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Almanya Narula, Nyani Totty and Sheer Aviram in the West Coast production of playwright Wendy Kout's 'Survivors,' May 2023 (Photo: Katherine Kohl)
June 3, 2023, 6:03 am
Inspired by ‘Hamilton,’ diverse docudrama based on survivor testimony is touring US
In under an hour, ‘Survivors’ touches on Nazi racial laws, Kristallnacht, and the Kindertransport rescue. ‘The survivors in the play are warning us,’ says playwright Wendy Kout
By Matt Lebovic
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
At Auschwitz, Holocaust survivors prepare for the March of the Living, April 18, 2023. (Canaan Lidor/Times of Israel)
April 18, 2023, 4:08 pm
At Auschwitz March of the Living, displays of Jewish unity in a sea of Israeli flags
During the 35th annual 3-kilometer march at the former extermination camp, sorrow, shock but also pride and gratitude are exhibited by 9,000 participants from all over the world
By Canaan Lidor
Warsaw Ghetto set ablaze by the SS following the prisoner uprising in April 1943 (Z. L. Grzywaczewski / from the family archive of Maciej Grzywaczewski, POLIN Museum)
April 17, 2023, 4:06 am
Yad Vashem marks 80 years since Warsaw Ghetto Uprising for Yom HaShoah remembrance
The legendary Warsaw revolt and other acts of Jewish resistance — both physical and spiritual — are focus of this year’s Yom HaShoah commemoration at Yad Vashem
By Matt Lebovic
David “Saba” Wisnia in a scene from 'How Saba Kept Singing.' (Retro Report via JTA)
April 15, 2023, 5:15 pm
Clinton-produced ‘How Saba Kept Singing’ tells story of cantor’s Auschwitz survival
PBS documentary, to air on Yom Hashoah, recounts how David Wisnia stayed alive for three years at notorious death camp by entertaining Nazi guards with operatic voice
By Gabe Friedman
A man looks to a painting '4900 Colours (excerpt)' in a new exhibition with art works of German artist Gerhard Richter at the New National Gallery in Berlin, Germany, Friday, March 31, 2023. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)
March 31, 2023, 7:09 pm
Berlin museum displays works by artist who grapples with Germany’s Nazi past
Basis of Gerhard Richter paintings are 4 abstract photos secretly taken in 1944 by Jewish prisoners at Auschwitz-Birkenau extermination camp, who risked their lives doing so
By Kirsten Grieshaber
Holocaust survivor Naki Bega at her daughter's home in Athens, Greece, on March 14, 2023. (Louisa GOULIAMAKI/AFP)
March 15, 2023, 5:49 pm
Long ignored, Greek Holocaust survivors finally tell their story
Naki Bega, one of less than a dozen survivors remaining in south European country, survived Auschwitz and 22-day death march; Greece marks 80th anniversary of first deportation
By Yannick Pasquet
Illustrative photo of a memorial to the Holocaust at the Jewish cemetery in Thessaloniki, Greece (photo credit: Arie Darzi/Wikimedia Commons/File)
March 2, 2023, 9:48 am
80 years on, Greek film festival will pay tribute to deported Jews
Thessaloniki’s documentary movie event to recall once-thriving large community sent to Auschwitz with several screenings about Holocaust, panel discussions
By Elise Morton
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
Investigators examine bodies of Ukrainian military prisoners at a prison in Olenivka, in an area controlled by Russian-backed separatist forces, eastern Ukraine, on July 29, 2022. (AP Photo)
January 28, 2023, 8:52 am
On Holocaust Remembrance Day, Poland’s PM accuses Putin of building ‘new camps’
Morawiecki does not elaborate on accusation, but comments echo claim made by Ukraine’s Zelensky last year about Olenivka ‘concentration camp’
By AFP
Russian President Vladimir Putin chairs a meeting with the cabinet via a video link at the Novo-Ogaryovo state residence outside Moscow on January 24, 2023 (Mikhail Klimentyev / SPUTNIK / AFP)
January 27, 2023, 4:42 pm
Putin blasts ‘neo-Nazis’ in Ukraine on Holocaust Remembrance Day
Russian leader says ‘forgetting the lessons of history leads to the repetition of terrible tragedies’ as he continues to compare war against Hitler with current conflict
By AFP
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
FILE - Doug Emhoff, the husband of US Vice President Kamala Harris, speaks during a roundtable discussion with Jewish leaders about the rise in antisemitism and efforts to fight hate in the United States, at the White House Campus in Washington, December 7, 2022. (Patrick Semansky/AP)
January 12, 2023, 3:18 pm
Doug Emhoff to visit Poland and Germany to combat rise in global antisemitism
Jewish husband of US Vice President Harris will mark International Holocaust Remembrance Day, visit Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp, meet European special envoys in Berlin
By Zeke Miller
A Polish-French Jew, David Olère, painted Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp scenes after surviving the horrors there, including this self-portrait (Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum)
November 27, 2022, 11:31 am
Myths about Auschwitz Jewish ‘Sonderkommando,’ failed rebellion busted in new study
Book from Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum is Polish historian Igor Bartosik’s ‘promise kept’ to survivor Henryk Mandelbaum, who was forced to work in gas chambers and crematoria
By Matt Lebovic
Twin sisters Miriam and Eva Mozes Kor in 1949 (courtesy)
October 26, 2022, 4:55 am
Gap in children’s Holocaust literature filled by memoir of former ‘Mengele twin’
Before her death, survivor Eva Mozes Kor partnered with author Danica Davidson on book, ‘I Will Protect You,’ aiming to contextualize antisemitism – and forgiveness – for kids
By Matt Lebovic
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