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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 561

Matt Lebovic

Matt Lebovic

Reporter at The Times of Israel
Pages from Eduard Pernkopf's 'Atlas of Topographical & Applied Human Anatomy' (used in accordance with clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
February 28, 2025, 1:25 am
‘Go-to’ anatomy atlas featuring corpses of Nazi victims revamped by UCLA cardiologist
Inspired by his Jewish teachers, Indian-born physician Kalyanam Shivkumar wants Nazi-made anatomy atlas to become obsolete. But not everyone agrees ‘Pernkopf Atlas’ should be tossed
By Matt Lebovic
From the trials of Adolf Eichmann, which will be examined in 'Eichmann -- The Devil Speaks,' the first series produced by Tadmor Entertainment and MGM (Courtesy GPO)
February 24, 2025, 1:50 am
Argentine president opening files on Nazi ‘ratlines’ that trafficked Eichmann, Mengele
Up to 10,000 Nazi war criminals fled Europe using these escape routes. Javier Milei pledges to declassify files related to how his country settled 5,000 of them
By Matt Lebovic
Survivors attend the offical ceremony at the former German Nazi death camp Auschwitz-Birkenau during events to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the camp's liberation in Oswiecim, Poland, on January 27, 2020 (Wojtek RADWANSKI / AFP)
January 23, 2025, 4:46 am
A decade ago, 300 survivors marked their liberation at Auschwitz. This year, 50 will go
3,000 people expected to attend ceremony on Jan. 27 as international delegations mark 80 years since largest German death camp was liberated by Red Army during World War II
By Matt Lebovic
People visit the Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz-Birkenau in Oswiecim, Poland, on February 15, 2019. (AP Photo/Michael Sohn, File)
January 13, 2025, 5:00 am
80 Auschwitz survivors film life lessons to mark 80 years since liberation
Created by The Claims Conference, new series of video testimonies from Auschwitz survivors aims to help young people ‘listen to their voices and carry their stories forward’
By Matt Lebovic
Illustrative: Josephine Mairzadeh uses a microphone to pose a question to a virtual presentation of Holocaust survivor Eva Schloss featured in a testimonial interactive installation called "New Dimensions in Testimony" at the Museum of Jewish Heritage, in New York, September 15, 2017. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)
January 10, 2025, 5:48 pm
Resurrection or distortion? How AI can preserve – or annihilate – Holocaust history
As UNESCO issues warning on potential for AI to change the historical record, author Todd Presner probes ethical concerns behind ongoing merging of AI tech with humanities research
By Matt Lebovic
Inset from 'Chaim Weizmann: A Biography,' published in May 2024. (courtesy)
November 27, 2024, 8:10 am
Israel’s 1st president disdained European Jews, ‘but he was ready to die for them’
Two historians co-author intimate portrait of fallible leader, born exactly 150 years ago, with new details on Chaim Weizmann’s struggles after losing his RAF pilot son in WWII
By Matt Lebovic
Israelis from Gaza-area communities welcomed in New York on Nov. 10, 2024, for 'Thanks4Giving' mega-mission of Project 24, an Israeli NGO founded in aftermath of Oct. 7 attacks (Mid Island JCC)
November 12, 2024, 9:21 pm
Seeking deeper ties, group brings Gaza-area security squads into American homes
‘Project 24’ initiative says thanks by flying 185 members of emergency teams and their families to Jewish communities in New York area and south Florida for some R&R and more
By Matt Lebovic
H. Keith Melton points to a key on an Enigma Machine with four rotors and a some Japanese characters that was used in World War II to encode messages, September 13, 2017, in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
November 10, 2024, 8:30 am
‘Holocaust Codes’ pits British codebreaker against SS leader in battle for secrecy
Author Christian Jennings delivers jarring account of Allied codebreaker who deciphered Holocaust’s evolution from open-air massacres to purpose-built death camps
By Matt Lebovic
Russian dissident Pavel Kushnir died in a hunger strike in July 2024. (YouTube capture)
November 4, 2024, 8:14 am
Jewish pianist was first political prisoner in modern Russia to die in hunger strike
For posting anti-Putin videos on YouTube, Pavel Kushnir was imprisoned in Siberia. He died of starvation in protest of the war in Ukraine while awaiting trial; 11 people came to his funeral
By Matt Lebovic
Father Patrick Desbois visits site of Hamas massacre at Kibbutz Be'eri for the one-year commemoration of the October 7, 2023, attacks, October 2024 (B'nai B'rith International)
October 26, 2024, 4:17 am
Pioneering genocide researcher Father Desbois denounces mass murder charges against Israel
French-Catholic priest behind ‘Holocaust by Bullets’ investigations visits Gaza border communities, decries anti-Israel ‘propaganda’ and pushes for trials for Hamas terrorists
By Matt Lebovic
Historian Igor Bartosik at the former Union factory adjacent to Auschwitz, from which female prisoners smuggled revolt supplies to Sonderkommando prisoners living atop Birkenau gas chambers, August 2024 (Matt Lebovic/The Times of Israel)
October 8, 2024, 10:41 am
80 years ago on Oct. 7, Jewish Sonderkommando workers staged a failed revolt at Auschwitz
Decades before the Hamas atrocities, inmates took up arms against their Nazi tormentors. It didn’t succeed, but the revolt was singular, unprecedented, and facilitated by women
By Matt Lebovic
Destroyed houses from the October 7, 2023, Hamas attack on southern Israel, in Kibbutz Kfar Aza, September 19, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
October 7, 2024, 1:31 am
After reaching Israel days after Oct. 7, USC Shoah Foundation is now helping record it
The organization’s researchers gathered hundreds of witness testimonies after the massacre and is sharing them with Israel’s National Library while advising on forming a collection
By Matt Lebovic
Illustrative: Two men hold up a banner and signs along Market Street during a tech workers protest against Google and Amazon for their contracts with the Israeli government in San Francisco, September 8, 2022. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg)
September 10, 2024, 4:54 am
Why did Amazon blacklist – and then permit – two books based on Oct. 7 testimonies?
Citing ‘violation of company guidelines,’ online seller blocked 2 titles about the Hamas atrocities from sale this summer; company spokesperson denies anti-Israel bias at play
By Matt Lebovic
Free food pantry at JCC Krakow for Ukrainian refugees in 2022. (Courtesy)
September 8, 2024, 5:35 pm
With a world weary of war, donations dry up for Ukrainian refugees at JCC Krakow
Jewish Community Center in city adjacent to Auschwitz raised $12m for Ukrainian refugees since 2022. But as money runs out, the new residents may lose yet another port in their storm
By Matt Lebovic
Researchers prepare to scan a mass grave at Ponar, outside Vilnius, Lithuania. (Ezra Wolfinger, NOVA)
September 4, 2024, 9:30 am
New research uncovers how Lithuania’s largest Holocaust massacre was mostly forgotten
Chris Heath’s ‘No Road Leading Back’ pieces together the Ponar massacre in detective-like fashion, including a daring escape of 40 prisoners through a secret tunnel in 1944
By Matt Lebovic
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