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German Army soldiers next to a 'Fuchs' nuclear, biological and chemical detection tank covered with a decontamination liquid after a drill at the General Jaeger barracks in Sonthofen, southern Germany, November 19, 2001. (AP Photo/Diether Endlicher)
August 10, 2026, 7:58 am
In the army, again? 80 years after the Holocaust, Germany’s Jews consider conscription
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine mobilizes unprecedented support for military among young Jews, though many still can’t reconcile themselves with past crimes – or far-right bigotry today
By Joshua Schultheis
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
Charlie Scheidt and Kat Rohrer are the co-authors of 'Inheritance: Love, Loss and the Legacy of the Holocaust.'(Rutgers University Press via JTA)
April 22, 2026, 4:11 pm
Son of Holocaust survivors and granddaughter of a Nazi confront their separate inheritances
Charlie Scheidt and Kat Rohrer forge unlikely partnership to pen ‘Inheritance,’ a memoir about his family’s harrowing escape from the death machine her grandfather was committed to
By Andrew Silow-Carroll
Leo Borger's shop selling radios and musical instruments on Vienna’s Landstrasse Haupstrasse, in 1933, prior to being 'Aryanized' in the lead-up to the Holocaust. (Courtesy)
May 31, 2025, 10:16 am
Paper trail: How a series of ads in a WWII-era UK daily revealed a tragic family history
Julian Borger traced his father’s escape from post-Anschluss Austria via the Kindertransport by examining classifieds in The Guardian. He unravels that and similar stories in a new memoir
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
Members of the Bricha descendants group pose at the Bad Reichenhall army base, which was turned into a Jewish DP camp called Camp Tikwah. (Courtesy)
January 27, 2025, 9:30 pm
Descendants retrace Holocaust survivors’ treacherous, covert journey to pre-state Israel
Children of Jews who secretly traveled to the Jewish homeland with the ‘Bricha’ movement, some of whom were born along the way, revisit the long route and uncover buried histories
By Bernard Dichek
Karmela Waldman with her son Joel Waldman with Joel's new book, 'Surviving the Survivor,' in Toronto, May 2024. (Robert Sarner)
August 21, 2024, 1:19 am
True crime podcast by a Holocaust survivor and her son catapults them to unlikely fame
Karmela Waldman and her son Joel attract millions each month with their unique series ‘Surviving the Survivor.’ Now Joel has penned a book about their lives with the same name
By Robert Sarner
Two Holocaust survivor families on the Vineland, New Jersey-area poultry farm they jointly purchased in 1947. From left to right: Dina and Dorothy Liverant, standing next to a visitor, with Ruth, Bronia, and Nuchim Grin, Seth Stern's mother and grandparents. (Photo courtesy of Stern)
September 2, 2023, 3:47 am
How Holocaust survivors flocked to NJ to start a thriving poultry farming industry
Seth Stern’s new book ‘Speaking Yiddish to Chickens’ tells how his grandparents joined thousands of other Jews in a plucky venture as they rebuilt their lives in rural America
By Rich Tenorio
Jacqueline Kott-Wolle is the artist behind new exhibition 'Growing Up Jewish – Art & Storytelling.' (Courtesy)
May 5, 2023, 2:24 am
In new exhibit, artist shows American Jewish life can’t be painted in broad strokes
Second-generation Holocaust survivor Jacqueline Kott-Wolle grapples with a complex, beautiful and contradictory identity in ‘Growing Up Jewish,’ on show in NY through June
By Cathryn J. Prince
Edvard Munch, 'Dance on the Beach.' (Reinhardt Frieze). (Courtesy of Sotheby's)
February 24, 2023, 3:23 am
Heirs of Nazi-persecuted collector hail justice in auction of Edvard Munch painting
Prof. Curt Glaser sold ‘Dance on the Beach’ under duress in the 1930s. Now, the 1906 masterpiece is expected to fetch $15-25 million after a deal was struck with the current owner
By Robert Philpot
Group portrait of members of the Kalinin Jewish partisan unit (Bielski group) on guard duty at an airstrip in the Naliboki Forest, 1941-1944. (Courtesy of Photo Archivist, Archival Affairs Branch, The David M. Rubenstein National Institute for Holocaust Documentation, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum)
January 25, 2023, 5:34 am
Descendants of Bielski partisans take to stage and screen to show weighty legacy
Live in LA through Feb. 6, Jordan Bielsky performs saga of brothers who saved 1,250 Jews in WWII; other family members amplify ancestors’ heroism in film, exhibit and classroom
By Lisa Klug
Giuliana Schnitzler sits with her dog Lucy while displaying an image of her father, Peter Schnitzler, at her home in Vienna, Austria, on June 23, 2022. Her father was taken out of Vienna to the United States by his family at just under 2 years old in late 1938. (Raquel G. Frohlich)
December 8, 2022, 6:52 pm
No longer verboten: Descendants of Holocaust survivors seek Austrian citizenship
After a revision of Austrian citizenship laws, candidates don’t need to give up their native passports. Read about Giuliana Schnitzler, Julie Bronder and Amy Feineman’s paths there
By Raquel G. Frohlich
Becca Balint campaigning this year to represent Vermont in Congress in an undated photo. (Becca Balint for US Congress/via JTA)
September 19, 2022, 1:56 am
In Vermont, Becca Balint’s Congress run is inspired by her Holocaust survivor father
‘I grew up with the knowledge that people can be led astray when they’re scared,’ says the ‘Jew-ish’ candidate, who is backed by Sen. Bernie Sanders
By Ron Kampeas
Bad Reichenhall Mayor Christoph Lung (second from left) with a group of second-generation Holocaust survivors who came to see the Displaced Persons camps where their parents stayed in the immediate aftermath of the Holocaust, May 2022. (Alexander Vexler)
July 1, 2022, 10:15 pm
At former DP camps, children of survivors and Germans work through complicated pasts
Jews born in ashes of Holocaust visit picturesque towns where their parents saw postwar denazification of their persecutors’ society, find common bonds with Germans’ descendants
By Bernard Dichek
Ernie Grunfeld hugs his children, Rebecca, 12, and Danny, 9, at a news conference in Harrison, New York, July 21, 1993. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)
January 26, 2022, 6:04 am
The only known 2nd-generation Holocaust survivor in US sports leaves an NBA legacy
In his new book ‘By the Grace of the Game,’ former pro athlete Dan Grunfeld tells the story of his Jewish immigrant father who defied the odds to make basketball history
By Rich Tenorio
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