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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 621

Vanessa Gera

Holocaust survivor Marian Turski addresses guests at the Auschwitz-Birkenau former Nazi German concentration and extermination camp, during a ceremony marking the 80th anniversary of its liberation, in Oswiecim, Poland, Monday, Jan. 27. 2025. (AP/Czarek Sokolowski)
February 18, 2025, 11:45 pm
Marian Turski, Holocaust survivor who warned against creeping hate, dies at 98
Historian, journalist and co-founder of Polish Jewish museum used Remembrance Day speech last month to caution against indifference, warning it could lead to ‘another Auschwitz’
By Vanessa Gera
Forensics work on a damaged car sitting with its doors open after a driver plowed into a busy Christmas market in Magdeburg, Germany, Dec. 21, 2024. (Hendrik Schmidt/dpa via AP)
December 21, 2024, 2:17 pm
Death toll in German Christmas market attack reaches 5, with at least 200 wounded
Nearly 40 seriously injured; experts surprised by profile of alleged Saudi attacker who supports far-right, anti-immigrant Alternative for Germany party; Riyadh condemns ramming
By Kirsten Grieshaber, SARA ABOUBAKR and Vanessa Gera
An illustrative photo of electric fences with concrete posts and insulators surrounding the barracks where deportees where held at the Auschwitz concentration and death camp established by the Nazis. (Jack Guez/AFP)
October 30, 2024, 8:59 pm
New memorials honor hundreds of Jews murdered at little-known Nazi labor camp in Poland
Relatives of Holocaust survivors joined by Israeli and US envoys to mark unveiling of site at Adampol, where Jews were used as slave labor and massacred
By Vanessa Gera
Tourists visit the ruins of Adolf Hitler's headquarters the 'Wolf's Lair' in Gierloz, northeastern Poland, July 17 2004. (AP Photo/ Czarek Sokolowski, File)
May 6, 2024, 10:03 pm
Poland ends probe into bones found at former Hitler HQ due to lack of evidence
Polish prosecutors say the level of decay makes it impossible to determine whether a crime occurred in the deaths of the four bodies at Wolf’s Lair
By Vanessa Gera
Friends and residents gather to place candles and flowers in honor of Damian Soból, a Polish food aid worker who was killed with six other World Central Kitchen workers by an Israeli airstrike in Gaza this week, in Soból's hometown of Przemysl, in southeastern Poland, April 4, 2024. (AP Photo)
April 6, 2024, 12:40 am
Poland summons Israeli envoy to protest aid worker’s death in Gaza strike
Deputy Polish FM says Yacov Livne ‘apologized for this unprecedented event in the history of the civilized world,’ calls for local prosecutor to take part in Israeli investigation
By Vanessa Gera
British soldiers pay tribute to Allied prisoners of war who tunneled out of a German POW camp during World War II on the 80th anniversary of the escape, in Zagan, Poland, Sunday March 24, 2024. (AP Photo/Jan Mazur)
March 24, 2024, 7:32 pm
Poland marks 80th anniversary of ‘Great Escape’ from Nazi POW camp
76 soldiers captured by the Nazis managed to tunnel out of the prison — but all but 3 were recaptured, and 50 were executed
By Vanessa Gera
Railway tracks lead to the Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland (photo credit: Serge Attal/Flash90)
January 5, 2024, 4:22 pm
Poland probes TV commentators’ call to send migrants to Auschwitz, tattoo their arms
Several companies pull advertising from right-wing private channel TV Republika after guest says immigrants can be housed in the barracks of former death and concentration camps
By Vanessa Gera
Polish director Agnieszka Holland poses with the 'Special Jury Prize' award for 'Zielona Granica' after the closing ceremony for the 80th edition of the Venice Film Festival in Venice, Italy, Sept. 9, 2023. (Gian Mattia D'Alberto/LaPresse via AP)
