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‘My grandmother said we had no Nazi ties. A blatant lie’: Files expose German family secrets

Newly accessible US archive records have sent hundreds of thousands of Germans searching for relatives in Nazi Party files, while new research reveals how children and teens took part in antisemitic violence, harassment and denunciations

Zeev Avrahami | 05.27.26

‘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

סטנלי פישר (משמאל) עם מרווין קארש בשנה שעברה

Stanley Fisher, British Jewish WWII veteran who helped liberate Bergen-Belsen, dies at 101

Fisher, a Jewish soldier in the British Army, took part in the Normandy invasion and was later posted to Germany; for years, he kept silent about the horrors he witnessed

Itamar Eichner | 04.30.26

Holocaust survivors, 87 and 94, make aliyah: 'Antisemitism frightens me more than sirens'

Penina Zeitchik and Helen Charash, who fled the Nazis as children, fulfilled a lifelong dream by immigrating from the United States to Israel, saying the security situation did not deter them: 'I feel safe — everything pales in comparison'

Yogev Israeli | 04.14.26

Jewish-American WWII hero Theodor Bachenheimer immortalized in rare comic book

Daring Jewish-American soldier Theodor Bachenheimer repeatedly posed as a German to evade capture before being killed in 1944; a year later, his story lived on in Real Life Comics, now revealed for Holocaust Remembrance Day

Gilad Cohen | 04.13.26

The Jewish lover of Benito Mussolini

Margherita Sarfatti, a Jewish art critic and writer, played a key role in shaping Benito Mussolini’s ideology and rise to power — before being cast aside under fascist racial laws and forced into exile

Amir Kaminer | 04.01.26

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

Air raid sirens and women’s voices: why Virginia Woolf’s essay still resonates in wartime Israel

Virginia Woolf wrote ‘Thoughts on Peace in an Air Raid’ during the London Blitz less than a year before her death — an essay centering women excluded from war decisions, strikingly relevant today, yet far from pacifist

Bacol Serlui | 03.12.26

Russia to mark ‘Soviet genocide’ by Nazis, Holocaust not mentioned

President Vladimir Putin signed a law designating April 19 as a memorial day for victims of the so-called Soviet genocide, a move critics say blurs the Holocaust and ignores the unique genocide of the Jewish people

Itamar Eichner | 01.05.26

Jewish pilot killed in China in 1943 laid to rest in US; Soil from Israel poured into his grave

The plane of First Lieutenant Morton Scher, who served in the US Army, was shot down in an air battle over southeastern China; After his remains were found last year, the Jewish pilot was laid to rest in South Carolina

Itamar Eichner | 12.25.25

רות ברון משמאל ליד דגם של מכונת פענוח של האניגמה

Jewish codebreaker who helped crack Nazi Enigma, Ruth Bourne, dies at 99

Baron served in Britain’s wartime codebreaking unit under strict secrecy, operating early Enigma decoding machines; she was later honored by the British and French governments for her contribution

Itamar Eichner | 12.22.25

British Jewish sailor builds menorah from Nazi submarine fragment

83 years ago, a Jewish sailor in the British Royal Navy crafted a menorah from the battery of a sunken Nazi submarine; now on museum display, it stands as a symbol of hope in the darkest conditions

Gilad Cohen | 12.16.25

Remains of Jewish homes destroyed in World War II uncovered in heart of Berlin

Archaeological excavations in central Berlin reveal the remains of the homes of Jews who were dispossessed during the Nazi era - magnificent buildings and businesses that disappeared in bombings and reconstruction that left no trace of the community that lived there for centuries, and that was never compensated for the loss

Itamar Eichner | 12.10.25

This Jewish World War II story could change how Jews see October 7

ILTV Podcast: Author Aron Heller shares about his new book, 'Zaidy's Band'

Maayan Hoffman, ILTV | 12.07.25

Selma van de Perre, Jewish resistance hero and Holocaust survivor, dies at 103

Dutch-born Jewish resistance fighter risked her life carrying messages under false identity during World War II and later became a BBC journalist; she survived the Ravensbrück concentration camp and dedicated her life to Holocaust remembrance

ynet | 10.23.25

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