Holocaust

Anne Frank’s friend tells how a German official saved her family

Anne Frank’s childhood friend tells the story of the German official who saved her family.

Krispy Kreme owner donates millions to atone for Nazi past

Reimann family announces donation to Holocaust survivors after investigation finds their Nazi ancestors used slave labor during WWII.

German activist group sorry for using Holocaust victims’ ashes

Center for Political Beauty apologizes after using soil samples from locations of Nazi mass murder of Jews in protest installation.

Buenos Aires rededicates Holocaust Museum

Holocaust Museum of Buenos Aires rededicated following $4.5 million overhaul.

Revealed:

Bergen-Belsen rabbinical ledger will not be sold

Close to 85 rulings permitting Holocaust survivors to remarry provides first-hand record of destruction of European Jewry during Holocaust.

Chicago university drops faculty member over Holocaust question

National Louis University removes faculty member over marketing assignment which included question on whether Holocaust happened.

Bill aims to restore rights of Holocaust-era beneficiaries

House bill would help Holocaust survivors and families recover billions in insurance payments.

Environmentalists trivialize the Holocaust

New play confronts Lithuanian complicity during Holocaust

Lithuanian state theater stages controversial play on Holocaust complicity.

World leaders to mark Auschwitz liberation by visiting Jerusalem

Dozens of world leaders will visit Jerusalem to mark 75th anniversary of Auschwitz liberation.

Polish Minister "There are no good nations or bad nations"

Arutz Sheva speaks with Polish Minister of Agriculture in wake of tensions between Israel and Poland regarding Holocaust history

Mass grave of Nazi victims discovered on Treblinka grounds

Bones of victims, clothing remnants and bullet shells from pistols and machine guns were found in the grave.

In first, imam to attend Holocaust commemoration event in Sweden

Malmo imam confirms attendance at Kirstallnacht Holocaust commemoration event.

Survivor meets rescuer: 'They saved our lives'

Holocaust survivors from Israel reunite with their wartime from Greece.

Watch: Rescuer meets survivors she helped save

Righteous among the Nations meets Jewish siblings she saved during the Holocaust and their 40 descendants.

The picture of the Belzer Rebbe sent to the Nazi

A postcard of the Belzer Rebbe taken during WWII and sent to a Nazi was recently revealed.

Netflix series highlights death-camp guard John Demjanjuk trial

Netflix to release latest show about Nazi death camp worker accused of being one of the worst, most merciless offenders of Holocaust.

Lithuania’s Holocaust record ‘open wound,’ Israeli envoy says

At genocide seminar for teachers, Israeli envoy tells history teachers in Vilnius that country's Holocaust record is an ‘open wound.’

Ex-Nazi guard: I saw Jews being led to the gas chambers

Bruno Dey, 93, says: 'I heard screams and bangs on the door. I didn't know they were being gassed.'

Maryland increases Holocaust education requirements

Maryland will strengthen requirements for Holocaust education in schools, state officials say.

"Anti-Semitic graffiti" at NY Holocaust memorial

Material and graffiti described as hateful and anti-Semitic discovered at Holocaust memorial in White Plains, NY on the eve of Yom Kippur.

October in Holocaust History

"Yad Vashem" presents a view of the main events that took place during the month of October in Holocaust history.

Rosh Hashanah Rescue 1943

Restoring hope for Holocaust survivors

They’ve seen humanity at its worst; Meir Panim helps them experience it at its best

Remembering the forgotten

Meir Panim’s High Holiday campaign hopes to restore dignity to the many Holocaust survivors living in poverty.

Cousins separated during Holocaust reunited 75 years later

Emma Phippen's grandfather dropped a bombshell on his family 11 years ago when he told them he's a Jewish Holocaust survivor.

Ukraine chief rabbi denies honoring alleged Nazi collaborators

Ukraine's Rabbi Bleich says he only attended ceremony for Jewish Holocaust victims.

Jewish Foundation for the Righteous honors Poles who saved Jews

US Jewish foundation honors Polish non-Jews who rescued Jews during the Holocaust at an event in Warsaw.

Berendina Eman, rescuer of Jews during Holocaust, dies at 99

Dutch-American woman who helped save dozens of Jews during the Holocaust and survived a concentration camp passes away at her Michigan home.

Prosecutor: Anti-Semitic inscription 'not public hate speech'

Polish prosecutor closes case of anti-Semitic graffiti on demolished workshop.

