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This undated image, provided by the Lenbachhaus Museum in Munich, Germany, shows the 1907 painting 'Das bunte Leben' (The Colorful Life) by Russian artist Wassily Kandinsky. (Lenbachhaus Museum via AP)
Kandinsky painting, restituted to Jewish family after Nazi looting, sells for over $42 million
By ToI Staff
'The Colorful Life' exceeds upper limit of estimated price by almost $10 million after six-minute bidding war, becoming highest-valued lot of the night, Christie's says
The Reel Schmooze's featured film of the week is 'The Stamp Thief: A Holocaust Mystery.' (Courtesy)
October 10, 2026, 10:55 am
‘The Stamp Thief’: Will a rag-tag team of LA Jews get lucky in Poland?
ToI’s movie maven and deputy editor follow a group of semi-retired Hollywood writers as they attempt to unravel a mystery and maybe even right a historical wrong
By Amanda Borschel-Dan and Jordan Hoffman
A children's "Beetlejuice" costume formerly listed on the Zara website which was compared to prison garb worn by inmates in Nazi concentration camps. (Zara)
October 2, 2026, 4:43 am
Zara pulls Halloween costume likened to uniform for inmates at concentration camps
Outfit resembling garb worn by ‘Beetlejuice’ removed after raising eyebrows online; Claims Conference head says repeated incidents by firm show need for Holocaust education
By Gabe Kahn
Vincent Reynouard (left), prosecuted for contesting crimes against humanity, during his appearance before the Saverne criminal court, September 27, 2007. (Frederick FLORIN / AFP)
September 23, 2026, 12:37 pm
French Holocaust denier jailed for denying Nazi gas chambers, saying Jews spread disease
Vincent Reynouard, who has been convicted 10 times for similar offenses, sentenced to 8 months and ordered to pay damages to Jewish groups
By AFP and ToI Staff
US Rep. Jared Moskowitz, D-Fla., holds up a Trump Bible as he questions Attorney General Pam Bondi in the House Judiciary Committee at the Capitol in Washington, February 11, 2026. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
September 17, 2026, 9:43 am
US Rep. Moskowitz uses Holocaust footage in campaign ad, citing family history
‘Never again is now,’ says Florida congressman, touting record of fighting antisemitism; his Republican opponent in competitive race, Scott Singer, is also Jewish
By Sharon Udasin
Black and white photographs of the Adam and Eve Diptych painted by Lucas Cranach the Elder. (Goudstikker/von Saher archive)
September 17, 2026, 9:43 am
LA Federation sues museum for custody of looted paintings once hoarded by Hermann Göring
Pasadena museum taken to court over Adam and Eve diptych; separately, Holocaust survivor’s daughters sue Auschwitz Museum for watercolors she was forced to paint for Josef Mengele
By Jackie Hajdenberg
Polish-born oldest known Holocaust survivor Yehuda Widawski from Tel Aviv arrives at a tent build in front of the entrance of the former Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz-Birkenau for a ceremony to mark the 70th anniversary of the liberation of the death camp on January 27, 2015, in Oswiecim, Poland. (AFP PHOTO/ODD ANDERSEN)
September 14, 2026, 9:37 am
Yehuda Widawski, the oldest Holocaust survivor in Israel, dies at 107
Widawski, born in Poland, lost parents and all but one sibling during Holocaust; from 1978, he dedicated his life to restoring destroyed Jewish graves in Poland
By Michael Horovitz
A mother and daughter, both Czech Jewish slave laborers at Lippstadt, a subcamp of Buchenwald, 1945. (Wiener Holocaust Library collections)
August 15, 2026, 8:30 am
‘Annihilation through work’: London exhibit highlights overlooked story of slave labor in WWII
‘Nazi Slave Labor: Perpetrators and Victims,’ which runs at the Wiener Holocaust Library through the end of October, explains how integral forced workers were in Germany’s wartime economy
By Robert Philpot
Victor Urbancic conducts a makeshift orchestra in Reykjavik, Iceland, sometime after World War II. (Courtesy Árni Heimir Ingólfsson via JTA)
August 12, 2026, 4:02 am
