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Swiss cosmetics company Weleda to investigate alleged ties to Nazi human experiments at Dachau

Weleda, known for its natural skincare products, will launch an independent probe after new findings suggest its creams were tested on concentration camp prisoners during WWII; the company says it fully condemns Nazism

Itamar Eichner | 09.14.25

Los Angeles Holocaust Museum faces backlash over online post linking ‘Never Again’ to Gaza

Holocaust Museum sparks backlash after pulling a post redefining 'Never Again' as a universal principle—then backtracks, claiming misinterpretation

Yogev Israeli | 09.09.25

Her family fortune was made by producing Zyklon B, now she will sail on a Gaza flotilla

Austrian heiress Marlene Engelhorn, whose family fortune traces back to producers of the gas used to exterminate Jews in the Holocaust, joins Gaza-bound flotilla in protest of Israel—sparking outrage over her stance given the Holocaust legacy behind the wealth she vows to redistribute

Ze'ev Avrahami, Berlin | 08.06.25

פשיטה בברלין על דירה של חשודים בתמיכה בחמאס

Vandals deface Holocaust deportation memorial in Berlin

Unknown individuals vandalize Berlin’s Putlitz Bridge Holocaust memorial with paint and tape, prompting a police investigation; site, marking deportation of over 32,000 Jews, has faced repeated antisemitic vandalism since its creation

Itamar Eichner | 08.05.25

The lives of hostages Evyatar David and Rom Braslavski are in danger, a report says

Reminiscent of starvation during the Holocaust: chilling report says hostages on verge of death

Medical report from Hostages and Missing Families Forum states: The Gaza hostages are on the verge of death from deliberate starvation by Hamas; Rom and Eviatar have lost about half of their body weight, their fat percentages have collapsed below 5%: they are 'living skeletons'; Report describes how they survive days without food, suffer from diseases and infections, and are in danger of physical and mental collapse in the face of captors who deliberately eat in front of them

Lihi Gordon | 08.04.25

שיא ברזיל לואיז אינסיו לולה דה סילבה נואם במסיבת עיתונאים עם נשיא צרפת עמנואל מקרון

‘Brazil is choosing to leave a club of democracies’: Experts warn of broader consequences behind Lula’s IHRA withdrawal

Brazil’s exit from the Holocaust Remembrance Alliance alarms Jewish leaders and watchdogs, who fear it signals deeper alignment with regimes hostile to democratic norms and Holocaust memory

Gabriel Colodro / The Media Line | 08.03.25

'I know the hunger': Holocaust survivors say hostage videos trigger memories of Nazi brutality

'Bread and thin soup—we ate grass out of hunger,' recalls Auschwitz survivor Naftali Fürst, saying footage of Evyatar David and Rom Braslavski took him back in time; 'When I saw Evyatar’s image, I could hardly breathe,' says survivor Devorah Weinstein

Iris Lifshitz-Klieger | 08.02.25

חברי "עדים במדים" לא הורשו להיכנס למחנה בירקנאו עם דגלי ישראל

Israeli delegation to Nazi death camp forced to remove national flags

IDF officer says delegation stopped at entrance to Auschwitz-Birkenau when Polish police demanded they remove Israeli flags, sparking outrage; 'It was humiliating'

Nina Fox | 07.31.25

German Holocaust denier Horst Mahler, co-founder of Baader-Meinhof Gang, dies at 89

Mahler served prison sentences for bank robberies and Holocaust denial, published an antisemitic manifesto and fled to Hungary before returning to Germany and being released in 2020 for health reasons; he died in a Berlin hospital

Associated Press | 07.28.25

Trivializing horror: Nazi analogies do not belong in Jewish discourse on Gaza war

Opinion: A growing chorus of Israeli critics is drawing Holocaust parallels to the Gaza war, sparking fierce backlash; Scholars and commentators warn that such comparisons distort historical truth and undermine both Holocaust memory and the complexity of today’s conflict

Shmuel Munitz | 07.21.25

Rabbis appeal for halt to Polish construction after Holocaust-era mass grave discovered

The Conference of European Rabbis is calling for immediate suspension of a Polish real estate project after uncovering evidence of a Holocaust-era mass grave; Activists demand DNA tests and legal recognition of the site as a Jewish cemetery to protect its sanctity

Itamar Eichner | 07.21.25

Fake jobs, real courage: How one Indian businessman saved Jews from the Nazis

Kundan Lal Gupta, an Indian entrepreneur with no ties to Europe, rescued 14 Austrian Jews during the Holocaust—creating fake firms, posting bogus job ads and issuing life-saving visas in a quiet, selfless act of heroism

Itamar Eichner | 07.16.25

Lithuania pays symbolic compensation for stolen Jewish property

Some 340 Holocaust survivors of Lithuanian descent or their heirs have received about €20,000 each from the government; One recipient says the sum 'barely scratches the bottom threshold of compensation and doesn’t come close to the property’s value'

Itamar Eichner | 07.15.25

‘I gave them back their voices’: Holocaust survivor marks 100th birthday at Yad Vashem

Moshe Abeles, born in Hungary in 1924, spent more than two decades volunteering in Yad Vashem’s historical archives, where he labeled and organized materials and assisted visitors searching for information about the Holocaust

Gilad Cohen | 07.10.25

Global Jewish population still trails pre-Holocaust numbers, study finds

While Jewish numbers rose in Israel and North America, declines in Europe and Africa have persisted, meaning Jews are now just 0.2% of the world and shrinking in multiple regions, according to a Pew study; 'It takes a long time to replace a third of the population. This is a reminder of how many people we lost in the Holocaust'

Itamar Eichner | 07.10.25

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