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Zeitz became a crime scene on the one-year anniversary of the October 7 attack, when all 10 of its Stolpersteine honoring local Jewish victims of the Holocaust were stolen. Authorities drew a blank on finding the guilty party, and residents took the matter of replacing the stones into their own hands, as far-right and neo-Nazi groups are gaining ground in east Germany

  When we reflect on the heroes of the Holocaust, names like Oskar Schindler, the German businessman who rescued over 1,200 Jews, often come to mind. However, another remarkable figure emerged during this dark chapter in history: Abdol Hossein Sardari, an Iranian diplomat who risked everything to save Jews from Nazi persecution. His story is […]

'Questioning the Holocaust has become normalized in mainstream public discourse,' says the director of the Landecker Digital Memory Lab, that launched a London project targeting Holocaust denial on the internet

Media personality Ben Shapiro injected the events of October 7 into a musical on the Holocaust he wrote before the massacre. The result perfectly suits the message that Shapiro is trying to convey: The Jews will always live by the sword

As a child survivor of the Holocaust, the ever present 'racism and antisemitism tormented him and fueled his strength to awaken minds,' French President Emmanuel Macron said in a statement

Reviewing: On Duty: The Polish Blue and Criminal Police in the Holocaust; Living among the Dead; Irena’s Gift; and Holocaust Heroines.

'They just threw these people into camps, and millions of people ended up dead there': Holocaust revisionism was on show during a conversation between Tucker Carlson and historian Darryl Cooper, shared on X by both Carlson and Musk

“PTSD symptoms may have been dormant for many years for many Holocaust survivors, but it got triggered as a result of what is happening both in Israel and in America,” psychologist Eva Fogelman said.

  In an exclusive interview with Israel Hayom, Pennsylvania State Representative Mark Gillen shared that he is pushing forward with plans to build a Holocaust museum in Berks County in the face of growing antisemitism. The Republican lawmaker, who recently visited Israel, is determined to create an educational center despite facing threats and opposition. Gillen, who has […]

The controversial media personality has made previous antisemitic comments, and has criticized Zionism and the Holocaust.

Morawiecki's statements on the Holocaust, particularly his 2018 remarks suggesting multiple nationalities, including Jews, were perpetrators, sparked significant backlash.

The vandalism involved the phrase “Genocide in Gaza” being written over a photograph of a child Holocaust survivor.

Letters written in Hebrew in the 1930s by Jewish-Polish schoolchildren to their beloved teacher, who had left for Palestine, were discovered decades later and are featured in a new book. The youngsters had their heart set on joining the teacher in the Land of Israel – but most were murdered in the Holocaust

"Here we are, not 75 years later, but just seven and a half months later - and people are already forgetting that Hamas unleashed this terror," Biden said in his keynote at the official Holocaust memorial ceremony at the U.S. Capitol

  In the solemn halls of the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), an annual ritual meant to honor the victims of the Holocaust was conspicuously absent this year. The school's traditional Holocaust Day ceremony, typically held at the iconic Powell Library plaza, was abruptly canceled amid escalating tensions and fears of unrest on campus. […]

In the shadow of the October 7 Hamas attack and atrocities in Israel and in Gaza, with the number of living Holocaust survivors ever dwindling, our work as memory-keepers is just beginning

  A new exhibition displaying the personal items of children murdered in the Holocaust opened Sunday at the Supreme Court. The installation, named "Yellow Patch," serves as a heartbreaking memorial to the young lives tragically cut short during the Nazi genocide. The exhibits on display were retained from the Theresienstadt Ghetto in former Czechoslovakia. Established by […]

  Yad Vashem, the World Holocaust Remembrance Center in Jerusalem, is harnessing the power of artificial intelligence to identify and record the names of Holocaust victims previously lost in the vast archives of World War II documentation. The renowned memorial and museum houses a staggering 230 million pages of text documents and over 500,000 photographs […]

Organized by the nonprofit Hate Ends Now, the traveling exhibit included a 20 minute immersive presentation alongside a rare collection of original Holocaust artifacts.

  Q: You've served as director of the Hall of Names at Yad Vashem – the world Holocaust remembrance center – for nearly 30 years. You told me before, that the preoccupation with names and the stories of the victims in the Pages of Testimony collection fascinates you. On a deeper level, what does this […]