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Nazi-looted Kandinsky painting sells for over $42 million after return to Jewish heirs

Wassily Kandinsky's 1907 masterpiece 'The Colorful Life,' sold during the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands and displayed in a Munich museum for nearly 50 years, fetched £31.56 million at Christie's in London after its restitution to the heirs of its former Jewish owners in 2023

Itamar Eichner | 10.18.26

UN expert apologizes for false claims on Nazi camp term, origins of antisemitism

Francesca Albanese admits misreading Nazi camp term ‘Muselmann’ and wrongly claiming antisemitism originally meant hatred of all Semitic peoples after Yad Vashem accuses her of ‘historical revisionism’

Itamar Eichner | 09.29.26

ילדים ניצולי אושוויץ ביום שחרור המחנה בידי הצבא האדום, 1945

‘It was in every newspaper’: Britain knew of Holocaust mass murder by 1942

New exhibition draws on newspapers, BBC broadcasts, testimony and government archives to show how reports of the murder of European Jews reached Britain during the war, while also examining limits on refugees, rescue efforts and wartime antisemitism

ynet | 09.28.26

German town moves to ban new Holocaust memorial stones as conservatives join far-right AfD

Heidenau councillors want future brass plaques honoring Holocaust victims kept out of town streets and moved to a cemetery; Jewish leaders warn the plan would turn remembrance into forgetting as conservatives join the far-right AfD initiative

Zeev Avrahmi/Berlin | 09.25.26

Budapest synagogue closed since Holocaust reopens after decades spent storing old newspapers

The century-old Rákospalota synagogue was restored after decades as a Hungarian National Library warehouse; Rabbi Shlomo Köves says the Jewish community now aims to reclaim other synagogues nationalized after the Holocaust

Itamar Eichner | 09.22.26

‘My revenge is that the Nazis lost’: Israel’s oldest Holocaust survivor dies at 107

Yehuda Widawski survived Auschwitz and Nazi forced labor, immigrated to Israel in 1950 and later devoted decades to restoring Jewish cemeteries in Poland; he helped identify more than 3,000 graves and lit a torch at Israel’s 2012 Holocaust memorial ceremony

Shilo Freid, Itzchak Tessler | 09.14.26

Holocaust survivor 'appalled' by prospect of far-right in power in German state

Eva Umlauf, freed from Auschwitz at age 2, warns of dangers to minorities after AfD victory puts Germany’s far right within reach of state power

Reuters | 09.09.26

Holocaust rescuer who hid Aviva in her home honored as Righteous Among the Nations

Aviva Landau had given up hope of finding the family of Anna Neklaws, who hid her during WWII, until her granddaughter found them online; Anna was posthumously named Righteous Among the Nations; 'She cared for me like a daughter,' Landau says

Iris Lifshitz-Klieger | 09.09.26

Chinese criminals posed as Holocaust victims’ descendants to get German citizenship

Der Spiegel investigation uncovers at least 32 cases in which applicants allegedly bought fabricated Jewish family histories, with German citizenship already granted in about half

Zeev Avrahami, Berlin | 09.03.26

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

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