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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 477

Yehuda Bauer

Yehuda Bauer in his apartment in the Beit HaKerem neighborhood of Jerusalem on July 3, 2023. (Charlie Summers/Times of Israel)
October 18, 2024, 11:10 pm
Yehuda Bauer, influential Holocaust scholar, dies at age 98
Bauer challenged the prevalent ‘sheep to the slaughter’ narrative tacked onto Holocaust survivors in Israel, helped draft leading antisemitism definition
By Charlie Summers
Yad Vashem chief Dani Dayan in the Hall of Names at the Jerusalem museum, undated. (Alex Kolomoisky)
September 3, 2023, 10:03 am
123 Holocaust experts: Gov’t attack on Yad Vashem chief threatens memory of 6 million
Educators from around the world voice ‘great concern’ over coalition’s ostensible effort to dismiss Dani Dayan and replace him with a political appointment
By ToI Staff
Holocaust scholar Prof. Yehuda Bauer addresses world leaders at a dinner at the President's Residence in Jerusalem as part of the World Holocaust Forum on January 22, 2020. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)
August 4, 2023, 1:12 pm
Historian Yehuda Bauer: Israel’s own politicians add to global Holocaust distortion
The preeminent scholar, 97, talks about participating in Israel’s establishment, the country’s current political state, and the book he hopes to finish next year
By Charlie Summers
Moshe Kantor, the head of the European Jewish Congress, is pictured during an interview with AFP in Jerusalem on January 6, 2020. (Menahem Kahana/AFP)
January 23, 2020, 12:59 pm
As Holocaust memorial begins, organizers deny event becoming politicized
Moshe Kantor claims world forum has succeeded in using Holocaust remembrance to highlight ‘the crisis of anti-Semitism,’ adds, ‘It’s ‘a shame that Poland is not part of that’
By Raoul Wootliff and Raphael Ahren
Holocaust scholar Prof. Yehuda Bauer addresses world leaders at a dinner at the President's Residence in Jerusalem as part of the World Holocaust Forum on January 22, 2020. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)
January 22, 2020, 10:02 pm
Holocaust scholar’s speech to world leaders: Anti-Semitism destroys your nations
At state dinner in Jerusalem for World Holocaust Forum, Prof. Yehuda Bauer tells dignitaries that ‘anti-Semitism is not a Jewish illness, but a non-Jewish one’
By ToI Staff
President Reuven Rivlin addresses world leaders at a dinner at the President's Residence in Jerusalem as part of the World Holocaust Forum on January 22, 2020. (Screenshot)
January 22, 2020, 9:30 pm
At ‘historic gathering,’ Rivlin swears leaders into fight against Jew-hatred
President warns dignitaries visiting Israel for summit on anti-Semitism against any attempts to rewrite history; Spanish king says ‘remembrance alone is unfortunately not enough’
By Raphael Ahren
Preparations under way at the President's Residence in Jerusalem on January 20, 2020, for a state dinner for world leaders attending the World Holocaust Forum events marking the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz. (Courtesy: Alon Fargo)
January 22, 2020, 7:41 am
Everything you must know about the biggest diplomatic event in Israel’s history
Who’s coming and who’s boycotting the event? Who will be allowed to speak? Will Putin sit next to Pence? What are the leaders doing in their spare time? And what’s on the menu?
By Raphael Ahren
Professor Yehuda Bauer at an award ceremony in Jerusalem, December 4, 2016. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
January 20, 2020, 10:38 am
World War II was caused by hatred of Jews, preeminent Holocaust scholar says
Yehuda Bauer says it’s ‘unfortunate’ Poland’s Duda will skip Auschwitz memorial, argues current rise in anti-Semitism is due to ‘nationalist revival’ following mass immigration
By Raphael Ahren
Smashed and dilapidated graves at the old Jewish cemetery in Kaunas, Lithuania, July 2019 (Raphael Ahren/TOI)
August 4, 2019, 10:17 am
Graves, guilt and genius: Inside Lithuania’s struggle with its checkered past
Once an epicenter of Jewish life, the Baltic state still refuses to come clean about its dark history, critics charge. But recent developments show it is a work in progress
By Raphael Ahren
Survivors of Auschwitz, at the International Monument to the Victims of Fascism at Auschwitz II-Birkenau, walk to place candles on International Holocaust Remembrance Day in Poland, January 27, 2019. (Czarek Sokolowski/AP)
January 29, 2019, 12:26 pm
Remembering the Holocaust, Poland blots out any mention of its complicity
Tens of thousands of Poles, at least, helped the Nazis kill Jews, but Warsaw is focusing on Polish suffering in WWII and trying to frame its people as rescuers, historian says
By Raphael Ahren
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (right) speaks with Education Minister Naftali Bennett on November 13, 2017, in the Knesset. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
July 5, 2018, 5:17 pm
Bennett: Israel-Poland Holocaust declaration ‘a disgrace, saturated with lies’
Following criticism from Yad Vashem, education minister calls agreement a ‘betrayal of Holocaust victims,’ says it won’t be taught in schools; opposition leaders slam Netanyahu
By Raoul Wootliff
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu lays a wreath of flowers during the official state ceremony for the national Holocaust Remembrance Day at the Holocaust Museum Yad Vashem, on April 27, 2014. (photo credit: Haim Zach/GPO/Flash 90)
July 5, 2018, 4:16 pm
Yad Vashem slams ‘highly problematic’ Israeli-Polish Holocaust statement
Joint declaration includes ‘grave errors and deceptions,’ institution’s historians argue; senior minister demands Netanyahu rescind it
By Raphael Ahren
A copy of the Polish-Israeli agreement appearing in Yedioth Ahronoth on July 5. 2018. (Joshua Davidovich/Times of Israel)
July 5, 2018, 11:48 am
Poles launch global drive to promote Holocaust law deal, roiling Israeli critics
Knesset members charge Jerusalem handed Warsaw a PR victory as full-page ads with joint declaration appear in English, Hebrew, German, Spanish and French
By Raphael Ahren
People from all over the world participating in the March of the Living at the Auschwitz-Birkenau camp site in Poland, as Israel marks annual Holocaust Memorial Day, on April 24, 2017. (Yossi Zeliger/Flash90)
July 4, 2018, 6:22 am
Does the Israeli-Polish Holocaust law agreement defend truth or betray history?
Jerusalem feted Warsaw’s cancellation of law banning claims of Polish complicity in Holocaust, but eminent Israeli scholar says mundane realpolitik trumped historical verity
By Raphael Ahren
SS chief Heinrich Himmler (center) shakes hands with Hitler's photographer, Heinrich Hoffmann, around 1941 (public domain)
June 20, 2018, 1:57 pm
New book claims a ‘secret deal’ between Nazis and Allies cut the Holocaust short
Journalist Max Wallace writes that a hushed-up pact between Heinrich Himmler and his sworn enemies prompted the SS chief to destroy the gas chambers of Auschwitz. Experts disagree
By Matt Lebovic
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