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Jewish food writer Joan Nathan (center left) and researcher Moriah Amit learned about the Holocaust histories of Nathan's relatives, Wolfgang Bernheim (far left) and his grandmother, Marie Bernheim. (Images courtesy Center for Jewish History via JTA)
April 16, 2026, 4:19 pm
Joan Nathan knew her Catholic relative died in the Holocaust. A new project added detail
The renowned Jewish cookbook author’s family history is uncovered in Histories and Mysteries, an initiative of the Ackman and Ziff Family Genealogy Institute in Manhattan
By Jackie Hajdenberg
Renee Albersheim was murdered during the Holocaust. A Jewish couple in Florida has said the Mourner's Kaddish for her daily for years. (Courtesy Susan Bell via JTA)
April 14, 2026, 6:12 pm
With no one to say Kaddish for many children killed in the Holocaust, a US synagogue steps up
Dozens of families at Temple Beth El in West Palm Beach have ‘adopted’ child victims to memorialize as their own, in a form of remembrance some laud for its continuity
By Stewart Ain
Robert Einstein's family, Nina, Lorenza, Paola, Cici, Seba and Luce in Perugia, Italy, in an undated photo. (Courtesy of Anna Maria Boldrini)
June 23, 2025, 1:58 am
With Albert Einstein safe in NJ, how vengeful Nazis hunted down his cousin Robert
Acclaimed British author Thomas Harding’s new book ‘The Einstein Vendetta’ focuses on brutal murders in a remote Italian villa during the final hours of the German occupation
By Robert Philpot
Menachem Rosensaft at the Bergen-Belsen former Nazi camp in September 2022. (Shahar Azran/WJZ)
February 3, 2025, 3:56 am
A new book of psalms doesn’t praise God, but confronts Him over the Holocaust
Released on Jan. 27, genocide expert Menachem Rosensaft’s ‘Burning Psalms’ is a harsh condemnation of the lack of divine intervention against the Nazis – but it’s not a dismissal
By Cathryn J. Prince
Young adults visit 'Anne Frank: The Exhibition,' at the Center for Jewish History in New York City, January 2025. (John Halpern)
January 25, 2025, 1:19 am
NYC replica of famed Anne Frank House amplifies humanity of those murdered by Nazis
Reproduction of tiny Amsterdam annex where young diarist hid with her family opens to the public at the Center for Jewish History on Monday, International Holocaust Remembrance Day
By Jordan Hoffman
The Stolpersteine, or Stumbling Block, placed outside Anna Donat’s Berlin home shows when she was deported to Auschwitz. (Courtesy Stolpersteine)
January 1, 2025, 4:24 pm
German woman who lives in home looted from Jews must give it up, judge rules
Capping a decade of legal wrangling, the ruling has exposed the complex stories German families tell themselves about the Holocaust, and societal ambivalence towards the victims
By Toby Axelrod
The Sherwin Miller Museum of Jewish Art in Tulsa, Oklahoma, January 1, 2014. (JTA/Kiddo27 via Wikimedia Commons)
November 23, 2024, 8:42 am
Tulsa Jewish museum holds funeral for remains of Holocaust victims it kept for years
Sherwin Miller Museum of Jewish Art buries unidentified remains of several victims from the Auschwitz and Dachau camps
By Andrew Lapin
Amber crucifixes and golden jewelry that were confiscated by Nazi Germans from Stanislawa Wasilewska and returned to relatives in a ceremony in Warsaw, Poland, on September 10, 2024. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)
September 12, 2024, 8:27 am
Jewelry seized from Poles in Nazi concentration camps returned to families
Germany’s Arolsen Archives hands over Stanislawa Wasilewska’s bracelet, watch and crucifixes to her grandson and great-granddaughter at an emotional ceremony in Warsaw
By MONIKA SCISLOWSKA
A mural of Anne Frank wearing a keffiyeh in Bergen, Norway, painted by the anonymous artist Töddel, July 2024. (Courtesy of Töddel via JTA)
July 26, 2024, 7:54 pm
Graffiti in Norway of Anne Frank wearing a keffiyeh sparks outrage
Anonymous artist Töddel claims teen killed in Holocaust would support their call to end ‘the killings of the innocent women and children in Gaza’
By Andrew Lapin
Photo of Yitskhok Rudashevski in the 1930s. (Courtesy of Ghetto Fighters' House Museum, Israel/ Photo Archive and YIVO Institute for Jewish Research)
July 20, 2024, 7:55 am
Now online, diary of teen shot by Nazis tells of desperation, fear, hope in Vilna Ghetto
In its second web-based exhibition, YIVO makes available the lucid observations of Yitskhok Rudashevski, a 15-year-old made wise beyond his years by a life of oppression
By Cathryn J. Prince
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
A photo of the Sylt concentration camp on the island of Alderney after the Nazi surrender, May 1945. (Courtesy of the Trustees of the Royal Air Force Museum/ via Antiquity Publications)
August 7, 2023, 5:30 pm
UK launches inquiry into deaths at sole Nazi concentration camps on British soil
Death toll on the occupied island of Alderney, or ‘Little Auschwitz,’ is hotly debated, as a possibly faulty postwar report has experts saying thousands more may have been killed
By Robert Philpot
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
Friedel Jaffe working as a clerk in the Berlin office of Adler and Oppenheimer in 1936. (Courtesy Deborah Jaffe)
May 18, 2023, 3:26 am
Now on display, UK Jews’ correspondence shows the Holocaust unfolding in real-time
At London’s Wiener Holocaust Library through June 16, an exhibit of letters from WWII tracks the spread of information by Jews seeking to protect loved ones from the Nazis’ web
By Robert Philpot
Charlotte Salomon and her grandparents before 1940. (Unknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons)
January 20, 2023, 5:11 am
New film brings to life a young Auschwitz victim’s extraordinary mixed media display
While hiding from the Nazis, Charlotte Salomon made ‘Life? Or theatre?’, a series of paintings set to music and words
By Sarah Rosen
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