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Mauthausen concentration camp; Hirtenberg was one of its subcamps

Supermarket to be built on former women’s concentration camp site in Austria

The Hirtenberg camp held about 400 women, many deported from Auschwitz and forced to work in an arms factory; Austrian media say a logistics center and Lidl branch are planned for the site, drawing outrage from Jewish leaders and memorial officials

Itamar Eichner | 07.08.26

New online game teaches students to spot Holocaust denial and antisemitism

ShoutOut puts students inside a simulated social media feed as schools struggle to address how hate speech and Holocaust distortion spread online

ynet Global | 07.04.26

85 years after Iasi pogrom, Herzog warns: ‘Antisemitism in Europe is rising again’

About 15,000 Jews were murdered in the 1941 pogrom and death trains in Romania; at a ceremony for victims whose remains were recently found, Herzog said the moral foundation built after the Holocaust is weaker than at any time in 80 years

Itamar Eichner | 06.28.26

The personal belongings of four Greek Jews deported to Nazi concentration camps during the Holocaust were returned to their surviving relatives

Holocaust victims' belongings returned to families of Greek Jews more than 80 years later

High school students helped reunite Holocaust-era personal belongings stolen from four Greek Jews deported to Nazi concentration camps with their surviving relatives, more than 80 years after they were taken, as part of an international remembrance initiative

Itamar Eichner | 06.26.26

The 36 jerseys are no coincidence. The number equals twice 18, which in Jewish tradition represents the word Chai (חי) — “life” in Hebrew

‘Jerseys against hatred’: Holocaust museum showcases football’s stand against discrimination

The Brazilian Holocaust Museum is bringing together football kits from around the world in an unprecedented exhibition showing how football can be a field for social transformation, resistance and diversity

ynet Global | 06.13.26

מחנה העבודה בנובוגרודק והנצחת תוואי המנהרה

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

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