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Matt Lebovic
Hana Dubova (left) around 1942 and Rachael Cerrotti in Denmark, 2017 (courtesy)
September 29, 2019, 7:14 pm
Journalist traces grandmother’s Holocaust rescue from Nazis in unique podcast
Survivor testimony forms basis of a new series from the USC Shoah Foundation, as Boston-based Rachael Cerrotti follows the path of her grandmother’s flight from Hitler’s genocide
By Matt Lebovic
Times of Israel reporter Matt Lebovic at Auschwitz-Birkenau holding a version of 'The Auschwitz Album' image in which his grandmother, Bella (Baila) Solomon, appears, October 2017 (Elan Kawesch/The Times of Israel)
September 13, 2019, 2:21 pm
How I found my Bubby in ‘The Auschwitz Album’
75 years ago this summer, an SS photographer at Auschwitz-Birkenau created one of the Holocaust’s most important but poorly understood primary sources
By Matt Lebovic
Next to the New England Holocaust Memorial in Boston, Massachusetts, protesters gather against a 'Straight Pride' march held earlier in the day, August 31, 2019 (Matt Lebovic/The Times of Israel)
September 1, 2019, 10:44 am
At Boston’s ‘Straight Pride,’ Jews are on both sides of police barricades
Activists for and against controversial ‘Straight Pride’ march face off near the New England Holocaust Memorial
By Matt Lebovic
Oskar Schindler helped prepare the false-flag attack at the Gleiwitz radio tower prior to Germany's invasion of Poland on September 1, 1939 (public domain)
August 30, 2019, 12:00 am
80 years ago, how a very different Schindler’s ‘list’ helped ignite WWII
Controlling up to two dozen German spies, Oskar Schindler helped stage the false-flag ‘Gleiwitz Incident’ to justify Germany’s invasion of Poland
By Matt Lebovic
President John Adams as painted by John Trumbull, circa 1792 (public domain)
August 27, 2019, 12:56 pm
200 years ago, John Adams promoted a Jewish state in the Holy Land
Second president’s support of Jewish ‘restoration’ to Land of Israel flowed from Enlightenment ideals, say historians. Trump’s ‘Christian Zionism’ speaks to his voter base
By Matt Lebovic
Scene from a Nazi documentary filmed in the Theresienstadt ghetto during the summer of 1944 (United States Holocaust Memorial Museum)
August 5, 2019, 11:51 pm
74 years since liberation, a visit to Theresienstadt finds an eerie ghost town
Unique in the Nazi empire, Theresienstadt was both a way-station to Auschwitz for Jews and a well-planned show camp to deceive diplomats about the Holocaust
By Matt Lebovic
A lesbian couple hold hands during the Tel Aviv Gay Pride parade on June 3, 2016 (David Silverman/Getty Images via JTA, File)
July 18, 2019, 4:52 pm
In the US, gay conversion therapy continues in some Orthodox communities
Although many jurisdictions have banned the controversial ‘cure,’ some Jewish practitioners of the discredited ‘science’ are still operating clandestinely
By Matt Lebovic
Child's record player given to neighbor of Otto Frank on the occasion of Anne Frank's birth in Frankfurt, Germany, on display at New York City's Museum of Jewish Heritage through December 2019 (Musealia/Iciar Palacios)
July 18, 2019, 2:25 am
In first, massive traveling exhibit brings Anne Frank artifacts to North America
Part of the seven-month ‘Auschwitz’ exhibition at New York City’s Jewish Heritage Museum, the items evoke the Holocaust icon’s childhood and two years in hiding
By Matt Lebovic
Illustrative image: Marc Mezvinsky and Chelsea Clinton combined Jewish and Methodist traditions during their wedding ceremony on July 31, 2010. (Genevieve de Manio, via JTA)
July 12, 2019, 3:46 pm
When American Jews described their own intermarriage as a ‘Second Holocaust’
Nearly 30 years ago, reports of a 52% interfaith household rate had some US Jewish leaders denouncing ‘assimilation’ as silently completing Hitler’s work
By Matt Lebovic
Plan rendering for memorial park at the site of the former Great Synagogue of Oswiecim, Poland, set to open on November 28, 2019 (courtesy: Auschwitz Jewish Center)
July 4, 2019, 4:01 am
Memorial for 400-year-old Jewish community to be built in town next to Auschwitz
Few visitors to Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp pass through Poland’s Oswiecim. That might change as sites tied to the city’s Jewish past are preserved, restored, and digitized
By Matt Lebovic
'Dear Kitty' and 'Anne Frank: The Collected Works,' both published in 2019
June 11, 2019, 9:12 pm
For Anne Frank’s 90th birthday, ‘dueling’ versions of her diary published
Although her last journal entry was penned 75 years ago, the young writer and her works are still being reinterpreted to craft her literary legacy
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)
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
Illustrative: In this photo from August 11, 2017, multiple white nationalist groups march with torches through the University of Virginia campus in Charlottesville, Virginia. (Mykal McEldowney/The Indianapolis Star via AP)
May 3, 2019, 4:28 pm
‘Siren call’ of a Fourth Reich is spreading, warns Nazi Germany expert
‘Counterfactual’ historian Gavriel Rosenfeld’s new book takes on old-new fears of the Reich’s revival in our time
By Matt Lebovic
Anne Frank, aged 12, at her school desk in Amsterdam, 1941. (public domain)
May 1, 2019, 8:56 am
‘My aunt might have betrayed Anne Frank,’ writes son of Secret Annex helper
Writer Joop van Wijk has spent years piecing together his mysterious Aunt Nelly’s wartime activities, cutting through lies that concealed her Nazi collaborator past
By Matt Lebovic
American historian and author Deborah Lipstadt poses for photographer at the Rome Film festival in Rome, October 17, 2016. (Gregorio Borgia/AP)
March 16, 2019, 2:34 am
Lipstadt: Jews need factual ‘ammunition’ to combat anti-Semitism
On the heels of her book, ‘Antisemitism: Here and Now,’ Deborah Lipstadt urges Jews not to panic about the resurgence of Jew-hatred in the US, but to arm themselves with knowledge
By Matt Lebovic
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