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A drawing by David Olere (Youtube)
September 15, 2017, 9:46 pm
Poland acquires gas chamber paintings by late Holocaust survivor
Thanks to culture ministry's purchase, Auschwitz museum now has the world's largest collection of David Olere paintings
By Anna Maria Jakubek
US President Donald Trump (C-R) and First Lady Melania Trump (C-L) lay a wreath during a visit to the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial museum, on May 23, 2017, in Jerusalem. (MANDEL NGAN / AFP)
August 14, 2017, 5:22 pm
Yad Vashem warns of Nazi ideology on display in Virginia
Natan Sharansky also slams Charlottesville neo-Nazi rally, says 'there is no place for hate speech or violence in any democratic society'
By TOI staff
Nadia Murad, 24, a Yazidi woman who escaped Islamic State captivity, tours Yad Vashem in Jerusalem on July 24, 2017 (Mickey Noam-Alon/IsraAID)
July 25, 2017, 9:26 pm
At Yad Vashem, Yazidi activists seek to learn how to record their genocide
With 3,000 Yazidi women still in IS captivity and hundreds of thousands displaced, survivors tour Holocaust memorial with sights set on their own commemoration
By Marissa Newman
July 21, 2017, 3:51 pm
On removing the fear of ‘Other’
It takes grassroots gatherings, like a student tour of Yad Vashem, for Jews and Palestinians to get to know each other
By Uri Pilichowski
A student on a trip to the Auschwitz-Birkenau camp site in modern-day Poland on April 27, 2014. (Yossi Zeliger/Flash 90)
July 10, 2017, 3:19 pm
Travel agents face prosecution for Poland memorial trips cartel
14 people suspected of fixing prices on youth trips to Eastern Europe to learn about Holocaust
By Sue Surkes
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, center in white, is given a bouquet of flowers during a visit to the Danzinger Flower Farm accompanied by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, far right, on July 4, 2017. (Haim Tzach/GPO)
July 4, 2017, 9:55 pm
Israel names new flower in honor of visiting Indian prime minister
Netanyahu accompanies Narendra Modi to Danziger Flower Farm, Yad Vashem, as historic trip begins
By Stuart Winer and TOI staff
Indian Ambassador to Israel Pavan Kapoor in his Tel Aviv office (Courtesy Indian Embassy Tel Aviv)
July 2, 2017, 9:26 pm
India has ‘matured,’ so ties with Israel are flowering, envoy says
Ahead of first-ever visit by an Indian PM, Ambassador Kapoor says New Delhi no longer 'hyphenates' its relationships with Jerusalem and Ramallah
By Raphael Ahren
A World War II monument in Simferopol, in Crimea. (CC BY SA 3.0 Rumlin/Wikipedia)
June 30, 2017, 7:37 pm
Thieves exhume Holocaust victims from Crimean killing trench
Jewish community plans to set up concrete barrier around site and surveillance cameras as deterrence
By JTA
Michael Bornstein shows his tattoo to students in Illinois while on tour speaking about standing up to hate. (Courtesy)
June 24, 2017, 2:49 am
In memoir for young adults, harsh WWII life lessons teach about standing up to hate
While touring with 'Survivors Club,' Holocaust survivor Michael Bornstein and daughter Debbie Holinstat also inoculate youth against denial
By Cathryn J. Prince
June 10, 2017, 2:22 am
A Polish school does teshuvah
The principal called roll with the roster from 1939, giving voice to the Jewish students who were kicked out that year
By Avi Baumol
Jews are marched through the streets during the liquidation of the Krakow Ghetto, 1943 (Public Domain/Wikimedia Commons)
May 23, 2017, 10:59 pm
Poland school honors 87 Jewish girls expelled under Nazis
Principal at Krakow institution enlists the help of Yad Vashem in tracking down fates of victims
By AP
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (R) delivers a speech as his wife Sara and US President Donald Trump listen during a ceremony at the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial museum on May 23, 2017, in Jerusalem. (MANDEL NGAN / AFP)
May 23, 2017, 2:32 pm
Full text of Prime Minister Netanyahu’s remarks at Yad Vashem
'We pledge never to be defenseless again,' Israeli PM tells Trump at Holocaust memorial
By TOI staff
US President Donald Trump (C-R) and First Lady Melania Trump (C-L) lay a wreath during a visit to the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial museum on May 23, 2017, in Jerusalem. (MANDEL NGAN / AFP)
May 23, 2017, 2:26 pm
At Yad Vashem, Trump says Holocaust ‘the most savage crime against God’
In follow-up remarks, Netanyahu invokes recent attacks, says 'In Manchester, San Bernardino or Jerusalem: Terror is terror is terror'
By TOI staff
US President Donald Trump greeting Israeli ministers during his welcome ceremony at Ben Gurion Airport, May 22, 2017. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)
May 23, 2017, 8:42 am
On second day of visit, Trump to go to PA, give key Israel address
US president's final hours in the Holy Land will see him meeting Abbas, paying his respects at a brief visit to Yad Vashem
By Jacob Magid
Ester Goldstein, left, and sister Margot lived in Berlin before they were separated in 1939. (Courtesy of Yad Vashem/via JTA)
May 23, 2017, 8:01 am
Short on time, Yad Vashem packing emotion into Trump visit
Israel's Holocaust memorial to focus on the human toll through the story of one German Jewish girl, Ester Goldstein, murdered in the Riga ghetto
By Andrew Tobin
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