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Amanda Friedeman takes a question from a student directed to Holocaust survivor Adina Sella, as she is displayed as a three-dimensional hologram at the Take A Stand Center in the Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center on October 26, 2017, in Skokie, Illinois. (Joshua Lott/AFP)
January 10, 2020, 5:20 pm
The ‘virtual’ future of Holocaust education is already here
From recreating the Nuremberg Trials to a virtual reality ‘walk-through’ of Auschwitz-Birkenau, new gaming technology is replacing face-to-face encounters with Holocaust survivors
By Matt Lebovic
Dutch ‘Holocaust Namenmonument’ chairman Jacques Grishaver at the brick factory Rodruza, where bricks are being made for the emerging memorial in Amsterdam (Marcel Molle/Dutch Auschwitz Committee)
December 4, 2019, 4:30 pm
Dutch Holocaust ‘Names’ memorial finally puts emphasis on victims not victors
Realizing a concept 70 years in the making, Amsterdam structure to be one of Europe’s largest to honor Jewish victims individually, with a brick for each of 100,000 lost
By Matt Lebovic
Magnus Hirschfeld in New York City, early 1930s (public domain)
November 11, 2019, 1:16 am
100 years ago, Germany’s ‘Einstein of Sex’ began the gay rights movement
Although he never became a household name like Freud, sexologist Magnus Hirschfeld fought to decriminalize homosexuality and improve LGBTQ healthcare
By Matt Lebovic
President Franklin D. Roosevelt delivers a 'fireside chat' from the White House. (public domain)
November 4, 2019, 4:52 pm
Historian: New evidence shows FDR’s bigotry derailed many Holocaust rescue plans
In his book about Franklin Roosevelt and the Holocaust, Rafael Medoff finds links between the US president’s anti-Japanese stances and his policies against Jews fleeing Hitler
By Matt Lebovic
Assortment of swag -- stuff we all get (Matt Lebovic/The Times of Israel)
November 1, 2019, 4:43 am
The US firm looking to slash the environmental cost of that supposedly free swag
A storied Massachusetts printing company pushes ‘sustainable’ promotional material — the Stuff We All Get on the conference circuit — helping nonprofit causes in the process
By 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
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