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The Muslim who teaches Arabs about the Holocaust: 'At Auschwitz I saw darkness and blood'

When passing by Yad Vashem, Murad Awadallah didn't think this story had anything to do with him, but now he has a mission: to make memory accessible to Arab society and bridge gaps of unfamiliarity, suspicion and prejudice

Amir Kaminer | 04.13.26

Holocaust survivor’s hidden poems discovered decades later reveal life as partisan

Roni Dunitz discovered fragile papers after his father Mordechai’s death, with restoration revealing rare firsthand accounts of Jewish partisans’ lives in Belarus forests, preserved after months-long conservation work at Yad Vashem

Itamar Eichner | 04.12.26

Zikaron BaSalon expands global activity as Jewish communities confront rising antisemitism

Thousands of Zikaron BaSalon gatherings will mark Yom HaShoah worldwide, as communities confront rising antisemitism, campus hostility and declining numbers of survivors, shifting testimony to younger generations

ynet Global | 04.12.26

Global Jewish population at 15.8 million, still below pre-Holocaust levels, new data shows

Data released ahead of Holocaust Remembrance Day shows 85% of Jews live in Israel and the US, while numbers decline in Russia and France; Israel is home to 111,000 survivors, nearly a third aged 90 or older

Yaron Drukman | 04.12.26

A taste of memory: the dishes we still long for

A 70-year-old wedding photo leads food writer Nira Russo back to her family’s survival from the destruction of Chelm’s Jewish community during the Holocaust, and to the flavors that endured, returning to the table across generations

Nira Russo, Ruth Russo | 04.12.26

Is TikTok rewriting history? ‘ALL CAPS’ tackles Gen Z misinformation

From Auschwitz to TikTok, episode 3 of ‘ALL CAPS’ explores how misinformation and social media are reshaping Gen Z’s understanding of history, Israel and the Holocaust, as memory, narrative and truth collide in a rapidly shifting digital landscape

ynet Global | 04.12.26

דניאל לוז, שורד שואה שידליק משואה בטקס בקיבוץ יד מרדכי

'I am a Holocaust survivor twice — from France during World War II and from Be’eri in 2023'

Daniel Luz, 92, says he wants to see peace in Israel but doesn't think he will live to see it: 'My grandchildren will — that is what matters most'; On Tuesday, he will light a torch at the Holocaust Remembrance Day ceremony held at Kibbutz Yad Mordechai

Roni Green Shaulov | 04.12.26

From music student to mass murderer: now his German hometown Halle wants to understand how

In 1964, an Israeli historian named Shlomo Aharonson sat in a Baltic garden listening to the widow of Reinhard Heydrich - the architect of the Holocaust - describe her husband as a sensitive musician and devoted husband; eighty years later, the city where Heydrich was born is still grappling with what made him possible

Dr. Daniela Ozacky-Stern | 04.09.26

British private schools in Qatar 'whitewash' Holocaust, teach Mein Kampf, probe finds

State-approved textbooks used in British-run schools exclude Holocaust, include anti-Jewish content and Mein Kampf; Jewish groups call it morally indefensible and warn of impact on students

Itamar Eichner | 03.26.26

Official poster marking Holocaust Remembrance Day 2026

Holocaust Remembrance Day poster unveiled, highlighting Jewish family legacy

A figure embracing an absent form symbolizes loss and survival in Israel’s official Holocaust Remembrance Day poster, awarded to designer Yoav Kahana, grandson of a German Holocaust survivor saved by Righteous Among the Nations

Itamar Eichner | 03.19.26

Yad Vashem after dark: A French journalist’s night alone among Holocaust memories

French writer and journalist Laure Adler spent an entire night alone inside Jerusalem’s Yad Vashem museum for a literary project; hours among Holocaust testimonies left her reflecting on memory, October 7 and rising antisemitism

Tamar Sebok | 03.15.26

הפושע הנאצי הרברטס צוקורס בתמונה שצולמה בברזיל

How Mossad hunted ‘the Butcher of Riga’: Nazi war criminal found dead in a crate in Uruguay

Herberts Cukurs, a Latvian pilot who helped murder tens of thousands of Jews during the Holocaust, fled to South America after World War II; Nearly 20 years later, a Mossad team lured him to Uruguay and carried out an assassination

Oded Kramer, Itzik Shasho | 03.14.26

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

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