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A partisan bunker is seen in Rudninkai Forest. (Shira Li Bartov/ JTA)
'It’s becoming impossible to get there'
New German military base raises fears for Lithuania’s crumbling Jewish partisan memorial
By Shira Li Bartov
Troops set to deploy near Rudninkai Forest bunkers could further restrict access to only site commemorating local Jews' wartime resistance against Nazis
New Hampshire GOP state Rep. Matt Sabourin dit Choinière (center) testifies before a state committee on his proposed amendment to add a Holocaust denier to the state's Holocaust education commission, January 14, 2026. He is flanked by a stack of Holocaust-denial books. (Screenshot via JTA)
May 1, 2026, 4:15 pm
NH lawmaker faces little pushback after Holocaust deniers testify to education commission
Reports emerge of Rep. Matt Sabourin dit Choinière’s efforts to insert Holocaust denial into the state’s public education guidelines, which took place publicly in January
By Andrew Lapin
Economist E.J. Antoni is interviewed in front of art depicting the Nazi warship Bismarck, December 9, 2024. In August 2025, President Trump nominated Antoni to lead the Bureau of Labor Statistics. (Screenshot via YouTube/ via JTA)
August 16, 2025, 2:34 pm
E.J. Antoni, Trump’s new favorite economist, thinks a Nazi warship is ‘hard not to love’
President’s nominee to run Bureau of Labor Statistics has also had exchanges about German victimhood with pundit Candace Owens, even as many isolated her for her vocal antisemitism
By Andrew Lapin
Poland's new President Karol Nawrocki, with his wife Marta Nawrocka, shows a V-sign during the inauguration ceremony in Warsaw, Poland, on Wednesday, August 6, 2025. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)
August 6, 2025, 3:05 pm
Conservative Holocaust revisionist Karol Nawrocki inaugurated as Poland’s president
In inaugural address, Nawrocki lashes out at ‘lies’; he previously promised to fight ‘all the disgusting attacks’ on Poland by Holocaust scholars
By Agencies and ToI Staff
A man puts a candle by new plaques recently placed near a Polish monument to Jews murdered by their Polish neighbors in the 1941 Jedwabne massacre, July 10, 2025. (Wojtek RADWANSKI / AFP)
July 14, 2025, 3:58 pm
In Polish town where locals burned Jews alive, ‘alternate memorial’ denies complicity
Far-right activist erected history-falsifying plaques at site of 1941 Jedwabne massacre ahead of last week’s commemoration, smearing Jewish victims and exonerating Polish perpetrators
By Shira Li Bartov
Karol Nawrocki, candidate for the 2025 Polish presidential election supported by Poland's right-wing Law and Justice (PiS) party, flashes the victory sign in front of supporters as exit polls were announced on tv during their election night event at the Mala Warszawa Theatre in Warsaw, Poland, during the second round of the presidential elections on June 1, 2025. (Photo by Wojtek RADWANSKI / AFP)
June 2, 2025, 10:19 am
Conservative Holocaust revisionist Karol Nawrocki wins Polish presidential election
Nawrocki, who was backed by Trump, narrowly defeats liberal Warsaw Mayor Rafał Trzaskowski in second round runoff in major blow to PM Donald Tusk’s reform agenda
By Agencies
Joe Rogan looks on at the ceremonial weigh-in for the UFC 292 mixed martial arts event, August 18, 2023, in Boston. (AP Photo/Gregory Payan)
March 15, 2025, 3:26 am
Joe Rogan hosts Holocaust revisionist on his podcast, complains of ‘paranoid’ Jews
Week after hosting antisemitic conspiracy theorist, podcaster praises ‘nuanced’ and ‘comprehensive’ views of Darryl Cooper, who falsely claims that Hitler opposed Kristallnacht
By Ben Sales
Illustrative: A man walks by a billboard showing a yellow Star of David that reads 'Jude,' Jew in German. (AP Photo/ Oded Balilty)
August 8, 2023, 6:31 am
German man accused of posing as a Jew and peddling fake, antisemitic Holocaust story
Retired teacher Frank Borner purports to operate under the auspices of the ‘Meet a Jew’ program, but a Jewish journalist has found major inconsistencies in his account
By Toby Axelrod
Nobuki Sugihara and family at a ceremony honoring his late father Chiune Sugihara, a Japanese diplomat in Lithuania in 1940 who issued transit visas that saved thousands of Jews (Times of Israel)
August 1, 2023, 8:42 pm
Researchers say Japan exaggerated the story of ‘Japanese Schindler’ Chiune Sugihara
In recent years, the Lithuania-based diplomat who issued thousands of visas to Jews became a household name – but is his lionization part of a familiar post-Holocaust phenomenon?
