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![]() Matt LebovicThe Times of Israel |
Some residents of the Polish capital’s Muranów district are kept up at night by echoes of violins playing and children’s laughter. Radios are...
NEW YORK — While watching the 2018 Grammy Awards, musician Joanie Leeds noted a terrible paucity of female performers and awardees. By the end of...
Going to school in Kyiv, Ukraine, Sergei Loznitsa often wondered about what took place at Babyn Yar, or “Grandmother’s Ravine.” He was ignorant...
For a group of 40 seamstresses imprisoned at Auschwitz, the ability to create high-end fashion meant the difference between life and death. Amid...
Lost in the fracas about beloved children’s author Dr. Seuss’s racially offensive books is that the iconic writer and illustrator launched his...
Most people assume that Poland’s destroyed Jewish burial grounds were desecrated by the Nazis. An expert on Jewish cemeteries in Poland, however,...
Best known for successfully defending herself against Holocaust denier David Irving, so far this year Prof. Deborah Lipstadt has taken to mainstream...
At the gallows on October 16, 1946, the hanging of “Der Stürmer” publisher Julius Streicher did not go as planned. Allegedly, the hangman...
Eighty years ago, the Netherlands became the first and only Nazi-occupied country to organize a nation-wide strike to protest the persecution of its...
At the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2009, historian Wendy Lower was shown a disturbing image of a Jewish mother and child being executed...
LONG ISLAND, New York — After William “Bill” Levitt fought alongside Black soldiers as a Navy lieutenant in World War II, he returned home to...
When historians seek to research what Dutch citizens did during Nazi Germany’s occupation of the Netherlands, they have access to a stack of files...
When they parted ways in 1939, two Jewish girls from Berlin promised to keep in touch. One family fled to Chile, while the other made its way to the...
As countries around the world observe International Holocaust Remembrance Day on Wednesday, online events will replace large gatherings at the Jewish...
PARIS, France — Three Muslim groups refused on Wednesday to back an anti-extremism charter pushed by French officials following a spate of...
BERLIN — The Austrian government on Thursday presented a national strategy on fighting rising anti-Semitism that includes improving the protection...
Reversing plans to build one central museum at the site of the Holocaust’s largest open-air massacre, the Babyn Yar Holocaust Memorial Center...
Historian Lothrop Stoddard helped found ‘Nordic’ movement to battle ‘the rising tide of color’ in US and abroad, but was...
In the popular Netflix series “The Queen’s Gambit,” budding chess prodigy Beth Harmon is sent to an orphanage located in 1960s Kentucky. The...
For decades, Iran’s government has denied the Holocaust took place while threatening to annihilate the state of Israel. Now, acclaimed expat...
After more than a decade of planning and construction, a new museum was recently inaugurated at Sobibor, the former German Nazi death camp in Poland. ...
HUNTINGTON, New York — Social clubs in New Jersey rejected Otto Hermann Kahn from membership for being Jewish in the early 1900s. So the financier...
As social media platforms take steps to block Holocaust denial, an interdisciplinary project is harnessing artificial intelligence (AI) in the battle...
In time for the pandemic’s first Hanukkah, a children’s book about Anne Frank zooms in on resilience and optimism during tumultuous times. “I...
During Nazi Germany’s air assault on Russia, Galina Makeeva survived more than 100,000 firebombs dropped on Moscow by the Luftwaffe. In an...
The German “aktion” at Babyn Yar was the largest open-air massacre during the so-called “Holocaust by Bullets,” but the precise location of...