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Illustrative: Pro-Palestinian, anti-Israel protesters take part in a banned demonstration at Berlin's Alexanderplatz on October 7, 2025. (Photo by John MACDOUGALL / AFP)
February 24, 2026, 12:55 pm
Anti-Zionist group’s planned protest of keffiyeh ban at Buchenwald memorial sparks outrage
A German court has ruled that the former concentration camp may refuse entry to visitors wearing the traditional Palestinian headscarf, which has been adopted by pro-Palestinian protesters
By Grace Gilson
Visitors queue at the main gate of the former Buchenwald Nazi concentration camp memorial site, on April 3, 2025. (Jens Schlueter/ AFP)
August 20, 2025, 11:55 pm
German court rules Nazi camp memorial can bar visitors wearing keffiyeh
Woman wearing scarf was refused entry to 80th anniversary event at former camp, petitioned court
By AFP
Director Marisa Fox holding a photo of her mother, Tamar Fromer-Fox (aka Hela Hocherman) in a scene from 'My Underground Mother.' (c) Marisa Fox, 2025. (Andrew Abrahams)
August 2, 2025, 1:45 pm
Journalist thought her Israeli freedom-fighter mother hid something big. She was right
In ‘My Underground Mother,’ premiering at the SF Jewish Film Festival, Marisa Fox grapples with her Polish-born mother’s motives for keeping secrets and hiding her true identity
By Renee Ghert-Zand
Karl Yoneda and Elaine Buchman, March 1933. (Courtesy of Karl G. Yoneda Papers, UCLA Library Special Collections)
July 28, 2025, 1:10 am
The sole Jewish-Japanese family in American WWII internment camps faced antisemitism
New book delves into how, fearing a fifth column following Pearl Harbor, the Roosevelt government incarcerated 120,000 on the West Coast, two-thirds of them US citizens, up to four years
By Renee Ghert-Zand
Guy Poirot, born on March 11, 1945 in Ravensbruck concentration camp, poses with a portrait of his mother from the book 'De la resistance' in Nancy, north-eastern France, on December 10, 2024. (Jean-Christophe Verhaegen / AFP)
April 15, 2025, 12:16 pm
The miracle babies who survived Ravensbrück concentration camp
Infants secretly born in German concentration camp were kept alive by community of women prisoners who risked everything to protect them
By AFP and ToI Staff
101-year-old Hilbert Margol, a World War II veteran who served in the US Army's 42nd Infantry Division, which liberated Dachau. (Benjamin Mack-Jackson)
April 14, 2025, 3:47 pm
101-year-old WWII veteran recalls US Army’s seder night, weeks before liberating Dachau
Hilbert Margol still regularly speaks about the atrocities he saw firsthand at the notorious Nazi concentration camp as a young US soldier: ‘We didn’t understand what we were seeing’
By Benjamin Mack-Jackson
Illustrative: A man walks through the gate of the Sachsenhausen Nazi death camp with the phrase 'Arbeit macht frei' (work sets you free) in Oranienburg, Germany, on International Holocaust Remembrance Day, January 27, 2019. (Markus Schreiber/AP)
December 3, 2024, 6:57 pm
In reversal, German court says 100-year-old Nazi guard may go on trial
Gregor Formanek initially found unfit to face charges of aiding and abetting 3,322 murders at Sachsenhausen concentration camp, but judge rules decision based on flawed expertise
By AFP
An illustrative photo of electric fences with concrete posts and insulators surrounding the barracks where deportees where held at the Auschwitz concentration and death camp established by the Nazis. (Jack Guez/AFP)
October 30, 2024, 8:59 pm
New memorials honor hundreds of Jews murdered at little-known Nazi labor camp in Poland
Relatives of Holocaust survivors joined by Israeli and US envoys to mark unveiling of site at Adampol, where Jews were used as slave labor and massacred
By Vanessa Gera
Karen Frostig has been working for nearly two decades to build a memorial at Jungfernhof, the Latvian site where the Nazis likely murdered her grandparents. (Courtesy Mike E. Dunne/ via JTA)
June 19, 2024, 1:50 am
Artist fights for memorial to 4,000 Jews who died at Jungfernhof Nazi camp in Latvia
For 17 years Karen Frostig worked for recognition of the mostly German and Austrian Jewish victims who died at the poorly-documented site. Latvian officials are now showing support
By Deborah Lynn Blumberg
The entrance gate of the former Nazi concentration camp in Dachau near Munich, southern Germany, with the slogan reading "Works brings you freedom", on Friday, April 24, 2009. (AP Photo/Christof Stache, File)
June 15, 2024, 10:25 pm
Soccer fans in Germany for Euros visit Dachau, lay wreaths in memory of Nazi victims
Fans from Scotland, Ukraine, Germany, Israel tour concentration camp as part of German ‘Football and Remembrance’ program, learn about persecution of Jewish players, coaches there
By Alexandra Hudson and Ayhan Uyanik
Vandals cut down memorial trees at the former Nazi camp of Buchenwald in Germany, July 19, 2022. (Stiftg. Gedenkstätten Buchenwald u. Mittelbau-Dora via JTA)
July 25, 2022, 5:44 pm
Memorial at Buchenwald concentration camp site vandalized twice in a week
Nine beeches toppled or damaged in ‘cowardly act’; premier of German state of Thuringia vows to replant two trees for every one damaged
By AFP
Former Nazi camp guard Josef S. covers his face in the courtroom in Brandenburg, Germany, June 28, 2022. (Michele Tantussi/AP)
June 28, 2022, 12:47 pm
Former Nazi camp guard, 101, gets five-year prison sentence
Josef Schuetz, oldest person to go on trial for Holocaust crimes, found guilty of being accessory to murder at Sachsenhausen camp, though he says he was unaware of killings
By David Courbet
Illustrative: A man walks through the gate of the Sachsenhausen Nazi death camp with the phrase 'Arbeit macht frei' (work sets you free) during International Holocaust Remembrance Day in Oranienburg, about 30 kilometers (18 miles), north of Berlin, Germany. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber, file)
June 27, 2022, 10:07 pm
Lawyers ask German court to acquit 101-year-old accused ex-Nazi guard
Unnamed defendant allegedly served at the Sachsenhausen camp on the outskirts of Berlin between 1942 and 1945, has denied ever working there
By AP
Detail from 'Entertainment,' a drawing of the Terezín concentration camp by Bedřich Fritta, from 1943. Collection of Thomas Fritta Haas. ('Our Will to Live' by Mark Ludwig, published by Steidl/ via JTA)
January 25, 2022, 3:37 am
A musician’s project sheds new light on artistic life in Terezín concentration camp
Trying to pass off the brutal camp as a ‘spa’ for propaganda, the Nazis inadvertently set the stage for creativity by bringing many of the top Jewish artists together in one place
By Jonah Goldman Kay
Magda Rubenfeld Koralewska (front) on a walking tour of the site of the former Plaszow concentration camp in Krakow. (Stan Baranski/FestivALT)
November 23, 2021, 9:07 pm
Jewish group seeks to stall plan to finally commemorate Krakow concentration camp
Fear of an antisemitic backlash causes some local Jews to join residents and environmental activists in pushing back against municipal plans to mark the notorious Plazsow site
By Amy Spiro
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