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Holocaust stories and images generated by artificial intelligence are sparking debate among educators and historians. (Illustration by Grace Yagel for JTA)
May 12, 2026, 5:33 am
Experts debate whether AI-generated Holocaust content aids memory or distorts it
A World Jewish Congress clip of Anne Frank highlights potential and peril of new tools as firsthand testimony dies out — and opportunists capitalize on endless supply of ‘slop’
By Toby Axelrod
Charlie Scheidt and Kat Rohrer are the co-authors of 'Inheritance: Love, Loss and the Legacy of the Holocaust.'(Rutgers University Press via JTA)
April 22, 2026, 4:11 pm
Son of Holocaust survivors and granddaughter of a Nazi confront their separate inheritances
Charlie Scheidt and Kat Rohrer forge unlikely partnership to pen ‘Inheritance,’ a memoir about his family’s harrowing escape from the death machine her grandfather was committed to
By Andrew Silow-Carroll
Catherine Szkop (left) and Abbie Talmoud, survivors of the terror attack at the Capital Jewish Museum in Washington, DC, stands at the gate to Auschwitz on April 13, 2026. (Yossi Zeliger)
April 14, 2026, 5:03 pm
At Auschwitz, Diaspora Jews who lived through terror march alongside Holocaust survivors
In the deadliest year for Diaspora Jews in three decades, the March of the Living becomes a meeting place for those who experienced antisemitic persecution on three continents
By Lianne Kolirin
Holocaust survivor Tommy Shaham gives testimony during a Zikaron BaSalon living room commemoration in this undated photo. (Courtesy of Zikaron BaSalon)
April 13, 2026, 8:08 am
From generation to generation: Holocaust and Oct. 7 meet in intimate salon memorials
As the Zikaron BaSalon program grows to over 2 million participants worldwide, former hostages and their families learn from survivors how telling their stories can aid in rehabilitation
By Bernard Dichek
German police search an elderly Jewish man at gunpoint in Kolo, Poland, circa 1941. (Courtesy of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum/ Instytut Pamieci Narodowej)
April 3, 2026, 2:58 pm
The elderly were among the most vulnerable in the Holocaust – and the most overlooked
‘Eldercide,’ on display at London’s Wiener Holocaust Library through April 30, explores how older Jews were especially unlikely to survive the Nazis, while those who did faced enormous challenges
By Robert Philpot
Holocaust survivor Ginette Kolinka, 100, attends a commemorative ceremony to mark the 80th anniversary of the return of death camp deportees, in Paris, France, April 27, 2025. (AP Photo/Thomas Padilla)
March 31, 2026, 1:31 pm
At 101, Holocaust survivor credits Spielberg for her ongoing fight against hatred
Ginette Kolinka, who survived Auschwitz, stayed silent for decades until Hollywood director’s foundation interviewed her in 1997; now, she shares her story in media and schools
By John Leicester
Stephen Lang and Elsie Fisher in 'The Optimist.' (Courtesy of Jeanine Thomas)
March 11, 2026, 3:43 pm
New drama tells true story of Holocaust survivor who helps scores of troubled teens
In US theaters March 11, ‘The Optimist’ portrays how big-hearted toy store owner Herbert Heller came to open up about his experiences – and how his talks impacted youth in distress
By Rich Tenorio
Elie Wiesel arrives for a round table discussion on Capitol Hill, March 2, 2015, in Washington, DC. (WIN MCNAMEE / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / Getty Images via AFP)
January 27, 2026, 5:52 am
New documentary reveals saga behind Elie Wiesel’s world-famous Holocaust memoir ‘Night’
In ‘Elie Wiesel: Soul on Fire,’ airing on PBS in the US on January 27, filmmaker Oren Rudavsky examines the Nobel laureate through his ‘lifelong attempt to give his life meaning’
By Rich Tenorio
'The Recordings: Voices from the Shoah Tapes,' on view at the New York Historical, features listening stations where visitors can hear the testimony of Holocaust survivors, perpetrators and resisters, including Hillel Kook (Peter Bergson), seen in the video talking about his efforts to influence US government officials to save Europe's Jews. (JTA photo)
December 12, 2025, 4:04 am
A timely New York exhibition immerses listeners in voices from the Holocaust
Rare, unheard recordings collected by Claude Lanzmann for his monumental film ‘Shoah’ feature testimonies that still demand to be heard – and now can be, at the New York Historical
By Andrew Silow-Carroll
Leslie Gelrubin Benitah, right, with her late grandmother Bajla Gelrubin on her 100th birthday. (Courtesy)
April 26, 2025, 6:00 am
Geolocated app connects Auschwitz visitors with survivors’ testimonies on horrors in camp
Titled The Last Ones, the application utilizes short interviews with Holocaust survivors to illuminate Nazi murders and torments — at camps and throughout Europe
By Rich Tenorio
German troops arrest the last remaining members of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising in this photo from the Stroop Report. A red line appears under Michael Smuss, with his father to his right. (National Archives Collection of World War II War Crimes Records)
April 24, 2025, 10:44 am
82 years after the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, its last living fighter bears witness
Michael Smuss helped smuggle supplies needed during the Jewish resistance against the Nazis; he shares how a series of ‘lucky’ accidents helped him withstand further horrors
By Zev Stub
Dr. Fadi Badarna, right, a volunteer eye doctor with LeMa’anam (“for their sake” in Hebrew), a nonprofit organization providing free home healthcare to Holocaust survivors, and Aviv Paz, a LeMa'anam employee, look at the number tattoo that Chana Sandouvsky received in Auschwitz, in her home in Kiryat Bialik on April 16, 2025. (Diana Bletter/Times of Israel)
April 24, 2025, 8:11 am
In shadow of Holocaust and war, Arab doctors find shared humanity in caring for survivors
Volunteering for nonprofit LeMa’anam, Christian Yosif Boulos and Muslim Fadi Badarna provide home visits for elderly who lived through horrors decades ago and in wake of October 7
By Diana Bletter
Berysz Aurbach, center, at his 104th birthday party in Melbourne, Australia. (Courtesy of Moshe Aurbach)
April 21, 2025, 2:22 am
104-year-old Warsaw Ghetto survivor in Australia gives vivid testimony of uprising
Some 35,000 survivors made their way down under post-WWII. Berysz Aurbach is a rare firsthand witness of the Jews’ revolt against their Nazi oppressors on Passover of 1943
By Nomi Kaltmann
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
An actor at Yad Vashem's new Touching Memory theater (Yad Vashem)
April 10, 2025, 4:31 pm
With ‘engaging’ approach to Holocaust storytelling, Yad Vashem targets next generation
A new audiovisual experience and live theater at the national museum and memorial raise questions about Shoah education after survivors pass on
By Zev Stub
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