Far-right surge rattles guardians of Nazi era remembrance

'Comments culminated in visitors questioning existence of gas chambers and mass murders in them,' Sachsenhausen director says.

Anti-Semitic shirt on sale on Amazon

Shirts bearing iconic photographs of the Holocaust of a man being shot to death while perched over a mass grave are sold on Amazon UK.

Education Min.: Nazis also persecuted North African Jews

Persecution of North African Jewry under Nazi occupation now part of Israeli schools’ mandatory curriculum.

London Mayor: 'Approve National Holocaust Memorial'

Sadiq Khan calls on the Westminister borough council to approve Holocaust memorial after thousands object.

'Fixing historical injustice'

Holocaust of North African Jews in matriculation examination

Holocaust of North Africa Jews under Nazi occupation will be mandatory chapter in matriculation history exam.

"A terrible headache" - the Holocaust as seen by the New York Times

Woman who saved Jewish family from Holocaust dies at 102

Krystyna Danko, a Polish woman who saved her adoptive Jewish family from Holocaust dies at 102.

The Holocaust survivor's moving birthday request

To celebrate 104th birthday, Shoshana Ovitz asks her descendants to convene for prayer at Kotel. "Mengele took her mother before her eyes."

Fort Ontario - Where the Holocaust came to America

New House bill would help care for Holocaust survivors

With 1/3 of Holocaust survivors in the US living at or below poverty line, bipartisan bill would increase federal support for survivors.

'On Animals & People': The heroism of the Warsaw Zoo directors

A new documentary about the Polish couple who hid Jews in their home at the Warsaw Zoo under the Nazis' nose will be released soon.

Disgraced German historian found dead at 31

German historian blogger Marie Sophie Hingst found dead 1 month after being stripped of award for faking family history in the Holocaust

Senate legislation would help care for Holocaust survivors

Bipartisan bill introduced in Senate to prioritize health, nutrition services for Holocaust survivors so they can live in their own homes.

Holocaust compensation to cost Germany $420 million

Germany to compensate 8,000 Israel Holocaust survivors from Romania.

Rabbi Peretz clarifies: 'Didn't intend to harm any Diaspora Jew'

Official letter to Jewish Agency Chairman to be forwarded to Jewish community leadership worldwide, Peretz makes statement on assimilation.

Media assault on Rabbi Peretz

Reform, Conservative senior Leftists furious at Education Minister who said assimilation among world Jewry is 'second Holocaust'.

July 1938: The evil Evian Conference on the Jews

Beloved 'Hoosier' Holocaust survivor Eva Kor dies at 85

Kor, a survivor of Dr. Mengele's inhumane experiments,, who preached forgiveness even to the Nazis, dies while leading trip to Auschwitz.

Argentina turns over Nazi documents to Holocaust museum

Argentina’s national parliament gives Holocaust Museum of Buenos Aires historic documents from investigation of Nazi influence.

Neo-Nazis disrupt exhibition of Holocaust survivors’ portraits

Neo-Nazis in Sweden block entrance to an exhibition of portraits of Holocaust survivors, intimidate visitors already viewing the display.

Human remains found near Jewish mass grave in Romania

Archaeologists unearth more human remains near site of Romanian mass grave for Jews killed during World War II.

Holocaust survivor: AOC deserves a Nobel Prize - in stupidity

Survivor who invited AOC to tour concentration camps calls for her removal from Congress. 'She's spreading anti-Semitism and stupidity.'

Dutch railway company to pay compensation to Holocaust victims

Dutch national rail company says it will pay tens of millions of Euros to survivors, families of victims taken to death camps on its trains.

Holocaust survivor who helped convict Eichmann passes away

Michael Maor, who worked for the Mossad to obtain documents that formed factual basis for Adolf Eichmann trial, passes away at 86.

Ocasio-Cortez: 'Far-right manipulates these moments for gain'

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez declines invitation to tour Auschwitz with Holocaust survivor.

'Holocaust education should be mandatory for congressmen'

Holocaust survivor Edward Mosberg invites Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez to tour Auschwitz with him.

AOC’s latest howler

Jewish groups hit Ocasio-Cortez for appropriating 'Never Again'

Congresswoman tries to justify using Never Again slogan and accusing US of running concentration camps. Jewish groups aren't buying it.

Rabbis slam AOC for American concentration camps claim

Coalition of Orthodox rabbis castigate congresswoman who compared detention centers for illegal immigrants to Nazi concentration camps

Ocasio-Cortez under fire for remark on concentration camps

New York Congresswoman says US operating "concentration camps" on its southern border.