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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 528

Yoram Haimi

The former Nazi death camp Sobibor, in eastern Poland, where more than 200,000 Jews were murdered during the Holocaust. A long-anticipated museum and visitor center is under construction, September 30, 2017 (Elan Kawesch/The Times of Israel)
June 3, 2019, 11:50 pm
With death of last Sobibor survivor, experts feud over site’s transformation
After passing of Sobibor revolt participant Semyon Rosenfeld on Monday, there will be no survivors to witness completion of the former Nazi death camp’s makeover next year
By Matt Lebovic
The former Nazi death camp Sobibor, in eastern Poland, where more than 200,000 Jews were murdered during the Holocaust. A long-anticipated museum and visitor center is under construction, September 30, 2017 (Elan Kawesch/The Times of Israel)
October 17, 2017, 11:49 am
At former Nazi death camp Sobibor, a post-Holocaust construction boom
After decades of obscurity, a one-time Nazi-built extermination center is being transformed to commemorate Jewish victims and attract more visitors
By Matt Lebovic
Entrance to former death camp at Sobibor in eastern Poland (photo: public domain)
June 4, 2015, 3:20 pm
Sobibor memorial plans suspended following protests
Proposed construction would destroy archaeological findings and disturb human remains, claim activists
By JTA
British-born forensics expert Caroline Sturdy Colls. (Courtesy)
April 7, 2015, 10:34 am
British forensics expert shapes the future of Holocaust research
With her new book on non-invasive methods in Shoah archeology, 29-year-old Prof. Caroline Sturdy Colls prepares for a future without eye-witnesses
By Matt Lebovic
Israeli archaeologist Yoram Haimi, right, has been warning of threats to important historical artifacts at the Sobibor death camp in Poland, September 2013. (Courtesy of Yoram Haimi/JTA)
February 6, 2015, 5:08 pm
No new building on mass graves, say Sobibor activists
Gas chamber discovery at the Nazi extermination camp spurs calls to review museum project
By Cnaan Liphshiz
Fragment of a ceramic cup excavated at the former Nazi death camp Sobibor, with an image of Mickey Mouse. The artifact was unearthed by archeologists Wojtek Mazurek and Yoram Haimi in 2014 (Matt Lebovic/The Times of Israel).
December 4, 2014, 1:44 pm
Is Sobibor to be the new ‘Disneyland’ of Nazi death camps?
Without a fence or a guard, Polish visitors walk their pets and ride bikes while crunching human bones lying exposed on the grounds
By Matt Lebovic
The gas chambers at the Sobibor death camp in Poland (Photo by Yoram Haimi)
September 17, 2014, 7:04 pm
71 years later, Sobibor gas chambers unearthed
Yad Vashem announces ‘very important’ find at death camp where 250,000 Jews were murdered over 18 months in 1942-3
By Marissa Newman
At Sobibor, an excavator unearths a skeleton toward the end of 2013 (photo courtesy: Wojtek Mazurek)
March 8, 2014, 10:08 am
At Sobibor: building in the heart of a death camp
A controversial plan for a visitor center and memorial disrupts ongoing archeological digs. Is there still time — or a need — to uncover the past?
By Matt Lebovic
Entrance to former death camp at Sobibor in eastern Poland (photo: public domain)
October 14, 2013, 5:13 am
70 years after revolt, Sobibor secrets are yet to be unearthed
This season’s scheduled excavations are the most important to date. So why is the Polish government delaying authorization?
By Matt Lebovic
Archaeologist Yoram Haimi talking to young people from the Dror School in Israel about his findings at the site of the former German Nazi death camp of Sobibor, in eastern Poland, on Tuesday, Aug. 21, 2012 (photo credit: AP/Czarek Sokolowski)
June 9, 2013, 5:27 pm
Underground tunnel discovered at Sobibor
Subterranean passage, unearthed by Polish and Israeli archaeologists, may have been dug by prisoners at former death camp
Archaeologist Yoram Haimi talking to young people from the Dror School in Israel about his findings at the site of the former German Nazi death camp of Sobibor, in eastern Poland, on Tuesday, Aug. 21, 2012 (photo credit: AP/Czarek Sokolowski)
August 22, 2012, 12:45 am
Israeli archaeologist, seeking truth about his family, digs into Nazi death camp
Yoram Haimi has been able to remap Sobibor, where two of his uncles died; ash concentration led him to raise the estimate of number of people killed there
By Aron Heller
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