By Jordyn Haime
King Boris of Bulgaria, wearing civilian dress, left, with Adolf Hitler and Joachim Von Ribbentrop, right, when he paid a visit on May 14, 1941, at Hitler's Rolling headquarters. (AP Photo)
March 17, 2023, 11:26 am
Why Bulgarian Jews skipped an official ceremony marking their rescue from the Nazis
Officials marked 80 years since Tsar Boris III stopped the deportation of the country’s 48,000 Jews; they didn’t mention the 11,000 whose murder by Nazis his government facilitated
By David I. Klein
Ellen Germain, US special envoy on Holocaust issues, listens during a panel before a screening of 'The US and the Holocaust' at the United Nations in New York, February 9, 2023. (John Lamparski/Getty Images via JTA)
March 14, 2023, 2:19 am
As Europe celebrates its past, US Holocaust envoy reminds states of their darker side
Ellen Germain is keeping tabs as certain countries quietly attempt to revise their histories, working to ensure that a fair and nuanced vision of the past is maintained
By Ron Kampeas
Filmmaker Jonas Mekas attends The Anthology Film Archives Benefit and Auction in New York City, March 2, 2017. (Nicholas Hunt/Getty Images for Anthology Film Archives/ via JTA)
May 20, 2022, 4:01 am
Historian says NY’s Jewish Museum sanitizes filmmaker’s WWII record in new exhibit
Godfather of US avant-garde film Jonas Mekas fled Lithuania in 1944 as the Nazis advanced, but Yale researcher Michael Casper believes the now-deceased artist misled about his past
By Asaf Shalev
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov (left) attends a press conference in Moscow on April 27, 2022 and Foreign Minister Yair Lapid addresses a press conference in Casablanca, on August 12, 2021. (Yuri KOCHETKOV / various sources / AFP)
May 3, 2022, 12:18 pm
Moscow, under fire for Hitler comments, says Israel backing ‘neo-Nazis’ in Ukraine
Russia calls comments by Lapid ‘anti-historical,’ defends Lavrov’s suggestion the Nazi leader had Jewish blood, claiming some Jews in Holocaust did ‘absolutely monstrous deeds’
By Amy Spiro
Foreign Minister Yair Lapid holds a press conference in Tel Aviv on April 14, 2022. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)
May 3, 2022, 10:13 am
Lapid says Russian envoy subjected to ‘tough conversation’ over Lavrov comments
Declining to elaborate further due to ‘diplomatic protocol,’ foreign minister reiterates call for Moscow to apologize after his Russian counterpart claimed Hitler had Jewish blood
By Amy Spiro
Illustrative: A typical shtetl-style house in Ukraine. (Sue Surkes)
August 22, 2021, 10:51 pm
Built for a film, a fake Ukrainian shtetl may become a museum to the real thing
The set for a historical WW II feature titled ‘Shttl,’ put up this summer on a lakeside near Kiev, has brought the Jewish villages that once dotted the Old Country back to life
By Cnaan Liphshiz
Louisiana state Rep. Valarie Hodges sits with author David Barton, who has been branded an 'extremist' by the Southern Poverty Law Center, during a May debate on a bill of Hodges' that would have mandated Holocaust education in the state. The bill, which Hodges ultimately declined to pursue after amendments, was backed by fringe figures such as Barton partially as a response to parallel efforts to legislate the teaching of other history lessons. (Screenshot from Louisiana House of Representatives/ via JTA)
July 11, 2021, 11:25 pm
Failed Louisiana Holocaust education bill was used to pan critical race theory
Jewish groups split over support; amid ongoing debate, bill’s founder posts photo of Hitler on official Facebook page with caption saying he was ‘everything today’s liberal craves’
By Eleanor Stern
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