Holocaust

SS chief Heinrich Himmler (center) shakes hands with Hitler's photographer, Heinrich Hoffmann, around 1941 (public domain)

New book claims a ‘secret deal’ between Nazis and Allies cut the Holocaust short

Journalist Max Wallace writes that a hushed-up pact between Heinrich Himmler and his sworn enemies prompted the SS chief to destroy the gas chambers of Auschwitz. Experts disagree

Patrons at the Synagoga Cafe in Trnava, Slovakia, September 13, 2017. (Wikimedia Commons/via JTA)

June 9, 2018, 12:50 pm

Synagogues become nightclubs in Eastern Europe, sparking anger at desecration

As former Jewish houses of worship are becoming trendy hotspots, advocates laud historical preservation while critics condemn disrespect

By Cnaan Liphshiz

June 9, 2018, 12:27 pm

‘Bride of Belsen’ Holocaust survivor who treated Anne Frank dies aged 95

Gena Turgel survived the Krakow ghetto, a death march, and the Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen camps

By TOI staff

Picture taken on April 12, 2018 in Berlin shows German rappers Kollegah (L) and Farid Bang posing with their Echo trophies they were given in the 2018 Hip-Hop/Urban category. (AFP PHOTO / dpa / Jens Kalaene0

June 9, 2018, 9:19 am

German rappers criticized for anti-Semitic lyrics visit Auschwitz

After Echo Awards cancelled for good following uproar at winners' lyrical call for another Holocaust, Kollegah and Farid Bang place wreath at death camp's memorial in Block 11

By JTA

Photo was taken from the body of a dead Germany officer killed in Russia, showing a German firing squad shooting Soviet civilians in the back as they sit beside their own mass grave, in Babi Yar, Kiev, 1942. (AP Photo, file)

June 7, 2018, 4:59 am

Nazi death squads are focus of latest war crime cases in Germany

Prosecutors investigating suspected former member of the 'Einsatzgruppen' mobile killing squads

By David Rising

In this May 30, 2018 photo, Rabbi Arie Zeev Raskin, the leader of Cyprus' 3,500-strong Jewish community, holds a rare 200 year-old Torah scroll that comes from Germany at a Synagogue inside Cyprus' Jewish Community Center in the town of Larnaca. (AP Photo/Petros Karadjias)

June 6, 2018, 4:35 pm

New Cyprus Jewish museum aims to build bridges with Arab world

Larnaca center to display Torah scrolls stolen by Nazis; 'It's an opportunity for a prince from Abu Dhabi to learn about Jerusalem,' says local rabbi

By MENELAOS HADJICOSTIS

German Chancellor Angela Merkel gives a speech on her government's budget policy at the Bundestag (lower house of parliament) in Berlin, May 16, 2018. (AFP PHOTO / Tobias SCHWARZ)

June 4, 2018, 4:29 pm

Merkel slams far-right leader’s ‘shameful’ remark minimizing Nazism

German chancellor condemns far-right AfD party leader, says the country bears 'everlasting responsibility' for 'immense suffering' it caused

By AFP

Alexander Gauland, co-faction leader of the Alternative for Germany, AfD at the federal parliament Bundestag, attends a congress of the party's youth organization 'Young Alternative,' at Seebach, Germany on June 2, 2018. (Alexander Prautzsch/dpa via AP)

June 4, 2018, 2:02 pm

Moderates in far-right German party mutiny over Nazi bird poop comment

Alexander Gauland accused from within AfD of failing to recognize German responsibility for Holocaust

By TOI staff and Agencies

The cover of the 2017-2018 yearbook at New Berlin West High School, in New Berlin, Wisconsin, that was pulled over a student's anti-Semitic quote. (screen capture: YouTube via TMJ4)

June 3, 2018, 8:50 pm

Wisconsin high school pulls yearbook over anti-Semitic quote

New Berlin West apologizes for student's 'inappropriate and offensive' reference to Nazi genocide; publisher to cover offending remark

By JTA

Established in 1933 by Alfred Wiener, a German Jew decorated with the Iron Cross in World War I, the Wiener Library in London is the world's oldest Holocaust museum. (Courtesy)

June 3, 2018, 10:06 am

You’ve probably never heard of the world’s oldest Holocaust museum

Founded in 1933, London's Wiener Library actively collected material in real time throughout WWII, later playing a key role in the Nuremberg, Eichmann and Irving trials

By Robert Philpot

Anna 'Ans' van Dijk on trial in Amsterdam for collaborating with the Nazis (left) and diarist Anne Frank (public domain)

June 1, 2018, 4:20 pm

Was Anne Frank betrayed by a Jewish collaborator?

With her 'satanic hunting instinct,' the notorious Anna 'Ans' van Dijk is fingered to have tipped off Nazis about the Jews hidden in the 'Secret Annex,' leading to their murders

By Matt Lebovic

Berlin's House of the Wannsee Conference, where the Third Reich devised the Final Solution in January 1942, is now a memorial and museum. (Courtesy of the House of the Wannsee Conference via JTA)

May 31, 2018, 3:12 pm

Germany gives me hope

It's inspiring to see how deeply and sincerely the country reckons with the horrific crimes of its past

By Ralph Genende

A Holocaust memorial created in the 'sauna' facility of the former Nazi death camp Auschwitz-Birkenau, in Poland, with photographs of people deported there, October 2017 (Matt Lebovic/The Times of Israel)

May 31, 2018, 3:58 am

Defending Auschwitz selfies, a new book unpacks Holocaust tourism

While commemorating the genocide perpetuated by the Nazis, visitors to memorial sites are increasingly placing themselves in the frame

By Matt Lebovic

Illegal immigrants on the deck of the Pan York on the day they arrived in Israel, August 14, 1948. (Yad Vashem Archives)

May 29, 2018, 9:34 pm

New Yad Vashem exhibit chronicles Jewish yearning for Israel during Holocaust

'They Say There Is a Land' displays artwork, letters, photos and hand-drawn maps from persecuted Jews who saw Zionism as a beacon of hope

By Tracy Frydberg

A still from Nijat Safarli's Holocaust video, May 2018 (Screenshot)

May 28, 2018, 5:11 am

Russian blogger tricks passersby into wishing ‘happy Holocaust day’

Nijat Safarli removes video after backlash, says clip was filmed to highlight ignorance about Nazi genocide

By JTA

Blogger Alison Chabloz, accused of posting anti-Semitic songs on her site, arrives at Westminster Magistrate's Court in London on January 10, 2018. (AFP/Tolga Akmen)

May 26, 2018, 12:49 pm

British blogger who sang about Holocaust denial convicted

Alison Chabloz, 54, is found guilty of writing, performing and disseminating three songs, including one about Anne Frank and another claiming the genocide was 'a bunch of lies'

By JTA