Holocaust

Israel assumes presidency of IHRA, marking 80 years since end of Holocaust

Israel's presidency term will last one year, until February 2026, and will be chaired by Dani Dayan - the current Yad Vashem chairman.

  Screenshot of Jonathan Glazer's proxy about to read his letter at the 2025 César Awards, February

Jonathan Glazer repeats claims Holocaust used to justify Gaza 'massacres'

Glazer was not in France to accept the award for best foreign film, but a proxy read a message to the audience asserting that the Holocaust film's subject of dehumanization was "alarmingly" relevant.

'After Images': The tragedy of Albert Einstein’s cousin Robert

The cold-blooded execution of Robert Einstein’s family at the Focardo estate near Florence on August 3, 1944, reached beyond the areas generally depicted in Holocaust literature.

  Gravestones under restoration at Warsaw's largest Jewish cemetery, September 2024.

Archaeology students excavating Warsaw’s main Jewish cemetery are uncovering a forgotten world

In the last few years, a new form of life has come to the cemetery. Young people stand in between the gravestones, chattering, laughing, and digging with shovels.

By SHIRA LI BARTOV/JTA
27/02/2025

An antisemites guide to selling Jew-hatred to the masses

Antisemitism is an amorphous, intangible, and extremely malleable force that not only permeates its way into virtually every significant movement and political zeitgeist.

By WILLEM HART
27/02/2025

Auschwitz Museum confiscates hostage flags claiming its a 'political statement'

National flags are permitted at the site, the museum claimed, but not ones which have seen any alterations or slogans added.

  Rose Girone

World's oldest Holocaust survivor, Rose Girone, passed away at age 113

Polish-born Rose managed to get visas for her and her husband to escape Germany to Shanghai in 1939, later settling in Queens, New York.

New documentary commemorates 'Shoah' for 40th anniversary

“I do not hesitate to say that Shoah was the greatest event in the history of our festival, the Forum of the Berlinale, maybe also the greatest event of the Berlinale itself.”

Prosecutors: Syrian refugee arrested for Berlin attack planned to 'kill Jews'

The 30-year-old Spanish tourist underwent emergency surgery after sustaining injuries to his neck and was placed in an induced coma,

By REUTERS
21/02/2025

Khrushchev and the Jews: The attitude of Stalin's successor to Soviet Jewry

Between Stalin’s shadow and the Cold War, the Soviet leader both perpetuated and decried Soviet antisemitism.

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