National Archives

This undated photo made available by David Deri, the director of the documentary series, 'The Ancestral Sin,' shows photographs of Masud Deri, left, and Masud Deritaken the day they immigrated to Israel in March 1963. (Courtesy of David Deri via AP)

April 18, 2018, 3:22 am

Israeli TV series exposes raw wounds from ethnic Jewish divide

‘The Ancestral Sin’ shows racist attitudes of European-born leadership to Middle Eastern and North African immigrants

By Tia Goldenberg

A World Jewish Congress meeting on North African Jewry in 1952. (Wikimedia Commons via JTA)

March 25, 2018, 6:45 pm

Amid racism claims, state to open archives on Jewish North African immigration

PM makes records accessible following TV series documenting systematic abuses against Moroccans in early years of Israel

By TOI staff

Volunteers attempt to recover Iraqi Jewish archival material from the flooded basement of the Mukhabarat, Saddam Hussein’s intelligence headquarters, 2003. (Harold Rhode, Courtesy of the US National Archives)

September 8, 2017, 11:06 pm

Despite protests, US to return trove of Jewish artifacts to Iraq

Historic Iraqi Jewish Archive had been found in flooded basement of the Iraqi secret services headquarters in Baghdad after Second Gulf War

By Josefin Dolsten

Then-prime minister Levi Eshkol, center, and future prime minister Menachem Begin, right, greet troops in the Sinai Peninsula following the Six Day War on June 13, 1967. (GPO)

May 18, 2017, 3:42 pm

After Six Day War, cabinet debated West Bank’s future – and Charles De Gaulle’s nose

National archives release transcripts from 1967 cabinet meetings, showing the intense discussions and petty squabbles before, after and during the conflict

By Judah Ari Gross

A picture taken just after the liberation by the Soviet army in January 1945 shows a group of children wearing concentration camp uniforms behind barbed wire fencing in the Auschwitz Nazi concentration camp. (AP Photo/File)

April 3, 2016, 7:52 pm

Freed from Auschwitz, UK survivors seeking reparations found a wall instead

Newly unveiled archives show British officials exhibited almost no compassion for Holocaust survivor applicants to a £1m. compensation fund jointly administered with West Germany

By Jenni Frazer

January 6, 2016, 8:20 pm

Who should keep Iraqi Jewry’s archives, saved from Saddam, now on tour in US?

The future of a unique collection, salvaged in a ‘Monuments Men-style’ rescue from a secret police HQ in Baghdad, 2003, is up for grabs

By Rich Tenorio

Sir Basil Zaharoff, the arms dealer, one of the richest men in Europe, is seen on the streets of Monte Carlo, February 3, 1931. (AP Photo)

November 30, 2015, 2:30 pm

A scandal of international proportions comes out of the vaults

The real-life WWI political intricacies of Sir Basil Zaharoff — a man once known as ‘the wickedest man in Europe’ — are the stuff of Hollywood legend

By Jenni Frazer

A young Jewish refugee and her Chinese girlfriends in Shanghai during World War II (photo credit: Courtesy Shanghai Jewish Refugees Museum)

November 23, 2014, 8:51 pm

National Archives opens postwar Shanghai visa records

20,000 Jews fled to China from the Holocaust and many then applied at the US consulate to travel to America

By JTA

Centuries-old books and documents from the Iraqi Jewish archive await preservation. (photo credit: Courtesy The National Archives)

March 10, 2014, 6:43 am

Battle over Iraqi Jewish archive heads to US House

Jewish groups and Iraqi Jews around the world oppose the planned return of centuries-old texts and documents to Iraq

By JTA

Thousands of waterlogged Jewish books and documents shortly after their discovery in a flooded basement of Saddam Hussein's former intelligence headquarters, May 2003. (Photo credit: courtesy The National Archives)

November 13, 2013, 6:13 am

Don’t give Baghdad trove of Jewish artifacts, groups urge US

Over 40 Jewish organizations write letter urging Washington not to return Jewish documents recovered from Iraqi basement in 2003

By TOI staff and Ben Zehavi

November 6, 2013, 12:41 am

Rescued from Saddam, Iraqi Jewish archive finally on display

Some of the thousands of Jewish items recovered by US troops from a flooded Baghdad basement have been painstakingly restored for public display. But should they return to Iraq next year?

By Ben Zehavi

Ireland's Jewish community is confronting troubling demographic trends, but its demise has been predicted before. (Vimeo screenshot)

March 17, 2013, 1:18 am

Irish Jews face uncertain future (as usual)

A community that produced a beloved Israeli president confronts dwindling numbers, but also a rich and largely peaceful history

By Renee Ghert-Zand

Inmates at the Buchenwald concentration camp, days after liberation. Famed author Elie Wiesel is second row from the bottom, seventh from the left, next to the bunk post. (US Army/US Defense Visual Information Center/Wikimedia Commons)

February 24, 2013, 1:12 am

Ceremony marks 20 years since Oscar-nominated sham

As Hollywood gathers for its glitziest moment, it’s worth recalling the Academy’s embrace of a Holocaust documentary exposed as a lie

By Mark Schulte

Former prime minister Golda Meir visits Kiryat Gat in 1970 (photo credit: Lehava Center Qiryat Gat via the PikiWiki - Israel free image collection project)

December 4, 2012, 9:50 pm

Chicken soup a la Golda Meir

National Archive releases former prime minister’s recipe

By Aaron Kalman

Holocaust survivor Michael Pupa standing next to his childhood photo in the "Attachments" exhibit at the National Archives in Washington, DC. (photo credit: Earl McDonald for the National Archives/JTA)

June 24, 2012, 2:31 pm

Michael Pupa finally reveals his harrowing Holocaust journey

After his immigration to the US as a 12-year-old orphan, Pupa had sealed off his past. Now, with his immigration documents on display, his descendants are learning their tragic family history

By Zach Silberman