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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 563

World War II

101-year-old Hilbert Margol, a World War II veteran who served in the US Army's 42nd Infantry Division, which liberated Dachau. (Benjamin Mack-Jackson)
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101-year-old WWII veteran recalls US Army’s seder night, weeks before liberating Dachau
By Benjamin Mack-Jackson
Hilbert Margol still regularly speaks about the atrocities he saw firsthand at the notorious Nazi concentration camp as a young US soldier: ‘We didn’t understand what we were seeing’
A European and German flags wave at the Reichstag building, the house of German parliament Bundestag at the eve of the national election in Berlin, Germany, Saturday, Feb. 22, 2025. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)
April 17, 2025, 4:20 pm
Berlin WWII event snubs Russian, Belarusian envoys over Ukraine war
German foreign ministry blacklists ambassadors, citing risk that commemorations could be ‘exploited and misused’ to justify Russian invasion
By AFP
101-year-old Hilbert Margol, a World War II veteran who served in the US Army's 42nd Infantry Division, which liberated Dachau. (Benjamin Mack-Jackson)
April 14, 2025, 3:47 pm
101-year-old WWII veteran recalls US Army’s seder night, weeks before liberating Dachau
Hilbert Margol still regularly speaks about the atrocities he saw firsthand at the notorious Nazi concentration camp as a young US soldier: ‘We didn’t understand what we were seeing’
By Benjamin Mack-Jackson
From 'Heroines,' an exhibit about fashion design during wartime at the Holon Design Museum, from April 2025 (Credit Elad Sarig)
April 8, 2025, 7:07 am
Fashion exhibit looks at design as symbol of hope during World War II
Holon Design Museum launches ‘Heroines,’ a look at World War Two-era designers who leaned on fashion, as well as Holocaust items
By Jessica Steinberg
An image showing the display case in the US Naval Academy’s Jewish chapel before and after a visit by US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, April 2025, with and without memorabilia from female Jewish graduates. (Military Religious Freedom Foundation)
April 4, 2025, 11:26 am
US naval academy pulled exhibit for female Jewish graduates ahead of Hegseth visit
Academy cites mistake, restores memorabilia; move raised questions if exhibit was taken down in line with defense secretary’s orders targeting diversity, equity and inclusion
By Grace Gilson
Left to right: Huguette Müller, and Marion Müller at the French resort village of Théoule-sur-Mer in 1943. (Courtesy of Tim Judah)
March 25, 2025, 5:44 am
In Nazi-occupied French Alps, a doctor risked death to save a Jewish girl. Why didn’t others?
Newly published ‘Two Sisters’ is a family memoir that goes back and forth in time to examine motivations for resistance and questions of morality in Vichy France
By Renee Ghert-Zand
Etta Shiber, seen in a publicity photo for the 1943 book 'Paris-Underground,' and Kate Bonnefous, shown in 1940, were friends and unlikely heroes of the early French resistance. (Courtesy Ballantine Books via JTA)
March 12, 2025, 6:08 am
Two friends defied the Nazis. Then one woman ‘wrote’ a book that betrayed the other
In ‘Paris Undercover,’ author Matthew Goodman digs up the truth behind a successful ‘memoir’ that played fast and loose with facts as one of its subjects sat in Nazi prison
By Andrew Silow-Carroll
This picture taken in Paris on April 28, 2024 shows a Thalys train of French railway company SNCF at Gare du Nord railway station. (JOEL SAGET / AFP)
March 7, 2025, 10:08 am
WWII bomb found on tracks to Paris Gare du Nord train station, halting traffic
Unexploded ordnance found ‘in the middle of the tracks’ during maintenance work; all trains to the station, including Eurostar, are stopped
By Agencies
A still from 'Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Spy, Assassin'. (Courtesy)
January 28, 2025, 3:30 am
Film about hero executed by Nazis faces accusations of abetting Christian nationalism
‘Bonhoeffer: Pastor. Spy. Assassin’ portrays a real-life minister martyred for standing up for his beliefs, but critics including his descendants say it hides a political message
By Rich Tenorio
Manfred Goldberg, a Holocaust survivor, is interviewed in London, January 22, 2025. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth)
January 26, 2025, 4:13 pm
Manfred Goldberg remembers the ‘angel who was sent to save me’ in a Nazi labor camp
‘I never saw him again,’ says the 94-year-old, German-born Holocaust survivor of the man who advised him to lie about his age, sparing him the fate of his younger brother Herman
By DANICA KIRKA
Britain's Prime Minister Keir Starmer and his wife Victoria Starmer visit the Memorial And Museum Auschwitz-Birkenau in Oswiecim, Poland, Jan. 17, 2025. (Aleksandra Szmigiel/Pool via AP)
January 17, 2025, 7:47 pm
Visiting Auschwitz, UK’s Starmer decries ‘poison of antisemitism rising around the world’
British PM says trip to concentration camp enabled him to see more clearly how the industrial-level killing was ‘a collective endeavor by thousands of ordinary people’
By AP and ToI Staff
A sign of the Credit Suisse which reads in German as 'part of the UBS group' and displayed on a branch of Swiss banking giant UBS in the resort of St. Moritz on December 20, 2024.(Fabrice COFFRINI / AFP)
January 5, 2025, 6:34 pm
More records found linking Credit Suisse to Nazi accounts, US Senate panel says
Budget Committee says tens of thousands of uncovered documents, microfilms have ‘high relevance rate’ of Nazi ties; ombudsperson cites bank file dealing with looted Jewish assets
By AFP
The repurposed 1916 diary used by Charlotte Buchsbaum to document her life and the end of World War II. (Left image courtesy of Helaina Ferraoili. Center, right images screenshots via TikTok vi JTA)
December 19, 2024, 2:16 am
How a Jewish teen’s description of New York life in 1945 is going viral on TikTok
Charlotte Buchsbaum, who grew up in Brooklyn, wrote about going to bar mitzvahs, celebrating Passover and cheering the US victory over Japan. Now she has an audience of millions
By Jackie Hajdenberg
US Marines of the 28th Regiment, 5th Division, raise a US flag atop Mount Suribachi, Iwo Jima, Japan, Feb. 23, 1945. (AP Photo/Joe Rosenthal, File)
December 13, 2024, 10:09 pm
San Francisco names street for Joe Rosenthal, who took iconic Iwo Jima photograph
Image became centerpiece of war bonds poster that helped raise $26 billion in 1945; when complimented, Rosenthal said: ‘Sure, I took the photo. But the Marines took Iwo Jima’
By Janie Har and TERRY CHEA
This photograph taken on December 6, 2024, shows a pages from original manuscript of General de Gaulle's 1940 "Appeal of June 18," displayed ahead of an auction of General de Gaulle's personal memorabilia and writings (the manuscript displayed in the photograph is not up for sale, however), at Artcurial auction house in Paris. (Grégoire CAMPIONE / AFP)
December 7, 2024, 9:58 am
Famed De Gaulle WWII speech against Nazis on show for first time
Manuscript of French war leader’s so-called ‘Appeal of June 18’ urging resistance featuring at auction house in Paris
By AFP
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
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