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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 473

Verena Dobnik

Holocaust survivor Leon Kaner, age 94, shows his tattoo number as he stands beside a vintage German train car, like those used to transport people to Auschwitz and other death camps, outside the Museum of Jewish Heritage, in New York on March 31, 2019. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)
March 31, 2019, 11:46 pm
German train car arrives in New York for Auschwitz exhibit
Windowless boxcar among 700 Holocaust artifacts, most never before seen in US, being prepared for one of the largest exhibits ever on the death camp
By Verena Dobnik
In this photo from May 3, 2018, Afghan residents light candles to pay tribute to Afghan journalists killed three days earlier in a suicide attack in Kabul, Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul, File)
December 19, 2018, 9:43 am
53 journalists killed worldwide so far in 2018
Committee to Protect Journalists says number of reporters killed in retaliation for their work nearly doubled from 2017
By Verena Dobnik
In this photo provided by Chris Lee, Juilliard student Nathan Meltzer, center, poses with the "Ames, Totenberg" Stradivari of 1734 violin loaned to him by the daughters of the late violinist Roman Totenberg, October 9, 2018 in New York. (Chris Lee via AP)
October 10, 2018, 10:57 am
Stolen Stradivarius violin found after decades comes to life again
Daughters of former owner put 18th-century instrument on long-term loan to 18-year-old Nathan Meltzer, a student of Itzhak Perlman
By Verena Dobnik
Tourists take photos at "The Garment Worker," a bronze sculpture of a garment worker wearing a yarmulke by Judith Weller at the edge of New York's Garment District, August 1, 2018. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)
August 6, 2018, 10:30 pm
Sewing change: Manhattan’s garment district is shrinking, but not dead yet
City Hall is working to preserve a remnant of the once predominantly Jewish-run manufacturing area; workers here now speak Spanish, Arabic, Chinese and Korean… and Yiddish
By Verena Dobnik
A man inspects rubble after a Saudi-led coalition airstrike in Sanaa, Yemen, February 4, 2018. (Hani Mohammed/AP)
June 28, 2018, 9:08 am
UN: 10,000 children killed, maimed in conflicts worldwide in 2017
Global body says attacks by Saudi Arabia and UAE responsible for half of the 1,300 child deaths or injuries in Yemen
By Verena Dobnik
Illustrative: This May 22, 2018, file photo shows Palestinians waiting to cross the Gaza-Egypt border to the Egyptian side at the Rafah crossing. (AP Photo/Adel Hana, File)
June 26, 2018, 7:49 am
UN seeks new funding pledges for Palestinian refugee agency
US aid cut comes to some $300 million amid Washington’s call for reforms, putting UNRWA’s Gaza programs in jeopardy, agency chief Pierre Krahenbuhl says
By Verena Dobnik
Thousands of people attend the Women's March in New York City on January 20, 2018. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images/AFP)
January 20, 2018, 9:57 pm
One year on, women worldwide protest Trump presidency
Coming on heels of #MeToo protests, female opponents of US president hold demonstrations against his policies, sexual harassment
By Verena Dobnik and Tamara Lush
Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus R. Vance discusses the repatriation of three ancient sculptures during a news conference in New York. The sculptures, from left, the "Calf Bearer,' the 'Bull's Head,' and the 'Torso,' are being returned to their rightful owners in Lebanon as Vance forms a new antiquities trafficking unit, on December 15, 2017. (AP Photo/Andres Kudacki)
December 17, 2017, 11:55 pm
Prosecutors become treasure hunters in antiquities repatriation campaign
Manhattan district attorney forms anti-trafficking unit to repatriate works owned by dealers and collectors
By Colleen Long and Verena Dobnik
Original negatives, the first photos of Adolf Eichmann in Argentina in 1960, and the Leica 35mm camera that was used, are displayed in the "Operation Finale: The Capture & Trial of Adolf Eichmann" exhibit at the Museum of Jewish Heritage, in New York, Friday, July 14, 2017. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)
July 15, 2017, 4:13 am
New York museum recreates scene of Eichmann’s Jerusalem trial
Bulletproof-glass booth where Nazi war criminal sat facing justice half a century ago is part of a new multimedia exhibit
By Verena Dobnik
Protesters rally during a demonstration against the Muslim immigration ban at John F. Kennedy International Airport on January 28, 2017 in New York City. (Stephanie Keith/Getty Images/AFP)
February 4, 2017, 10:50 am
Iranian baby will be allowed into US for life-saving surgery
The family had an appointment in Dubai to get a tourist visa, but it was canceled when Trump announced his entry ban on 7 Muslim countries
By Verena Dobnik
Visitors make their way through the Flight 93 National Memorial before lit candles are carried to the Wall of Names in memory of the passengers and crew of Flight 93, at the Flight 93 National Memorial in Shanksville, Pennsylvania, Saturday, Sept. 10, 2016, as the nation marks the 15th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks. (AP Photo/Jared Wickerham)
September 12, 2016, 5:16 am
White House campaign casts a shadow over 9/11 anniversary
Bitter presidential contest takes center stage even as survivors and relatives try to remember those lost in the attacks
By Jennifer Peltz and Verena Dobnik
Jean Nebbia, center, a schoolteacher from Oakland, NJ, talks with visitors to the Sept. 11 memorial site, Thursday Aug. 11, 2016, in New York. Nebbia serves as a volunteer tour guide, organized by the private nonprofit 9/11 Tribute Center, to tell tours about her brother Steven Schlag, a partner at Cantor Fitzgerald, who was killed in the Sept. 11 attacks on the World Trade Center. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)
September 10, 2016, 12:54 am
They lived through 9/11, now they relive it for tourists
Volunteer tour guides lend personal touch to retelling horrors of September 2001 attacks on World Trade Center
By Verena Dobnik
Men pray outside of the Al-Furqan Jame Masjid mosque where Imam Maulama Akonjee and his assistant, Thara Uddin, 64, were killed in a shooting on August 13 in the Queens borough of New York on August 15, 2016 in New York City. Spencer Platt/Getty Images/AFP)
August 21, 2016, 1:18 am
After NY imam shooting, tensions between immigrant groups remain in past
As police struggle to parse motive in double slaying of Bangladeshi cleric and friend by Hispanic janitor suspect, neighbors say old ethnic rift in storied Queens neighborhood won’t make comeback
By Verena Dobnik
This December 18, 1986, file photo shows Nobel Peace prize winner and writer Elie Wiesel standing in front of a photo of himself (bottom 3rd from R) and other inmates, taken at the Buchenwald concentration camp in 1945, during his visit to the Holocaust Memorial Center Yad Vashem in Jerusalem. (AFP/ SVEN NACKSTRAND)
July 3, 2016, 12:32 am
Elie Wiesel, the survivor who endured, educated, was never silent, never gave up
The helpless teenager who lost his parents and a sister in the Holocaust became a one-man reminder of the imperative to confront evil, defending everyone from Soviet Jews, to Cambodian refugees, to victims of African famine
By Verena Dobnik
A group carries photos of victims of the Orlando nightclub shooting during the 2016 San Francisco Pride Parade on June 26, 2016 in San Francisco, California. ( Justin Sullivan/Getty Images/AFP)
June 27, 2016, 2:57 am
US parades celebrate gay pride, honor Orlando shooting victims
Thousands attend marches across country, still reeling from nightclub attack that killed 49 people this month
By Verena Dobnik and Jennifer Peltz
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