ToI’s weekly deep dive: 75 years post-Holocaust, so many stories still to tell * As peace breaks out, Mr. Gantz goes to Washington * Dershowitz: Trump’s reluctant hero

[Visit timesofisrael.com for 24/7 updates]( The Weekend Edition Sunday, January 26, 2020 Interview [Director awed by added dimension of humanity to Auschwitz photos from colorizing]( By [Robert Philpot]( [Two-part documentary ‘Auschwitz Untold in Color’ to air in UK and US with unprecedented touched-up death camp images; shows Jewish resistance, cultural genocide, murder of Romani]( Inside story [Uncovered, Polish Jews’ pre-Holocaust plea to Chamberlain: Let us into Palestine]( By [Steven E. Zipperstein]( [In March 1939, weeks before the notorious White Paper, Polish Jewry sent London a desperate telegram, published here apparently for the first time. At terrible cost, it was ignored]( [Documentary confronts cost of Pope Pius XII’s ‘Holy Silence’ during Holocaust]( By [Renee Ghert-Zand]( [Pinchas Goldschmidt]( [Lithuania wants to erase its Holocaust role. That’s deplorable]( Holocaust Remembrance Day [This must never happen again, says Saudi cleric as Muslim group tours Auschwitz]( By [Yaakov Schwartz]( [Unprecedented visit by Muslim World League head Mohammed al-Issa and group of Islamic clerics with American Jewish Committee shows interfaith efforts working, participants say]( [Times of Israel Podcasts / LISTEN: New AJC survey finds rising anti-Semitism in France is mainstream worry]( By [TOI staff]( [Most Americans know what Holocaust was; don’t know 6 million Jews were killed]( By [Joshua Davidovich]( [100 European legislators visit Auschwitz, urged to be tougher on anti-Semitism]( By [Yaakov Schwartz]( Exclusive [Director of Auschwitz Museum slams holding of World Holocaust Forum in Jerusalem]( By [Raphael Ahren]( [Piotr Cywinski accuses organizers of trying to replace annual ceremony in Poland]( [Interview / World War II was caused by hatred of Jews, preeminent Holocaust scholar says]( By [Raphael Ahren]( [Irwin Cotler]( [The ‘Never Again’ Declaration: A model for remembrance and action]( Op-ed [David Horovitz]( [Among dozens of world leaders in Jerusalem, Putin proves the dominant presence]( [Speaking at two ceremonies, making headlines for days in the lead-up to Holocaust Forum, president sets out Russia’s WWII and Shoah narrative, exudes authority, boosts Netanyahu]( [Photo essay / From Anastasiades to Zelensky: Rivlin hosts Israel’s largest diplomatic influx]( By [TOI staff]( [US evangelical leader announces he’ll give ‘Friends of Zion’ award to Putin]( By [Simona Weinglass]( [Exclusive / A serious man: Zelensky bids to address Ukraine’s dark past, brighten its future]( By [David Horovitz]( Eastern Europe [Polish post-punk band rages against populism, hatred, and Holocaust denial]( By [Renee Ghert-Zand]( [Trupa Trupa vocalist and songwriter Grzegorz Kwiatkowski speaks truth to power through punk poetry]( [Displaced by a brutal war, Ukraine’s Jews start life anew]( By [Sam Sokol]( Analysis [David Horovitz]( [Securing a small, sweet victory, Mr. Gantz goes to Washington]( [He didn’t want to snub the president. But neither did he want to be an extra at the Trump-Netanyahu show. With the administration’s aid, the Blue and White leader found a third way]( [Trump’s plan isn’t about peace between Israelis and Palestinians]( By [Jacob Magid]( [Analysis / Who needs the deal of the century right now? Only two people]( By [Avi Issacharoff]( Interview [As impeachment trial starts, Alan Dershowitz sees self as Trump’s reluctant hero]( By [Eric Cortellessa]( [Media-friendly attorney says he didn’t want to take the case and won’t represent the president — just the constitution — but he still thinks he can ‘kick the winning field goal’]( [Jason Rubenstein]( [The Talmud’s take on the Senate impeachment trial]( ToI Podcast [LISTEN: Israeli tech brings clean water and electricity to African villages]( By [Sue Surkes]( [Innovation Africa, whose Israeli-made solar panels power schools, clinics and water pumps in 10 African countries, has changed the lives of 1.7 million people]( [Sinaia Netanyahu]( [Israel knows what to do about flooding. It’s not doing it.]( StartUp Israel [Israeli defense firm Elbit debuts system for firefighting from high altitude]( By [Luke Tress]( [‘HyDrop’ technology allows for aerial sorties at night, works with cargo planes and helicopters and is safer for pilots, company says]( [Israel slips to sixth place in annual Bloomberg Innovation Index]( By [Luke Tress]( [Groundbreaking Israeli microbe research scoops up €4 million in grants]( By [Sue Surkes]( [Microsoft to open first cloud data center in Israel]( By [Luke Tress]( Necessary stories [Heavens]( By [Haim Watzman]( [Haim Watzman’s new Necessary Story ponders love, heartbreak and the night sky as a team of IDF reserve soldiers deals with a romantic crisis in the West Bank]( [On Martin Luther King Jr. Day, dreams of a better conversation about race]( By [Melanie Lidman]( [CRM]( Archaeology [Illiterate Israelites? Hi-tech review of ancient sherds suggests few scribes]( By [Amanda Borschel-Dan]( [Multi-disciplinary Tel Aviv University study uses new image processing and computer learning techniques to reexamine large cache of paleo-Hebrew ostraca from 8th century BCE]( [Israel travels / Golgotha to the Six Day War: Stroll through time on a newly opened Old City wall]( By [Aviva and Shmuel Bar-Am]( [Archaeology / X marks the spot on 1,500-year-old burial slab found by 7th-grader near Caesarea]( By [Amanda Borschel-Dan]( From the blogs [Reading my last book with my children]( By [Todd Berman]( [Unsubscribe from this List]( © 2020 THE TIMES OF ISRAEL, All Rights Reserved