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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
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
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