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Sobibor
In conversation with Sobibor survivor Philip Bialowitz
May 19, 2023, 11:59 am
OPINION: I owe it to Philip and the six million to redouble my efforts
Writes Paul Giannasi, trustee at the Holocaust Memorial Trust, reflects on the reasons behind his visit this week to Auschwitz and the Polish town of Tarnów.
By Paul Giannasi
November 9, 2021, 2:33 pm
Doctor ‘astonished’ after seeing aunt’s name in JN Shoah memorial article
Dr Joachim Frank spotted the name of his relative Betty Frank, who was murdered in Sobibor aged 25, in an article from last week's edition of Jewish News
By Jenni Frazer
January 26, 2021, 1:42 pm
Remember Lea, Deddie, Annie and David – children’s ID tags found at Sobibor
Harrowing details of four youngsters aged between six and 12 reduces archaeologists to tears during excavation of infamous site in Poland.
By Jenni Frazer
‘The Avengers’ return to Vilna at the liberation of the city by the Red Army, July 1944
September 2, 2020, 3:10 pm
Exhibition unveils unknown resistance heroes during the Shoah
Fascinating accounts of Jewish resistance in the Holocaust, including by many women, are on display at the Wiener Library
By Stephen Oryszczuk
Tiffany Boone, Logan Lerman, Al Pacino, Jerrika Hinton and Greg Austin attend the Exclusive Screening of Amazon Prime Video’s Hunters at the Curzon Soho ahead of its release on Prime Video on Friday 21st February.
February 26, 2020, 11:12 am
The real story behind ‘Hunters,’ Al Pacino’s new Nazi-hunting Amazon series
While series has garnered mixed reviews and raised questions about the ethics of violent revenge, the lingering question of whether there were that many Nazis in America remains
By Lior Zaltzman (JTA)
John Demjanjuk hearing his death sentence. Demjanjuk Trial Jerusalem (Wikipedia/USHMM Photograph #65266, courtesy of Israel Government Press Office)
January 21, 2020, 3:44 pm
Photos surface of convicted Nazi war criminal John Demjanjuk at Sobibor
Recently discovered images come from estate of a deputy commandant at the camp, Johann Niemann, who was killed during the 1943 uprising
By JTA
Jonny Daniels outside the Polish prosecutor's office handing in files - urging the government to ban David Irving from entering the country.
March 25, 2019, 2:10 pm
Files submitted to Polish prosecutor’s office urging ban on David Irving
Activist Jonny Daniels hands papers to court and says a 'clear and strong message' has been sent that the Holocaust denier's planned tour is 'entirely unacceptable'
By Jewish News Reporter
Convicted Holocaust denier and pseudo historian David Irving
March 24, 2019, 9:40 am
Poland set to ban Holocaust denier David Irving ahead of Nazi camp tour
Warsaw likely to deny entry to disgraced historian citing legislation about denying the Shoah, ahead of proposed tour of camps including Treblinka, Sobibór and Majdanek
By Jewish News Reporter
David Irving (Wikipedia/Allan warren)
March 20, 2019, 7:06 am
Israel urges Poland to ban Holocaust denier David Irving ahead of Nazi camp tour
Exclusive: Minister Naftali Bennett calls on authorities to deny entry to disgraced historian, who is set to lead tour to camps including Treblinka, Sobibór, Belzec and Majdanek
By Jewish News Reporter
David Irving
March 18, 2019, 12:03 pm
Holocaust denier David Irving set to lead tour of Nazi camps
Disgraced and discredited historian will reportedly take group to Nazi camps including Treblinka, Sobibór, Belzec and Majdanek
By Jewish News Reporter
"Selection" of Hungarian Jews on the ramp at the death camp Auschwitz-II (Birkenau) in Poland during German occupation. Source: Wikimedia Commons. Author: :Auschwitz Album from Yad Vashem)
January 3, 2019, 3:47 pm
Study reveals the Nazis murdered 1.47 million Jews in 100 days during 1942
Up to 15,000 Jews a day were killed during 'hyper-intense killing' period as part of the Germans’ genocide programme
By Joe Millis
Memorial at the site of Sobibór extermination camp
May 4, 2018, 7:18 pm
Putin invites descendants of Sobibor rebellion to mark Nazi defeat
Russian leader asks 12 people related to seven rebels to Moscow to celebrate the demise of the Fascist German regime
By JTA
Sobibor
January 29, 2018, 4:18 pm
One of the final survivors of Sobibor passes away at 96
Arkady Waispapir dies in Ukraine according to Berlin-based Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe
By Jewish News Reporter
The railway tracks at Auschwitz-Birkenau, located in modern day Poland.
January 24, 2018, 4:49 pm
A land of tragedy – and revival
Jack Mendel gets in touch with his Jewish roots on an emotional visit to Poland
By Jack Mendel
Memorial at the site of Sobibór extermination camp
January 15, 2018, 10:31 am
Sobibor Uprising hero Arkady Wajspapir dies at 96
Russian Jewish groups pay tribute to the 'courage' of the former Soviet Jewish soldier who fought back against the Nazis
By JTA
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