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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)
Yiddish Glory: The Silenced Songs of World War II
Lost Holocaust music, nearly erased by Stalin, goes on tour in Asia
By Shira Li Bartov
Tour through Seoul, Shanghai, Hong Kong and Beijing plays Yiddish music rescued by Moisei Beregovsky, a Soviet Jewish ethnomusicologist, and rediscovered in the 1990s
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
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
Robin Bigga-Piskernig, second from right, is interning as part of an Austrian program that sends youth abroad to learn and teach about the Holocaust. From left, art teacher Janet Lust Ganes, foundation president Olivia Mattis, two students from Lawrence High School and foundation administrator Matthew Spirn take part in an art exhibit dedicated to Sousa Mendes, a Holocaust rescuer. (Courtesy Sousa Mendes Foundation via JTA)
June 28, 2026, 4:25 pm
Austria once denied its Nazi past. Now it sends young people abroad to confront it
Instead of military service, Austrian volunteers can work in nonprofits around the world, helping preserve the memory of the Holocaust and its victims
By Stewart Ain
French President Emmanuel Macron delivers a speech during the the induction ceremony at the Pantheon for late French historian and resistance fighter Marc Bloch and his wife Simonne Vidal, in Paris, France, June 23, 2026. (Alice Sacco/Pool Photo via AP)
June 27, 2026, 4:21 pm
Jewish resistance hero’s French Panthéon entry sparks row over far right’s use of his legacy
Marc Bloch, historian and fighter executed by the Nazis, referenced by head of National Rally party, whose founders include a Holocaust denier and member of the Waffen-SS
By Shira Li Bartov
A Polish scout lights a candle in front of the monument of Treblinka World War II-era Nazi death camp on October 2, 2013 in Treblinka. (JANEK SKARZYNSKI / AFP)
June 27, 2026, 9:06 am
New Treblinka research uncovers forgotten role of women in 1943 death camp revolt
Apart from two female survivors, all testimony about Treblinka came from male inmates. In a new book, historian Chad S.A. Gibbs restores Jewish women’s overlooked place in camp resistance
By Matt Lebovic
A relative of Dimitris Vafeiadis kisses his personal belongings during a ceremony for the return of personal belongings of Greek prisoners from Nazi forced labor camps to their families, held as part of the international StolenMemory campaign, at the Greek foreign ministry in Athens on June 25, 2026. (Angelos Tzortzinis/AFP)
June 26, 2026, 6:52 am
Greek Holocaust victims’ belongings from Nazi camp returned to their descendants
Items from Neuengamme restituted with help of Greek students who helped track down families of Jews who were deported to the concentration camp
By Marina RAFENBERG
Notorious Nazi physician Josef Mengele as a young doctor, left, and the 'ramp' at Auschwitz-Birkenau in May of 1944, where Mengele sometimes selected inmates for life, death or 'experimentation.' (Public domain)
May 16, 2026, 11:40 am
Sealed files on Nazi ‘Angel of Death’ Mengele to be opened, Swiss intel agency says
Josef Mengele, who fled to Argentina, was never prosecuted for sadistic Auschwitz experiments despite possibly visiting Zurich after West Germany issued arrest warrant against him
By ToI Staff
Daniela Gerson is the author of 'The Wanderers.' (Kait Lavo via JTA)
May 16, 2026, 4:09 am
Author tracing family’s Holocaust survival finds partner’s ancestors took same path
Daniela Gerson says that like her grandparents, most of the 300,000 Polish Jews who lived through the war were not in camps, ghettos or forests, but in the mountains of Siberia
By Shira Li Bartov
Pallbearers escort the casket at the funeral of former ADL chief Abraham Foxman at Park Avenue Synagogue in Manhattan, New York, on May 12, 2026. (JTA)
May 13, 2026, 1:31 pm
Abraham Foxman laid to rest, in elegy for last generation of Holocaust survivors
Former ADL chief, who was hidden as a child in Poland by his Catholic nanny, said his life’s work combatting antisemitism was a duty to the children who perished, grandson recalls
By Andrew Silow-Carroll
Holocaust survivor Albrecht Weinberg poses at his home in Leer, Germany, on December 30, 2024. (FOCKE STRANGMANN / AFP)
May 12, 2026, 9:26 pm
Albrecht Weinberg, who survived several camps during Holocaust, dies at 101
Weinberg returned to Germany 14 years ago after living in New York, shared his experience with high school students; Israeli envoy to Germany pays tribute to ‘bridge’ with the past
By AP
This handout photograph taken in an undisclosed area and released by Arthur Brand on May 11, 2026, shows the painting 'Portrait of a Young Girl' by Dutch artist Toon Kelder, an art piece stolen from the world-famous Goudstikker collection by the Nazis, discovered in the house of the descendants of a notorious Dutch SS collaborator (Handout and Arthur BRAND / AFP)
May 11, 2026, 11:19 am
Art looted from Jewish collector hanging in home of Dutch SS leader’s family, sleuth says
Discovery made when descendant of Nazi collaborator revealed ‘Portrait of a Young Girl’ by Toon Kelder was displayed in relative’s hallway; theft has passed statute of limitations
By Richard Carter
Relatives pose for a photograph holding a Holocaust plaque in German reading "Johanna Berger, born in 1893, lived here; deported on Nov. 17, 1941, murdered on Nov. 25, 1941 in Kowno/Kaunas Fort IX," prior to the placing of the so called "Stolperstein," in front of her former home in Berlin, Germany, May 6, 2026. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)
May 7, 2026, 1:23 pm
As new Holocaust memorial stone laid in Berlin, relative says plaque serves as substitute for grave
Project initiator Gunter Demnig places ‘stumbling block’ for Nazi victim Johanna Berger; great-nephew says memorial ‘brings the family history to a certain conclusion’
By AP
A container installed near the site of the Jedwabne pogrom proclaims in Polish, "The earth doesn't lie." The container, installed in April 2026, promotes the narrative that Nazis, not Poles, killed the Jews of Jedwabne in 1941. (Screenshot via JTA)
April 18, 2026, 4:58 am
Polish town’s new ‘information center’ denies murders of Jews by local Poles in 1941
Family of Jewish man who survived the Jedwabne massacre is trying to get the new installation removed: ‘We call it a denial museum, because that’s what it is’
By Shira Li Bartov
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