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Holocaust art

'Figures in the Ghetto,' by Zvi Hersz Szylis (Art Collection, Moshal Repository, Yad Vashem)
May 13, 2026, 4:48 am
In the Łódź Ghetto, Jews defied Nazis through art. Now it is exhibited in Jerusalem
The second-largest city in Poland had a thriving Jewish cultural scene before The Third Reich incarcerated 164,000 Jews for slave labor. A Yad Vashem exhibit shows their resilience
By Zev Stub
A pair of finials, which adorned the wooden rollers of a Torah scroll, are among the artifacts being returned to Greece. (Jewish Historical Institute in Warsaw)
March 4, 2026, 11:19 pm
Poland, in a first, returns 91 Jewish objects to Greece that were stolen by Nazis
Judaica was plundered from once-thriving Jewish community of Thessaloniki in 1941; found in Poland after the war, it was kept for decades in Warsaw’s Jewish Historical Institute
By Shira Li Bartov
A wardrobe pierced by a bayonet (with a hole in the upper right), and a tree trunk that a young man hid in to escape the Nazis are two of the artifacts displayed in Yad Vashem's Living Memory exhibition (Yad Vashem)
November 13, 2025, 6:01 am
Never-revealed Holocaust artifacts illuminate tragedy and triumph in new Yad Vashem exhibit
The Living Memory exhibition brings individual experiences to the fore with deeply personal effects from the museum’s vast archives
By Zev Stub
The Czech-Jewish composer Victor Ullman, left, was murdered during the Holocaust; Pavel Kling, right, survived and later became the concertmaster of the Louisville Orchestra. (Courtesy Louisville Orchestra via JTA)
January 25, 2025, 12:16 am
Louisville Orchestra remembers concertmaster with opera he learned in Theresienstadt
After escaping a death march from Auschwitz, Paul Kling moved to Kentucky and became the orchestra’s first chair. A Saturday performance of ‘Der Kaiser von Atlantis’ will honor him
By Shira Li Bartov
Fred Kormis in his studio in the 1980s. (Courtesy: Wiener Holocaust Library Collections via JTA)
September 10, 2024, 7:49 pm
The overlooked artist who escaped the Nazis and made the 1st UK memorial to their victims
A new display at London’s Wiener Holocaust Library follows the upheaval that plagued the life of little-known sculptor Fred Kormis, who focused on memorializing humans in captivity
By Shira Li Bartov
A magazine is displayed during a preview of the exhibition 'My Verses Are like Dynamite' by Curt Bloch at the Jewish Museum in Berlin, Germany on February 8, 2024. (Stefanie Loos / AFP)
February 9, 2024, 5:11 pm
Nazi gorillas and Hitler as a clown: Holocaust survivor’s cartoons on show in Berlin
Full collection of Curt Block’s satirical magazines goes on display eight decades after he created them with a fountain pen and newspaper cutouts while hiding in a Dutch attic
By Deborah Cole
From left to right: Pinkus Schwarz, Maximillian Feuerring, Ewa Brzezinska and Hirsch Szylis outside Munich’s Lenbachhaus Municipal Art Gallery in 1948. (United States Holocaust Memorial Museum/ Jewish Museum Munich)
December 30, 2023, 2:44 am
Resurrected exhibit provides insight into Jewish artists during, after the Holocaust
‘Munich Displaced,’ at the Munich Jewish Museum through March 17, portrays the city when it was a hub for 200,000 displaced Jews who survived the war
By Bernard Dichek
Bruno Schulz, 'Dedication,' 'The Book of Idolatry,' 1920s. (courtesy)
June 30, 2023, 6:37 pm
How the work of a celebrated artist killed by a Nazi mysteriously ended up in Israel
In ‘Bruno Schulz,’ author Benjamin Balint follows the dark story of a renowned Polish-Jewish creative turned SS officer’s artist-slave, and the battles over his surviving legacy
By JP O’ Malley
Artwork from Art Spiegelman's 'Maus.' (Courtesy/Pantheon & Schocken Books)
June 15, 2023, 7:50 pm
Missouri school district to debate ban of ‘Maus’ over potential ‘sexual material’
Art Spiegelman, author of Holocaust graphic novel, leading fight against possible move at district of 6,000 students: ‘Book burning leads to people burning’
By Andrew Lapin
Tourists stand near a disputed Wassily Kandinsky painting at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, July 10, 2019. (Canaan Lidor)
March 29, 2023, 3:29 pm
Art in spotlight as 9 countries’ Holocaust envoys hold 1st gathering on restitution
US delegate Ellen Germain say conference meant to ensure governments are building on each other’s experience
By Canaan Lidor
Jacquelyne Vargas plays the video game "The Light in the Darkness," about a family of Polish Jews in France during the Holocaust, at Indie Game Revolution inside the Museum of Pop Culture (MoPOP) in Seattle, Washington, on February 23, 2023. (Jason Redmond/AFP)
February 28, 2023, 11:53 am
In new Holocaust video game, players walk in shoes of Jewish family ripped from home
‘The Light in the Darkness’ creator says he hopes medium can be used to deal with subject in the same way as movies; was bothered by WWII games not clearly featuring genocide
By Daniel Hoffman
Promo pic for Jimmy Carr Destroys Art ((Rob Parfitt/Channel 4)
October 14, 2022, 8:25 am
‘Utterly sick’: UK TV to potentially destroy artwork by Hitler on new reality show
Program will take pieces by ‘problematic’ figures and ask audience to vote on their fate; antisemitism watchdog, other critics, decry ‘desperate’ format
By Ash Obel and ToI Staff
Artist Jenny Kagan's immersive exhibition 'Out of Darkness' in Kaunas, Lithuania, July 2022 (photo: Grazvydas Jovaisa)
October 1, 2022, 6:34 am
In Kaunas, a British artist shines light on Holocaust massacre forgotten by locals
Near the site of one of the genocide’s most heavily photographed atrocities, lighting designer Jenny Kagan brings the city’s wartime past ‘Out of Darkness’
By Matt Lebovic
The Wassily Kandinsky painting 'View of Murnau with Church,' which was returned in September 2022 to the descendants of a Jewish art collector who was murdered in the Holocaust. (Public domain)
September 29, 2022, 2:44 pm
Reversing earlier stance, Netherlands to return looted Kandinsky to Jewish family
Relatives of murdered Auschwitz victim Johanna Margarethe Stern-Lippmann will regain ‘View of Murnau with Church,’ displayed in the Dutch city of Eindhoven’s art museum since 1951
By Cnaan Liphshiz
Musician Lenka Lichtenberg. (Bo Huang)
September 23, 2022, 11:08 am
Podcast: Secret Holocaust poems set to haunting music by survivor’s granddaughter
Czech-born musician Lenka Lichtenberg speaks about her new album, ‘Thieves of Dreams,’ based on poetry written in Theresienstadt and hidden in Prague. NEW: Full transcript included
By Amanda Borschel-Dan
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