September 23, 2023, 8:36 am
Polish ministers compare migration drama to Nazi propaganda, denounce director
Agnieszka Holland, whose family members were killed in Holocaust, threatens to sue justice minister and says campaign reminds her of Communist regime’s antisemitism
By Vanessa Gera
File: Protesters shout slogans as they gather in front of the Presidential Palace to show President Andrzej Duda their disapproval after he signed controversial legislation on the Supreme Court into law, in Warsaw, Poland, July 26, 2018. (AP Photo/Alik Keplicz)
June 4, 2023, 11:32 am
Tens of thousands set to march in Poland against law they say harms democracy
Demonstration may be largest since end of communism; opposition says law setting up probe on Russian influence will be used to exclude them from political scene
By Vanessa Gera
The entrance to the Nazi death camp Auschwitz-Birkenau with the lettering 'Arbeit macht frei' ('Work makes you free'). (Joel Saget/AFP)
May 31, 2023, 5:38 pm
Auschwitz museum slams use of death camp in Polish ruling party’s political ad
State-run memorial attacks ‘instrumentalization of tragedy’ by Law and Justice party, which used theme of Nazi camp to discourage participation in upcoming anti-government march
By Vanessa Gera
Elzbieta Cajzer, head of the museum's collections department, shows a collection of shoes that belonged to child victims of the former Nazi death camp Auschwitz-Birkenau at the conservation laboratory on its grounds, Oswiecim, Poland, May 10, 2023. (AP Photo/Michal Dyjuk)
May 15, 2023, 11:24 am
Auschwitz museum begins heartrending work preserving 8,000 shoes of murdered children
In two-year effort, museum processing 100 shoes a week while other evidence, such as hair shaved from victims, turns to dust as the years pass since Holocaust
By Vanessa Gera
Albert Stankowski, left, the director of the Warsaw Ghetto Museum, Anna Stupnicka-Bando, center, a Polish Christian honored for saving Jews, and Waclaw Kornblum, right, a Polish Holocaust survivor, attend a ceremony for the burial of a 'time capsule' on the grounds of the museum in Warsaw, Poland, on April 18, 2023. (Czarek Sokolowski/AP)
April 19, 2023, 12:23 pm
Warsaw Ghetto Uprising remembered 80 years on, with Herzog to attend
With no surviving fighters still alive, responsibility for preserving Holocaust memory is passing from witnesses to younger generations
By Vanessa Gera
US Second Gentleman, Douglas Emhoff, visits the Oskar Schindler Enamel Factory Museum in Krakow, Poland, January 28, 2023. (AP Photo/Michal Dyjuk)
January 28, 2023, 8:13 pm
Doug Emhoff says ‘solemn’ visit to Auschwitz key to antisemitism fight
Touring camp on 78th anniversary of its liberation, husband of US vice president decries ‘epidemic of hate’ against Jewish people
By Vanessa Gera
People walk next to the 'Arbeit Macht Frei' (Work Sets You Free) gate at the former Nazi German concentration and extermination camp Auschwitz-Birkenau in Oswiecim, Poland, January 26, 2023 (AP Photo/Michal Dyjuk)
January 27, 2023, 4:37 pm
Auschwitz liberation marked without Russia, as European peace again shattered by war
None of Putin’s officials invited to annual event on International Holocaust Remembrance Day, as Moscow’s war on Ukraine continues
By Vanessa Gera
Poland's President Andrzej Duda, left, and the country's chief rabbi, Michael Schudrich, right, light a candle during a Hanukkah ceremony at the presidential palace in Warsaw, Poland, December 19, 2022. (AP Photo/Michal Dyjuk)
December 19, 2022, 11:46 pm
At Hanukkah reception, Polish president thanks Jews for aiding Ukrainian refugees
Andrzej Duda notes that country’s Jewish community has been active in organizing housing, food, education and other services for Ukrainian Jews and non-Jews alike
By Vanessa Gera
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