fought with Nazis in key WWII battle
Italian defense ministry says soldiers killed at El Alamein died for ‘freedom’; opposition slams far-right government, says troops ‘were sent to die’ by fascists
By AP
This photograph, taken on September 20, 2024 shows a Star of David on a Jewish tombstone at the Mirogoj cemetery in Zagreb, Croatia. (Damir Sencar / AFP)
October 12, 2024, 6:48 pm
Croatia moves to protect 52 Jewish cemeteries after decades of neglect, destruction
Law stipulated that graves could be reassigned if fee not paid, meaning remains of over 3,000 Jews were exhumed because families decimated by Holocaust had nobody left to pay
By Lajla Veselica
'The Rise of the Spider' by Michael P. Spradlin. (Courtesy)
October 5, 2024, 8:20 am
Depicting interwar Germany’s rising Nazi party, new kids novel teaches history, morality
‘The Rise of the Spider’ by NY Times bestselling author Michael P. Spradlin aims to show young readers that it’s everyday people who change the world for the better
By Penny Schwartz
History teachers attending the September 2-6, 2024, Holocaust education conference organized by TOLI gather for a group photo at Albania’s University of Elbasan. (Larry Luxner/JTA)
September 16, 2024, 5:00 pm
Albania saved Jews from Nazis. Now educators teach the Holocaust to a new generation
Few youth know Albania is the only European country whose Jewish population was higher after WWII; a teachers’ conference aims to change that – and inspire kids with the country’s heroism
By Larry Luxner
A Catholic priest conducts a funeral service for remains of over 700 victims of German crimes of the World War II, discovered in the so-called Valley of Death, at the Minor Basilica of the Holy Trinity of St. John the Baptist in Chojnice, Poland, on September 2, 2024. (Sergei GAPON / AFP)
September 2, 2024, 5:51 pm
Poland holds state burial for over 700 World War II victims of Nazi Germany
Teachers, priests, police officers, forestry and postal workers, and landowners were among hundreds massacred in Chojnice in early 1945
By MONIKA SCISLOWSKA
People lay a wreath at the monument to the 1939 heroic defense of the Westerplatte peninsula outpost during solemn observances of the 85th anniversary of the outbreak of World War II, at Westerplatte, on the Baltic Sea, Poland, September 1, 2024. (Wojciech Strozyk/AP)
September 1, 2024, 1:33 pm
Now fearing Russia, Poland marks 85 years since German invasion of World War II
Prime Minister Tusk says best lesson to learn from WWII is for West to unite against ‘aggression’ on battlefields of Ukraine, not just speak of ‘reconciliation’
By AP
Nazi propagandist Leni Riefenstahl is seen at the garden of her home in Kitzbuhel, Austria, in May 1, 1945. (AP Photo/Jim Pringle)
August 29, 2024, 1:23 pm
Nazi filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl’s set directions may have led to killing of Polish Jews
New documentary shows propagandist’s lifelong commitment to Nazi cause, casting doubt on her denial of knowledge of atrocities which enabled her rehabilitation in postwar Germany
By ToI Staff
A gardener waters the lawn between the tombstones at the Commonwealth Gaza War Cemetery, commonly known as the British War Cemetery and in which are interred the remains of 3217 Allied soldiers who died during World War I, in Gaza City on September 28, 2022. (Mahmud Hams/AFP)
August 17, 2024, 9:22 am
Hamas plotted to threaten UK in 2022 by ‘kidnapping’ bodies of WWI soldiers – report
British daily reveals terror group’s plan, uncovered by IDF during Khan Younis raid this year, to exhume troops, hold them to demand UK not move embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem
By ToI Staff
Illustrative: Workers put up a commemorative plaque outside barracks formerly used to house forced laborers now turned into a memorial and museum documenting Nazi Germany´s widespread use of forced labor in Berlin´s Schoeneweide district 24 August 2006. (Photo by JOHN MACDOUGALL / AFP)
August 15, 2024, 3:28 pm
German biscuit giant apologizes for larger-than-known Nazi-era slave labor force
Bahlsen heiress had sparked controversy for saying firm treated captives as well as Germans; 800 people were forced to make rations for German troops, 3 to 4 times previous estimate
By AFP
Doves fly over the Peace Statue during a ceremony to mark the 79th anniversary of the US atomic bombing at the Peace Park in Nagasaki, southern Japan Friday, Aug. 9, 2024. (Japan Pool/Kyodo News via AP)
August 9, 2024, 10:05 pm
Nagasaki marks A-bomb anniversary without US and other envoys after excluding Israel
Six Western ambassadors skip the event, attending an alternative Tokyo ceremony, after mayor leaves Jewish state out of proceedings
By Agencies and ToI Staff
Eighty-five-year-old atomic bombing survivor Takeko Kudo (3rd L) and other representatives observe a moment of silence at the time of the bombing at 11:02 am during a peace memorial ceremony at an indoor facility due to approaching Typhoon Khanun in Nagasaki, Nagasaki prefecture on August 9, 2023, as the city marks the 78th anniversary of the atomic bombing during World War II. (Photo by JAPAN POOL / JIJI Press / AFP) / Japan OUT / JAPAN OUT
August 7, 2024, 5:39 pm
Western ambassadors pull out of Nagasaki memorial after Israel not invited
Slamming Japanese mayor’s ‘politicization’ of event, US and British embassies say they’ll send lower-ranking diplomats; Australia, Italy, Canada and EU slated to follow suit
By AFP and ToI Staff
World leaders in Hiroshima, western Japan Sunday, May 21, 2023, on the sidelines of the G7 summit. (Takashi Aoyama/Pool Photo via AP)
July 20, 2024, 6:47 pm
Hiroshima dismisses calls to disinvite Israel from atomic bomb commemorations
Some activists and survivors say it’s a double standard to invite Israel after disinviting Russia and Belarus, but others support the presence of nations at war
By ToI Staff
US soldiers carry the coffin of 1st. Lt. Nathan B. Baskind, who was buried in a German mass grave after being killed in WWII and recently reburied after DNA testing proved his identity, in Normandy, France, June 23, 2024. (Benjamin Mack-Jackson)
June 30, 2024, 4:59 pm
After 80 years in a Nazi grave, Jewish American WWII hero reburied under Star of David
1st Lt. Nathan B. Baskind was killed in Normandy after D-Day. His body was never returned, but thanks to dedication and new technology, his is one of the site’s few Jewish funerals
By Benjamin Mack-Jackson
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