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המפגש של אדריאנה טורק ורענן גדרון בנתב"ג

‘Here’s my long-lost cousin’: Australian woman discovers family in Israel

Adriana Turk, 74, believed her father’s European family had been wiped out in the Holocaust; after losing her brother and taking a DNA test, she discovered relatives she never knew existed and traveled to Israel for an emotional reunion

Roy Rubinstein | 08.25.26

She fled Nazi Austria at 12. At 99, she is returning to the station where she said goodbye

Gabriele Keenaghan fled Nazi-ruled Austria at 12 and never saw her father again; as she approaches 100, she is returning to Vienna’s Westbahnhof for the first time since the journey that saved her life

ynet | 08.25.26

Haredi protesters' sign desecrated the memory of my Holocaust survivor father and my fallen soldier son

I wish that I could say that the young men did not understand what the sign said, but the phrase also appeared there in Hebrew, accompanied by photos of haredi Jews being killed by the Nazis. The meaning was perfectly clear.

Marcy Oster | 08.13.26

83 years later, woman who saved Jewish baby in Holocaust named Righteous Among the Nations

Ephraim Kochba learned only years later that his biological parents were murdered and that Christian foster mother Jacqueline Mintz had protected him in the Netherlands, documenting his childhood in a diary he would eventually receive

Itamar Eichner | 08.11.26

Teen visits Austria’s Mauthausen concentration camp wearing shirt with Palestinian flag

A young Jewish woman confronted a student at Austria’s Mauthausen concentration camp memorial after he arrived wearing a 'Free Palestine' shirt featuring a Palestinian flag and an illustration identified as a terrorist

ynet | 08.07.26

Workers recover part of the Oyneg Shabes Archive from beneath the ruins of the former Warsaw Ghetto after World War II. The clandestine collection of nearly 35,000 documents was buried by Jewish historians to preserve a firsthand account of the Holocaust

Warsaw Ghetto’s secret archive comes to New York

Museum of Jewish Heritage exhibition marks 80 years since the Oyneg Shabes Archive was recovered, showcasing original diaries, letters, children’s writings and the milk cans used to hide them

ynet Global | 08.07.26

As survivor generation dwindles, Holocaust memory faces new test in age of AI

Claims Conference event warns that as survivor testimony fades, artificial intelligence could distort history even as it offers new ways to engage younger generations

ynet Global | 08.02.26

‘Hijacked Holocaust memory’: Pro-Palestinian groups seek to bar Israeli envoy from Holocaust ceremony

Parties, neighborhood councils and activist groups demand that Ambassador Zvi Aviner Vapni be removed from a ceremony honoring 6,790 Rotterdam Jews deported in 1942; Dutch Jewish organizations accuse them of ‘hijacking’ Holocaust memory for a political agenda

Itamar Eichner | 07.23.26

‘I didn’t want death to have the last word’: How Yiddish became Erri De Luca’s answer to the Holocaust

The acclaimed Italian writer reflects on translating the Bible, learning Yiddish after the Holocaust, his enduring connection to Israel and why, in his seventies, he believes the best years of his life are still unfolding

Hadar Galron | 07.20.26

Israeli-American architect transforms Holocaust Museum LA, where memory meets life

Hagy Belzberg resigned a new Holocaust Story Center that blends into the park and surrounding community; the $70 addition includes a hologram theater of Holocaust survivors who 'talk' to the audience and space for 25,000 exhibits

Ayala Or-El, Los Angeles | 07.19.26

Dark Horse cancels Holocaust cartoon book after author rejects demand to condemn Israel

Dr. Rafael Medoff says an editor conditioned publication on criticism of Israel, Netanyahu and Trump; the publisher denies the claim and says the project was dropped for commercial and scheduling reasons

Daniel Edelson, New York | 07.12.26

הלאומן הפולני גז'גוז' בראון מציב אנדרטה ועליה שקרים בקשר לאחריות לטבח

'The Jedwabne lie': Polish nationalists protest memorial for Jews murdered by neighbors

Jewish leaders, politicians and citizens marked the 1941 massacre of hundreds of Jews by their Polish neighbors, while far-right activists insisted only the Nazis were responsible; Poland’s chief rabbi urged the country to confront its past

AFP | 07.11.26

Italy advances landmark Holocaust art restitution bill

Legislation would create Italy’s first formal process to return art and cultural property looted under Fascist and Nazi persecution

ynet Global | 07.09.26

They Gave Us Hope Again – Pregnancy and Birth in the Kaufering Camp, Dachau

Holocaust exhibit in Brazil tells story of seven babies born in Nazi camp

São Paulo’s Catavento Museum hosts 'They Gave Us Hope Again,' an exhibition tracing the survival of Jewish infants born at Kaufering in the final months of World War II

ynet Global | 07.09.26

Elie Wiesel’s hidden world of letters, loss and friendship

Unpublished letters, a deep friendship with Primo Levi, conversations with Albert Camus and Allen Ginsberg’s original ‘Kaddish’ manuscript reveal a new portrait of Wiesel, the Nobel laureate who stood at the center of Jewish and world culture after the Holocaust

Yoel Rappel | 07.09.26

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