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One of the Holocaust's greatest escape sites may become a paid 'immersive experience'

Descendants of survivors are outraged after the sale of Belarus' Novogrudok labor camp, where one of the Holocaust's most daring escapes took place, to a private developer planning an immersive visitor experience; the developer says it will be a nonprofit Holocaust museum, not an attraction

Itamar Eichner | 06.03.26

Holocaust education comes to life in mixed reality

Claims Conference launches 'Benno’s Light,' an immersive project using VR and desktop access to preserve Holocaust survivor Benno Kern’s testimony for younger generations

ynet Global | 06.03.26

Handout photos released by Yad Vashem show educational exhibits at Holocaust remembrance facilities ahead of the planned opening of a new education center in Munich

Yad Vashem to open first Holocaust education center outside Israel in Munich

Center in the birthplace of the Nazi Party will serve Germany and neighboring countries, as Yad Vashem expands Holocaust education amid rising antisemitism and distortion

ynet Global | 05.28.26

Berlin police arrest man suspected of being an accomplice to Holocaust Memorial stabbing

Federal prosecutors say Khalaf A. encouraged the 2025 attack, in which a Syrian man later convicted of acting in the name of the Islamic State stabbed a Spanish tourist at Berlin’s Holocaust Memorial

Associated Press | 05.27.26

'October 7 was an act of Nazism': Polish director takes on Holocaust cinema

Michal Kosakowski has long gravitated toward dark subjects, especially the Holocaust; his sweeping new documentary Holofiction explores its portrayal on screen and will be shown at Docaviv 2026

Amir Kaminer, Venice | 05.26.26

‘We are all Jews’: the American POW who defied the Nazis to save his Jewish comrades

Captured in the Battle of the Bulge, Master Sgt. Roderick 'Roddie' Edmonds risked execution to protect Jewish POWs, later becoming the only American serviceman recognized by Yad Vashem as Righteous Among the Nations

Liran Friedmann | 05.25.26

Albrecht Weinberg, one of the last survivors of the Holocaust, sits in the Leer town hall in Leer, Germany, March 5, 2025

Albrecht Weinberg, a Holocaust survivor who returned to Germany in his 80s, dies at 101

Weinberg spent his final years recounting his survival of Auschwitz, Mittelbau-Dora, Bergen-Belsen and three death marches

Associated Press | 05.13.26

Swiss intelligence to open Josef Mengele file after decades of secrecy

The file may reveal whether the Auschwitz doctor was in Switzerland in 1961 and how authorities handled one of the world’s most wanted Nazi war criminals

Itamar Eichner | 05.04.26

Edith Eger, Holocaust survivor forced to dance for Mengele, dies at 99

Psychologist and author of The Choice turned her survival story into a message of healing and freedom, teaching that trauma cannot be changed but life after it can still be chosen

Iris Lifshitz-Klieger | 04.29.26

Part of an 18th-century Torah scroll hidden by Jews during the Holocaust discovered in Belarus home

The rare historical artifact may have been hidden during a period of Nazi occupation and stored for decades in an attic; Experts say it dates back to the second half of the 18th century

Itamar Eichner | 04.20.26

Preserving the legacy: Transforming Holocaust care methodologies into national strategic asset

Opinion: As Holocaust survivors age and their numbers decline, their care models risk being lost; Israel must adopt this proven nonprofit expertise into national systems to address trauma, loneliness and rising social needs

Dr. Shoshi Bar-Eli , Masha Dashkov | 04.15.26

The 'uncle' who saved Mengele’s twin's — and barely spoke of it for decades

New PBS documentary recounts how Zvi (Erno) Spiegel, forced to work inside Josef Mengele’s Auschwitz experiments, protected children, saved lives and later led dozens of survivors to safety after the war

Oren Reiss | 04.14.26

When the last survivor is gone, can AI be trusted with Holocaust memory?

As eyewitnesses disappear, AI can preserve their voices and images with startling realism — but the same tools can also fabricate convincing false histories, raising urgent questions about truth, testimony and the future of Holocaust remembrance

Daniela Ginzburg | 04.14.26

Israel's ex supreme court president, holocaust survivor, warns: ‘Don’t assume it can’t happen here’

Aharon Barak recounts childhood escape from Nazi ghetto, links Holocaust trauma to legal philosophy; warns democracy must defend judges, calls for moral treatment of Arabs, says elections give him hope

Lihi Gordon | 04.14.26

How Nazi concentration camps weaponized dogs into a calculated system of fear, control and terror

Dogs accompanied prisoners at every moment in concentration camps — during selections, marches and forced labor — leaving lasting trauma, as evidence shows a system that turned fear into method, even forcing prisoners to build the kennels

Dr. Daniela Ozacky Stern | 04.14.26