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Germany’s biggest Jewish educational, cultural center since Holocaust opens in Berlin
By Kirsten Grieshaber
Pears Jewish Campus will host 550 students in Chabad schools, along with movie theater, music studio, library, kosher deli and huge indoor basketball court and gym
People walk through the Tiergarten Park, in Berlin, Germany, where a new memorial commemorating Jehovah's Witness victims of the Nazis is set to be built, February 25, 2021. (STEFANIE LOOS/AFP)
June 23, 2023, 11:49 am
German MPs back memorial for Jehovah’s Witnesses persecuted and killed by Nazis
Parliament calls on government to build monument in Berlin’s Tiergarten Park; foundation running existing sites says 1,700 followers of religion died under Third Reich
By AP
Rabbi Yehuda Teichtal poses on the balcony of the curved building of the new Jewish educational and cultural complex in Berlin, Germany, June 12, 2023. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)
June 23, 2023, 11:14 am
Germany’s biggest Jewish educational, cultural center since Holocaust opens in Berlin
Pears Jewish Campus will host 550 students in Chabad schools, along with movie theater, music studio, library, kosher deli and huge indoor basketball court and gym
By Kirsten Grieshaber
This undated image, provided by the Lenbachhaus Museum in Munich, Germany, shows the 1907 painting 'The Colorful Life' by Russian artist Kandinsky. (Lenbachhaus Museum via AP)
June 14, 2023, 9:40 am
German commission backs restoring painting owned by Bavarian bank to Jewish heirs
Kandinsky’s ‘The Colorful Life’ was loaned by Lewenstein family to Stedelijk Museum, but put up for auction shortly after Nazi occupation of Netherlands
By Kirsten Grieshaber
The Toronto Holocaust Museum is located at the United Jewish Appeal (UJA) Federation of Greater Toronto's Sherman Campus. (Courtesy/Toronto Holocaust Museum via JTA)
June 13, 2023, 11:26 pm
Toronto’s first Holocaust museum opens, looks to post-survivor era
Museum aims to educate the young, eschews graphic imagery and presents newly-unveiled personal artifacts
By Shira Li Bartov
Matthias Weniger, curator of the Bavarian National Museum, lifts one of 111 silver objects, stolen by the Nazis from Jews during the Third Reich, in Munich, Germany, June 10, 2023. (AP Photo/Matthias Schrader)
June 13, 2023, 2:57 pm
Applying stolen silver sleuth skills, German curator returns Nazi-looted heirlooms
Matthias Weniger has made it his mission to give back silver objects that ‘are often the only material things that remain from an existence wiped out in the Holocaust’
By Kirsten Grieshaber
Pope Pius XII appears behind microphones during a radio broadcast from the Vatican in November 1947. The Pope commended the American people for their efforts to save food for war-torn Europe. (AP Photo/Luigi Felici)
June 11, 2023, 4:26 pm
Pope Pius XII was no saint. The Vatican shouldn’t make him one.
The head of the Catholic Church during the Holocaust maintained good ties with Hitler rather than speak up as Jews were murdered
By Abraham H. Foxman and Ben Cohen
Poland's Deputy Foreign Minister Pawel Jablonski in Tel Aviv, June 6, 2023 (Lazar Berman/The Times of Israel)
June 9, 2023, 10:53 am
Polish official says don’t compare WWII suffering of Poles, Jews: ‘All were victims’
Poland’s deputy FM Pawel Jablonski, visiting Israel as the two countries look to mend ties, says his compatriots are wrongly painted as perpetrators
By Lazar Berman
Polish Deputy Foreign Minister Pawel Jablonski in Warsaw, Poland, September 8, 2020. (Czarek Sokolowski/AP)
June 6, 2023, 4:44 pm
Polish government delegation visits Israel after contentious deal on youth trips
Deputy foreign minister meets Israeli officials to discuss bilateral cooperation and ‘stopping Russian aggression,’ as sides look to mend ties damaged by row over Holocaust history
By ToI Staff
File: Then-deputy prime minister of Bulgaria, Rumiana Bachvarova, right, speaks with the media prior to a meeting of EU justice and interior ministers at the EU Council building in Brussels on Monday, September 14, 2015. (AP/Geert Vanden Wijngaert)
June 3, 2023, 4:37 am
Bulgaria’s ambassador to Israel condemned for skipping Holocaust history conference
Organizers say envoy’s decision to forgo event indicative of her government’s attempts to whitewash history on WWII round-up of 11,000 Jews in what is today North Macedonia
By Toby Axelrod
US singer Montana Tucker arrives for the premiere of 'The Mother' at the Westwood Regency Village Theater in Los Angeles, California, on May 10, 2023. (Michael Tran/AFP)
June 3, 2023, 3:36 am
TikTok star Montana Tucker to emcee DC embassy event for Israel’s 75th anniversary
US influencer builds reputation for Jewish content following documentary series on family trip to Auschwitz for her millions of social media followers
By Gabe Friedman
Polish-Canadian historian Jan Grabowski stands at the podium for a planned lecture as far-right lawmaker Grzegorz Braun of Poland’s Confederation party grabs the microphone and smashes it, at the German Historical Institute in Warsaw, Poland, May 30, 2023. (Courtesy of Jan Grabowski via JTA)
June 2, 2023, 1:19 am
Lecture on Holocaust in Poland canceled after far-right lawmaker storms podium
Politician, protesters disrupt speech in Warsaw by historian Jan Grabowski, a vocal critic of Poland’s efforts to constrain Holocaust discussion
By Asaf Elia-Shalev
Germany created the Warsaw ghetto to imprison and starve more than 400,000 Jews during World War II. (Public domain)
May 31, 2023, 4:56 am
Jewish doctors’ secret study of Warsaw ghetto starvation rediscovered 80 years later
Tufts professor sheds light on smuggled medical research conducted by imprisoned Jewish physicians on what they label ‘hunger disease’; 100 patients enrolled in the study
By Matt Lebovic
Justine Triet, winner of the Palme d'Or for 'Anatomy of a Fall,' poses for photographers during a photo call following the awards ceremony at the 76th international film festival, Cannes, southern France, May 27, 2023. (AP Photo/Daniel Cole)
May 28, 2023, 4:04 am
‘Anatomy of a Fall’ wins top prize at Cannes as chilling Auschwitz film is runner-up
With tense courtroom drama, Justine Triet becomes just 3rd woman to be victorious at festival; Jonathan Glazer’s ‘The Zone of Interest’ takes second prize
By AFP and ToI Staff
Singer Noa Kirel poses at a press conference in Tel Aviv on August 10, 2022, announcing her participation in the 2023 Eurovision Song Contest. (Avshalom Sassoni/FLASH90)
May 26, 2023, 8:17 am
Poland says Noa Kirel accepted invitation to visit amid row over Holocaust remarks
Pop star had caused outcry in country, calling points she received from Poland at Eurovision song competition a ‘victory’ given that members of her family perished there in WWII
By ToI Staff
This September 27, 2012, file picture shows an exterior view of Adolf Hitler's birth house, front, in Braunau am Inn, Austria. (AP Photo / Kerstin Joensson, File)
May 25, 2023, 1:15 pm
Hitler’s birth site to become human rights training center for Austrian police
Interior Ministry says facility will be part of plan to open police station at Braunau am Inn estate, aiming to counter its ‘mythical appeal to extremist circles’
By ToI Staff and AFP
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