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Sep 6, 2026, 1:34 PM

Preventive Restitution: A New Frontier in International Law

I want to share with The Times of Israel readers a scholarly article that I have co-authored with Dr. Dmytro Hrebeniuk, Associate Professor at the National University “Odesa Law Academy,” where I am currently pursuing my PhD in international...

Hephzibah Rudofsky

Sep 6, 2026, 1:06 PM

‘I hope that next year we will be in better circumstances’

A Rosh Hashanah card made by 8-year-old Zahava Kanarek in the Westerbork transit camp, 1943 (Courtesy of the author)

The Rosh Hashanah card my mother made in a Nazi transit camp is a simple object filled with hope – and unanswered questions

Sep 6, 2026, 9:40 AM

My grandparents at their wedding - June 20,1946

“Why didn’t grandma give me the “heirloom” that she spoke about?” asked my son, Yoav. “It’s a long story”, I answered. My son, Yoav married his bashert, Danielle on June 7, 2026. My mother, her husband and my uncle (my mother’s brother)...

Sep 6, 2026, 9:37 AM

The Judenplatz: Vienna Waits for You

There is a Vienna seen and celebrated, where tourists line up for a sense of majesty and the nostalgia of empire. They pass through the splendid halls of Schönbrunn Palace, beneath the chandeliers of the Opera House, and through...

Eliyahu V. Sapir

Sep 5, 2026, 5:42 PM

The face and the voice

TL;DR: Europe knows what to do with a Jewish face in a photograph: name it, mourn it, preserve it, learn from it. A Jewish voice is harder. It can disagree with the lesson, demand protection in the present, and...

Grant Arthur Gochin

Sep 4, 2026, 7:25 PM

A Ponzi Scheme of Historical Authority

LGGRTC nominated its own acting Director General, supplied his biographical case, and then circulated PEMC-labeled praise without disclosing that the nomination came from LGGRTC itself. On September 3, I published Did PEMC Check the History?. I asked who had nominated...

Sep 4, 2026, 7:16 PM

Memory Is Not a Vaccine Against Antisemitism

For the past few days, a sentence has been circulating in my inbox: If we want Holocaust education to fight antisemitism today, we must invest in teachers. I have read it several times. And each time, I find myself stopping...

Alexandre Gilbert

Sep 4, 2026, 6:32 PM

US Senate Presses UBS for More Details on Nazi-Linked Credit Suisse Accounts

UBS Building, New York City (Wikipedia CY BB 4.0)

UBS is facing renewed pressure from the United States Senate over Credit Suisse’s historical handling of accounts linked to Nazi Germany (Bloomberg), after the Senate Judiciary Committee demanded answers to dozens of additional questions and accused the Swiss lender...

Eugene J. Levin

Sep 3, 2026, 10:28 PM

PEMC May Reward the Method It Exists to Oppose

PEMC praises a nominee for preserving historical truth. The state institution he led for a full five-year term has repeatedly moved non-exonerating records toward exonerating conclusions. I do not use "Soviet" as an insult. I was born in Riga under...

Kelsey Maurine Brickl

Sep 3, 2026, 10:16 PM

The Logical Fallacies That Erase Inconvenient Holocaust Prisoners

There is a document in the Swedish archives dated June 28, 1945. It records an interrogation of my husband’s grandfather, Alois Simonič, conducted only weeks after his liberation from the Nazi concentration camp system. He was thirty-one years old. Alois...

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