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Notorious Nazi physician Josef Mengele as a young doctor, left, and the 'ramp' at Auschwitz-Birkenau in May of 1944, where Mengele sometimes selected inmates for life, death or 'experimentation.' (Public domain)
May 16, 2026, 11:40 am
Sealed files on Nazi ‘Angel of Death’ Mengele to be opened, Swiss intel agency says
Josef Mengele, who fled to Argentina, was never prosecuted for sadistic Auschwitz experiments despite possibly visiting Zurich after West Germany issued arrest warrant against him
By ToI Staff
Daniela Gerson is the author of 'The Wanderers.' (Kait Lavo via JTA)
May 16, 2026, 4:09 am
Author tracing family’s Holocaust survival finds partner’s ancestors took same path
Daniela Gerson says that like her grandparents, most of the 300,000 Polish Jews who lived through the war were not in camps, ghettos or forests, but in the mountains of Siberia
By Shira Li Bartov
Pallbearers escort the casket at the funeral of former ADL chief Abraham Foxman at Park Avenue Synagogue in Manhattan, New York, on May 12, 2026. (JTA)
May 13, 2026, 1:31 pm
Abraham Foxman laid to rest, in elegy for last generation of Holocaust survivors
Former ADL chief, who was hidden as a child in Poland by his Catholic nanny, said his life’s work combatting antisemitism was a duty to the children who perished, grandson recalls
By Andrew Silow-Carroll
Holocaust survivor Albrecht Weinberg poses at his home in Leer, Germany, on December 30, 2024. (FOCKE STRANGMANN / AFP)
May 12, 2026, 9:26 pm
Albrecht Weinberg, who survived several camps during Holocaust, dies at 101
Weinberg returned to Germany 14 years ago after living in New York, shared his experience with high school students; Israeli envoy to Germany pays tribute to ‘bridge’ with the past
By AP
This handout photograph taken in an undisclosed area and released by Arthur Brand on May 11, 2026, shows the painting 'Portrait of a Young Girl' by Dutch artist Toon Kelder, an art piece stolen from the world-famous Goudstikker collection by the Nazis, discovered in the house of the descendants of a notorious Dutch SS collaborator (Handout and Arthur BRAND / AFP)
May 11, 2026, 11:19 am
Art looted from Jewish collector hanging in home of Dutch SS leader’s family, sleuth says
Discovery made when descendant of Nazi collaborator revealed ‘Portrait of a Young Girl’ by Toon Kelder was displayed in relative’s hallway; theft has passed statute of limitations
By Richard Carter
Relatives pose for a photograph holding a Holocaust plaque in German reading "Johanna Berger, born in 1893, lived here; deported on Nov. 17, 1941, murdered on Nov. 25, 1941 in Kowno/Kaunas Fort IX," prior to the placing of the so called "Stolperstein," in front of her former home in Berlin, Germany, May 6, 2026. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)
May 7, 2026, 1:23 pm
As new Holocaust memorial stone laid in Berlin, relative says plaque serves as substitute for grave
Project initiator Gunter Demnig places ‘stumbling block’ for Nazi victim Johanna Berger; great-nephew says memorial ‘brings the family history to a certain conclusion’
By AP
A container installed near the site of the Jedwabne pogrom proclaims in Polish, "The earth doesn't lie." The container, installed in April 2026, promotes the narrative that Nazis, not Poles, killed the Jews of Jedwabne in 1941. (Screenshot via JTA)
April 18, 2026, 4:58 am
Polish town’s new ‘information center’ denies murders of Jews by local Poles in 1941
Family of Jewish man who survived the Jedwabne massacre is trying to get the new installation removed: ‘We call it a denial museum, because that’s what it is’
By Shira Li Bartov
Jewish food writer Joan Nathan (center left) and researcher Moriah Amit learned about the Holocaust histories of Nathan's relatives, Wolfgang Bernheim (far left) and his grandmother, Marie Bernheim. (Images courtesy Center for Jewish History via JTA)
April 16, 2026, 4:19 pm
Joan Nathan knew her Catholic relative died in the Holocaust. A new project added detail
The renowned Jewish cookbook author’s family history is uncovered in Histories and Mysteries, an initiative of the Ackman and Ziff Family Genealogy Institute in Manhattan
By Jackie Hajdenberg
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks at the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial Museum in Jerusalem, as Israel marks the annual Holocaust Remembrance Day. April 23, 2025. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
April 15, 2026, 4:53 pm
Netanyahu claims to have prevented an Iranian-wrought second Holocaust. If only we could be so sure
In his Holocaust Day address, the PM asserted that his pledge to ensure the regime in Tehran does not develop nuclear weapons had been fulfilled. He of all people should be more circumspect
By David Horovitz
This undated photo shows Hampshire College campus in autumn, in Amherst, Massachusetts. (John Greim/LightRocket via Getty Images)
April 15, 2026, 8:02 am
US college that pioneered Holocaust studies set to close
Hampshire College cites declining enrollment, mounting debt as reasons it will shutter at the end of 2026 after 61 years; closure will not affect nearby Yiddish Book Center
By Andrew Lapin
People take part in the annual "March of the Living" between the former Nazi death camps of Auschwitz and Birkenau to commemorate the Holocaust, in Oswiecim, Poland, April 14, 2026. (AP Photo/Beata Zawrzel)
April 15, 2026, 5:43 am
‘Echoes the dark times’: Recent deadly antisemitism features heavily at March of the Living
‘My father didn’t make it because he was a Jew,’ says daughter of man killed in Bondi Beach attack, as survivors of contemporary massacres join those who survived the WWII genocide by Nazi Germany
By AP and ToI Staff
Historian Johannes Spohr's grandfather, Rudolf Spohr, as an ordnance officer of the German Army High Command shortly before his trip to Crimea, August 1942. (Courtesy/ family collection)
April 15, 2026, 3:44 am
My grandfather, the Nazi: A German historian helps families unravel forebears’ crimes
After discovering his own patriarch’s role in the Holocaust, scholar Johannes Spohr offers workshops that confront uncomfortably specific truths amid a wider culture of remembrance
By Robert Philpot
Screen captures from video of far-right Polish lawmaker Konrad Berkowicz holding up a paper Israeli flag with a swastika in the Polish parliament, April 14, 2026. (X; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
April 14, 2026, 9:28 pm
In parliament, Polish MP calls Israel ‘new Third Reich,’ waves Israeli flag with swastika
Far-right Konrad Berkowicz prompts outrage from fellow lawmakers with display, as he accuses Israel of ‘genocide’ in Gaza; Israel embassy pans ‘antisemitic horror’
By Zev Stub and AFP
Renee Albersheim was murdered during the Holocaust. A Jewish couple in Florida has said the Mourner's Kaddish for her daily for years. (Courtesy Susan Bell via JTA)
April 14, 2026, 6:12 pm
With no one to say Kaddish for many children killed in the Holocaust, a US synagogue steps up
Dozens of families at Temple Beth El in West Palm Beach have ‘adopted’ child victims to memorialize as their own, in a form of remembrance some laud for its continuity
By Stewart Ain
Krystyna and Pawel Chiger (courtesy: Doron Keren)
April 14, 2026, 3:58 pm
How the sewers under Nazi-occupied Ukraine gave rise to unexpected Holocaust heroes
Ignacy Chiger died half a century ago, but his newly published war memoir raises complicated questions of Judenrat’s Jewish communal responsibility versus allegations of complicity
By Matt Lebovic
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