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Garden of the Righteous Among the Nations at Yad Vashem. (Courtesy)
April 13, 2018, 3:17 pm
More than a meme against genocide
Practical steps to ensure that no community will ever again be targeted for elimination while the world stands by
By Gina Ross
American astronaut Andrew Feustel in a recorded video message from aboard the International Space Station commemorating Holocaust Remembrance Day, April 12, 2018. (Screen capture: YouTube)
April 13, 2018, 3:07 am
US astronaut sends Holocaust remembrance message from space
Andrew Feustel beams down Yom Hashoah commemoration recorded aboard the International Space Station
By JTA
Diarist Renia Spiegel, who was murdered by the Nazis at the age of 18 in Przemysl, Poland (courtesy: Renia Spiegel Foundation)
April 12, 2018, 7:33 pm
The lost diary of Poland’s ‘Anne Frank’: An untold testament of a truncated life
For decades, few people knew of Renia Spiegel or her journal. The Holocaust victim's sister and a determined filmmaker are working to change that
By Matt Lebovic
People stand still on Jaffa road, central Jerusalem, as a two-minute siren is sounded across Israel to mark Holocaust Remembrance Day on April 12, 2018. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
April 12, 2018, 9:39 am
Israel solemnly remembers 6 million victims on Holocaust Remembrance Day
Nationwide sirens sound at 10 a.m., kicking off ceremonies throughout the country; President Rivlin leads 'March of the Living' at Auschwitz
By Michael Bachner, TOI staff and Agencies
President Reuven Rivlin speaks at the official state ceremony held at the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial Museum in Jerusalem marking Holocaust Remembrance Day on April 11, 2018. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
April 11, 2018, 11:17 pm
In dig at Poland, Rivlin says no legislation can make Jews forget Holocaust
On Holocaust Remembrance eve, president says Europe should pass 'torch of memory and responsibility' to next generation
By TOI staff and AP
Illustrative: Survivors, some accompanied by their children or grandchildren, light six torches at Yad Vashem on the eve of Holocaust Remembrance Day in 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/ Flash 90)
April 10, 2018, 2:00 pm
Six survivors to light torches and give testimony at Yad Vashem ceremony
Holocaust Martyrs’ and Heroes’ Remembrance Day begins Wednesday night, April 11, with annual ceremony
By Jessica Steinberg
Yad Vashem Chairman Avner Shalev addresses the audience at an event in Jerusalem on Tuesday, April 10, 2018. (Screen capture: Facebook)
April 10, 2018, 1:53 pm
Yad Vashem head: Syria gas attack shows failure of post-Holocaust institutions
Ahead of Remembrance Day for WWII genocide, Avner Shalev says 'wild attack on civilians' proves international bodies' impotence in preventing such occurrences
By Michael Bachner
The Lodz ghetto residential area sign reading, 'Jews. Entry Forbidden.' (Henryk Ross/Art Gallery of Ontario, gift from the Archive of Modern Conflict/Courtesy Museum of Fine Arts)
March 15, 2018, 11:39 pm
Poland demands Yad Vashem remove reference to ‘Polish police’ guarding ghetto
In latest dispute relating to incendiary Holocaust law, top Polish official fumes at historically documented Lodz text he saw during tour of Holocaust memorial
By JTA
US President Donald Trump holds his thumb up as he stands in front of the Warsaw Uprising Monument on Krasinski Square during the Three Seas Initiative Summit in Warsaw, Poland, July 6, 2017. (AFP/Saul Loeb)
March 9, 2018, 7:37 pm
Polish FM confirms document revealing US-Polish strain over Holocaust law
White House reportedly refusing to host Polish leaders and withholding funding for joint military projects
By Agencies and TOI staff
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addresses the Economic Club of Washington in Washington, DC, on March 7, 2018. (AFP PHOTO / NICHOLAS KAMM)
March 8, 2018, 1:49 pm
Prime ministers are doin’ it to themselves: 9 things for March 8
Women are the focus of the day, but it's Netanyahu manning up to early elections and attacking the police that leads the news agenda
By Joshua Davidovich
Genia Dvorkin, wearing her prison garb from the labor camps in Estonia and Germany. (Yad Vashem Artifacts Collection)
March 8, 2018, 6:03 am
On International Women’s Day, Yad Vashem launches two female-focused exhibits
Israel's Holocaust museum has two new online collections built around the unique experience of Jewish women in the Holocaust
By Tracy Frydberg
Conceptualization of the Holocaust and human rights museum under construction in Dallas, Texas, set to open in 2019, created by Berenbaum Jacobs Associates (courtesy)
February 26, 2018, 10:03 pm
New Holocaust museums draw connections to local history to inspire ‘upstanders’
From Skokie to Skopje, newly designed memorials encourage visitors to 'participate in repair' -- by looking within themselves
By Matt Lebovic
Photo of Nathan van Dam and his bride Esther Israel, Nazi-occupied Holand, 1942. Found in Nathan van Dam's recovered wallet. (Martine van Dam)
February 14, 2018, 1:01 am
New campaign launched to return personal effects to victims of Nazi persecution
International Tracing Service uses outdoor exhibitions, collaborative technology to find owners of confiscated jewelry, wallets, photos, and other everyday items of #StolenMemory
By Renee Ghert-Zand
Holocaust survivors and activists take part at a protest at the Polish embassy in Tel Aviv, February 8, 2018. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)
February 8, 2018, 5:08 pm
Complicity of Poles in the deaths of Jews is highly underestimated, scholars say
According to a 1970 article, 200,000 Jews died at the hands of their Polish neighbors. A new law in Poland could make it difficult to publish these findings today
By Amanda Borschel-Dan
A special section of Yad Vashem that pays tribute to the Righteous of the Nations. (Naama Bar-Am)
February 8, 2018, 3:42 pm
But people aren’t really EVIL, are they?
Why our brains insist that clearly barbaric behavior must be a delusion
By Ely Simon
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