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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

'My mother Is a hero': Decorated WWII veteran celebrates 100th birthday in Israel

Asia Mamadov fled Kyiv at the outbreak of the war, joined the Red Army at 16 and fought the Nazis until their surrender in 1945; she served in communication, observation and guidance roles, earning numerous medals for her wartime heroism

Israel Moshkovitz | 08.17.25

'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

Harold Terens gifts customized hats to his great grandchildren during his 102 birthday party Saturday, July 26, 2025, in Delray Beach, Fla.

At 102, D-Day veteran looks forward to a long-delayed bar mitzvah

World War II veteran Harold Terens, who turns 102 next month, plans to celebrate a milestone he missed in childhood—a bar mitzvah at the Pentagon—decades after surviving D-Day, outliving a secret mission in Iran and marrying on the beaches of Normandy

Associated Press | 07.27.25

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