September 11, 2016
3:03 am

Martha and Waitstill Sharp departing New York Harbor for Prague in 1939. (Courtesy of Sharp Family Archives/via JTA)

New Ken Burns film spotlights little-known Holocaust rescuers

How a quiet New England couple traveled to Europe on the eve of WWII and saved hundreds through clandestine operations — including money laundering and smuggling

By Ben Sales

September 9, 2016
7:21 pm

A porcelain Mickey Mouse figurine found by farmers near the Auschwitz death camp in Poland (AFP Photo/Ivo Kopijasz)

Mickey Mouse figurine resurfaces near Auschwitz

Head of Holocaust foundation says child who owned statuette likely died in gas chambers of the Nazi death camp

By AFP

September 8, 2016
7:16 pm

German social welfare judge, Jan-Robert von Renesse. (Screenshot/zeitpunktplus)

German judge faces punishment for helping survivors apply for ghetto pensions

Jewish leaders, politicians rally as Jan-Robert von Renesse, a social welfare judge, faces reprimand, suspension or forced resignation over his efforts

By JTA

September 3, 2016
7:48 pm

German Holocaust denier Ursula Haverbeck speaks during an interview in 2014 (screen capture: YouTube)

Prominent German neo-Nazi convicted of Holocaust denial

87-year-old Ursula Haverbeck says Auschwitz was only a labor camp and calls its survivors ‘alleged witnesses’

By AP

September 3, 2016
8:28 am

Khalif Mitchell in a 2010 photo, when he played for the San Francisco 49ers NFL football team. (AP Photo via Getty Images/JTA)

Canadian team signs player who called Jews ‘devils’

On his twitter account, Khalif Mitchell also posted a link to a YouTube video calling the Holocaust ‘the greatest lie ever told’

By JTA

September 2, 2016
5:38 pm

Genevieve de Gaulle (niece of Charles de Gaulle) and Odette Fabius (center), friends since their incarceration in Ravensbruck concentration camp, after Fabius was awarded Officier de La Legion d’Honneur 1971. (Courtesy)

The women in WWII Paris who ‘did what they had to’ for survival

Author Anne Sebba reveals a female-driven wartime France through series of sweeping vignettes in her new book ‘Les Parisiennes’

By Jenni Frazer

September 2, 2016
2:07 pm

Holocaust monuments defaced in Russia, Estonia

Swastikas painted near Tallinn, memorial to hundreds of murdered Jews in Pskov smashed

By JTA

September 1, 2016
8:14 pm

The former Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Biology buiding in Berlin. (CC-BY-SA 3.0/Torinberl/Wikimedia)

Human bones found near former Berlin Nazi research site

Archaeologists uncover fragments of fractured skulls, teeth, and vertebrae close to where Mengele’s victims were studied

By AP

September 1, 2016
3:11 pm

Jews go back to a town in Lithuania

Locals killed the Jewish population and then denied their role, until efforts to memorialize the calamity prevailed

By Anna Rudnitsky

September 1, 2016
8:28 am

Ben Ferencz stands in the courtroom where the Nuremberg trials were held on August 9, 2012 in Nuremburg, Germany. (CC BY-SA Wikimedia commons

Nuremberg prosecutor gives $1 million to US Holocaust museum

Ben Ferencz is the last surviving attorney who tried Nazi war criminals in 1945 military tribunals

By AP

August 31, 2016
1:29 pm

Joseph Harmatz sits in his apartment in Tel Aviv. (AP Photo /Tsafrir Abayov)

Jewish avenger’s sole regret: No Nazis died in post-war arsenic plot

70 years later, it’s still not clear why bid to poison 12,000 SS men held by the Americans in Nuremberg failed; Joseph Harmatz, 91, is adamant that it was his ‘duty’ to try

By Aron Heller and Randy Herschaft

August 31, 2016
5:51 am

Israeli student filmmaker’s documentary to be entered in Oscar race

True story of love affair between Auschwitz guard and Jewish woman guaranteed gold medal as only finalist in category

By JTA

August 30, 2016
6:33 am

The Lodz Ghetto (CC-BY SA German Federal Archive/Wikimedia Commons)

EU allocates $1.5 million to expand Lodz train station museum

Funds will be used to modernize building, construct multimedia model

By JTA

August 29, 2016
4:32 am

Polish President Andrzej Duda at the presidential palace, Warsaw, Poland, April 10, 2016. (Mateusz Wlodarczyk/Pacific Press/LightRocket via Getty Images/JTA)

State burial in Poland for WWII heroes slain by communists

Hundreds turn out for ceremonies honoring 17-year-old Home Army nurse and a 42-year-old ensign

By AP

August 26, 2016
9:54 pm

Tunisian women, one wearing a 'burkini,' a full-body swimsuit designed for Muslim women, swimming at Ghar El Melh beach near Bizerte, northeast of the capital Tunis, August 16, 2016 (AFP/Fethi Belaid)

French Jewish leader: Comparing burkini ban to Holocaust is indecent

Francis Kalifat slams leftwing politician for saying Muslims are being persecuted just as Jews once were

By JTA

Topic: Holocaust

New Ken Burns film spotlights little-known Holocaust rescuers

How a quiet New England couple traveled to Europe on the eve of WWII and saved hundreds through clandestine operations — including money laundering and smuggling

Mickey Mouse figurine resurfaces near Auschwitz

Head of Holocaust foundation says child who owned statuette likely died in gas chambers of the Nazi death camp

German judge faces punishment for helping survivors apply for ghetto pensions

Jewish leaders, politicians rally as Jan-Robert von Renesse, a social welfare judge, faces reprimand, suspension or forced resignation over his efforts

Prominent German neo-Nazi convicted of Holocaust denial

87-year-old Ursula Haverbeck says Auschwitz was only a labor camp and calls its survivors ‘alleged witnesses’

Canadian team signs player who called Jews ‘devils’

On his twitter account, Khalif Mitchell also posted a link to a YouTube video calling the Holocaust ‘the greatest lie ever told’

The women in WWII Paris who ‘did what they had to’ for survival

Author Anne Sebba reveals a female-driven wartime France through series of sweeping vignettes in her new book ‘Les Parisiennes’

Holocaust monuments defaced in Russia, Estonia

Swastikas painted near Tallinn, memorial to hundreds of murdered Jews in Pskov smashed

Human bones found near former Berlin Nazi research site

Archaeologists uncover fragments of fractured skulls, teeth, and vertebrae close to where Mengele’s victims were studied

Jews go back to a town in Lithuania

Locals killed the Jewish population and then denied their role, until efforts to memorialize the calamity prevailed

Nuremberg prosecutor gives $1 million to US Holocaust museum

Ben Ferencz is the last surviving attorney who tried Nazi war criminals in 1945 military tribunals

Jewish avenger’s sole regret: No Nazis died in post-war arsenic plot

70 years later, it’s still not clear why bid to poison 12,000 SS men held by the Americans in Nuremberg failed; Joseph Harmatz, 91, is adamant that it was his ‘duty’ to try

Israeli student filmmaker’s documentary to be entered in Oscar race

True story of love affair between Auschwitz guard and Jewish woman guaranteed gold medal as only finalist in category

EU allocates $1.5 million to expand Lodz train station museum

Funds will be used to modernize building, construct multimedia model

State burial in Poland for WWII heroes slain by communists

Hundreds turn out for ceremonies honoring 17-year-old Home Army nurse and a 42-year-old ensign

French Jewish leader: Comparing burkini ban to Holocaust is indecent

Francis Kalifat slams leftwing politician for saying Muslims are being persecuted just as Jews once were

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