How 3 Jewish refugees from the Nazis built Iceland’s classical music scene from scratch
Closed borders and antisemitism made the country’s musical genesis story all the more unlikely, but as a newly translated book shows, perseverance and luck helped make history
By Jenna Gottlieb
The "Miked" or “M” room, a secret World War II British intelligence listening facility, is pictured inside the new Trent Park Museum, after its recent opening in Enfield, north London, on July 29, 2026. (Henry NICHOLLS/AFP)
August 5, 2026, 10:29 am
New museum opens at UK mansion where captive Nazi officers were spied on to glean secrets
‘Listeners,’ mostly Jewish refugees, transcribed conversations of high-ranking POWs during World War II who were lulled by comforts to disclose intel that was used against Germany
By AFP
Aerial view of the excavation area and the Great Synagogue of Vilna (Rytis Tamulynas, Vilna Great Synagogue and Shulhoyf Research Project)
August 4, 2026, 10:22 pm
Buried for 70 years, Vilna’s Great Synagogue reveals heart of pre-WWII Jewish community
First-ever excavation of prayer house, which served as spiritual center of Lithuanian Jewry before being destroyed by Nazis and Soviets, uncovers platform for reading Torah and other remains
By Zev Stub
Serge Klarsfeld, president of the Association of Sons and Daughters of Jewish Deportees from France, speaks at a ceremony commemorating the Jews who were rounded up at Vel d'Hiv in 1942 and deported to Nazi concentration and death camps, on July 19, 2026. (Screenshot via CNEWS on YouTube)
July 19, 2026, 3:50 pm
France commemorates 1942 roundup of Jews, after plaque honoring rescuers defaced
Deputy minister vows to restore memorial honoring family that saved 13-year-old from deportation when 13,152 Jews were rounded up at Vel d’Hiv and sent to Nazi camps
By AP
Psoy Korolenko, left, and Anna Shternshis, right, collaborated on "Yiddish Glory: The Silenced Songs of World War II." (Photo and design by Dan Rosenberg via JTA)
July 18, 2026, 10:45 am
Lost Holocaust music, nearly erased by Stalin, goes on tour in Asia
Tour through Seoul, Shanghai, Hong Kong and Beijing plays Yiddish music rescued by Moisei Beregovsky, a Soviet Jewish ethnomusicologist, and rediscovered in the 1990s
By Shira Li Bartov
An undated photo of Dr. Rafael Medoff, founding director of The David S. Wyman Institute for Holocaust Studies in Washington, DC, teaching high school students. (Courtesy)
July 14, 2026, 11:45 pm
Author says US publisher nixed Holocaust book after he refused to condemn Israel
Dr. Rafael Medoff says editor at Dark Horse Comics demanded book on Nazi genocide include anti-Israel genocide charges
By Luke Tress
Banners reading 'I do not apologise for Jedwabne, let the perpetrators apologise' and 'Finish the exhumation, put an end to the slanders against Poles, the Jedwabne lie', with cut-out figures depicting Poland's Chief Rabbi Michael Schudrich and former Polish presidents are seen next to a crucifix set up at a gathering of far-right supporters who question the guilt of Polish citizens for the massacre in Jedwabne, on the sidelines of an official ceremony at the Jedwabne massacre monument honouring the memory of the town's Jewish residents murdered on July 10, 1941 by their Polish neighbours, in Jedwabne, north-eastern Poland, on July 10, 2026. (Photo by Wojtek RADWANSKI / AFP)
July 10, 2026, 8:16 pm
Polish nationalists protest commemoration of Nazi-era Polish massacre of Jews
A thousand protesters, denying locals’ guilt, object to ceremony marking anniversary of 1941 Jedwabne massacre, when Polish farmers locked 300 Jews in a barn and set it on fire
By Katarzyna SKIBA
The Hasmonea Lwow team in 1924. Zygmunt Steuermann is standing on the far left. (Public domain)
July 4, 2026, 3:43 pm
‘Digging Deep’ for legacies, author finds missing Jewish soccer players killed in Holocaust
David Bolchover’s dark detective journey unearths a star footballing ‘team’ whose memories were erased by the Nazis, and shows that the dearth of Jewish greats in the sport today is no accident
By Lianne Kolirin
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