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פסל הריקוד בחצר מוזיאון גאורג קולבה בברלין

Berlin museum to return Nazi-looted sculpture to heirs of Holocaust victim

The sculpture 'Dancing Girls Fountain,' valued at about $1.2 million, will be transferred from a Berlin museum to the heirs of Heinrich Stahl, with the museum recognizing it as cultural property looted due to Nazi persecution

Itamar Eichner | 02.23.26

היטלר לצד גרינג, בימים אחרים. המברק השפיע עליו מאוד

How paper restorers aided the Nazi hunt for Jewish ancestry during the Holocaust

Oxford research reveals how book restorers and binders were recruited in the 1930s and 1940s to make church records legible, enabling Nazis to trace Jews by ancestry, including Christians married to Jews and descendants of converts to Christianity

ynet | 02.22.26

An end to the Holocaust as a metaphor

'The Grey Zone' is a brutal examination of Auschwitz through Jewish prisoners forced into moral collapse, violent survival and doomed resistance, rejecting heroism and comfort while confronting how Holocaust memory, cinema and Jewish identity are distorted or erased

Liran Friedmann | 02.22.26

Hidden pregnancies, miraculous births: the untold story of the Auschwitz babies

Three Jewish women sent to Auschwitz in 1944 hid their pregnancies from the Nazis, survived forced labor camps and death trains, and gave birth just before liberation — now their 80-year-old children recount the miracle that saved their lives

Itamar Eichner | 02.17.26

אדריאנה טורק בילדותה עם אחיה, לצד תמונתו של אביה

She thought her family was killed in the Holocaust — until one DNA test revealed the truth

A MyHeritage DNA test led Adriana Turk, 74, to at least 50 living relatives worldwide, uncovering Holocaust survival stories and bringing unexpected closure after decades of loss

Yogev Israeli | 01.29.26

Russian missile strike destroys Holocaust memorial in Ukraine’s Sumy region

The memorial was built in 2021 by the United Jewish Community of Ukraine with local authorities and was damaged in a Russian missile attack on Bilopillia that also hit a historic former ghetto building

Itamar Eichner | 01.28.26

'Hurtful, disrespectful and wrong': BBC Holocaust coverage draws sharp criticism

BBC broadcasts marking International Holocaust Remembrance Day drew sharp criticism after referring to 'six million people' murdered by the Nazi regime without identifying Jews as the primary victims, prompting warnings of distorted history and calls for full accountability

ynet | 01.28.26

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks on Monday, January 27, 2026

Netanyahu warns of 'World War Jew' as global leaders gather in Jerusalem

Leo Terrell, senior counsel and chair of the U.S. Department of Justice Task Force to Combat Antisemitism: 'Fighting antisemitism is not a Jewish issue'

Maayan Hoffman, ILTV | 01.28.26

On Holocaust Remembrance Day, Romanian ambassador warns history can repeat itself

Romanian Ambassador to Israel Radu Ioanid: 'Speak your conscience and don’t make compromises'

Maayan Hoffman, ILTV | 01.28.26

Holocaust Remembrance Day tragedy: lone survivor freezes to death in Kyiv

Yevgenia Besfamilny, who survived the war in Ukraine as a child, was found frozen to death in her apartment during an extreme cold wave and prolonged power and water outages, her body discovered only after a burst pipe flooded the building

Itamar Eichner | 01.27.26

השלט בכניסה למחנה הריכוז וההשמדה אושוויץ

How Iran has used Holocaust denial as a political tool

Opinion: In 2005, Iran began openly denying the Holocaust, arguing that without it there is no justification for Israel; on this UN-designated day, it is vital to understand that denial and stand against it

Dina Porat | 01.27.26

חיילים סובייטים עם ניצולי מחנה הריכוז וההשמדה אושוויץ, לאחר שיחרורו בשנת 1945

Holocaust remembrance shifts toward rescuers, raising concern over how history is being framed

A Tel Aviv University study finds more countries centering Holocaust memorials on Righteous Among the Nations, prompting scholars to warn that focusing on rescuers without context risks blurring the historical reality

Itamar Eichner | 01.27.26

ניצולי מחנה הריכוז וההשמדה אושוויץ עוברים בשעריו עם שחרורו, פברואר 1945

Worrisome ignorance: only half of Brazilians know about the Holocaust

Only about half of respondents correctly identified the Holocaust as the Nazi extermination of six million Jews

Hana Nusbaum | 01.27.26

תמונה שהופצה ברשת. הסיפור אמיתי, התמונה מזויפת

AI-generated Holocaust images pose a new threat to historical truth and visual memory

Opinion: Synthetic images created by artificial intelligence risk blurring archives, amplifying visual clichés and eroding how future generations understand the Holocaust and its documented reality

Prof. Tobias Ebbrecht-Hartmann | 01.27.26

מוזיאון חבלי הצלה להוקרת יהודים שהצילו יהודים

Saving Jews as Jews: a new museum spotlights Holocaust rescuers long left unrecognized

While Righteous Among the Nations are firmly rooted in Holocaust history, Jews who risked their lives to save other Jews were long sidelined; a new museum challenges that narrative and asks whether their heroism was truly taken for granted

Yaniv Pohoryles | 01.27.26