Israel's Law of Return, now 70 years old, allowed thousands of non-Jewish Polish women to come over with their Jewish husbands. Some wished they had never come
Why did an American director decide to come to Israel, during a pandemic, to make a Hebrew-language film? Jake Paltrow - Gwyneth's brother - is on set in Jaffa, armed with face masks and using 16mm cameras to tell three true, riveting stories
How does genocide affect survivors' national and political identity? And how they relate to the perpetrators and their heirs? How Bosnian Muslims, targets of Europe's most brutal ethnic cleansing since the Holocaust, are grappling with these core questions
Hoping to let ordinary people reclaim part of history, archives release hundreds of letters from the time of Israel's independence war online
Earlier this month, a two-year audit of Facebook’s civil rights record found 'serious setbacks' that have marred the social network’s progress on matters such as hate speech, misinformation and bias
Name of Amos Steinberg, whose mother was murdered along with him and whose father survived and lives in Israel, uncovered during conservation work
A notebook with rabbinical rulings from the Bergen-Belsen refugee camp is considered primary evidence detailing victims' fate
Chair of Operations of the World Jewish Restitution Organizations said 'This is something to be dealt with... in cooperation with representatives of victims'
A massive embezzlement scheme ran undetected at the organization, which distributes hundreds of millions of dollars a year in restitution payments to Holocaust survivors, between 2000 and 2009
Shalev gave no reason for his departure, but it comes as the Israeli Holocaust memorial faces a financial crisis and damage to its reputation over historical inaccuracies
The Holocaust survivor, combat veteran and revolutionary thinker changed how the right wing was viewed in academic circles and warned of the end of democracy in Israel
Lifelong activist, also known for his pro-Palestinian positions, had kept a record of instances of police violence since 1968
Like many other survivors of the camps, my grandfather, who just passed away at the age of 96, never wanted his wartime suffering to define the rest of his, and our, lives
One survived Auschwitz, a death march and starvation. The other endured cold and hunger in a Siberian labor camp, then nearly died in a pogrom back in Poland. They both ended up in New York but were unable to say goodbye
The legislation allocates $10 million over five years to Holocaust education in the U.S. and provides for a centralized curriculum database
Plus, Momentum launches global campaign to pray for health care workers and environmentalists debate whether COVID-19 will have any impact on how people respond to the climate change crisis
BBC journalist Richard Dimbleby’s real-time report from the liberation of Bergen-Belsen provided graphic details of terrors that my gentle grandmother had spared us
The amazing saga of Larisa Breicher, now a 78-year-old New Yorker and the sole survivor of a 1942 massacre of 2,500 Jews in a remote Russian village
A historian embarks on a pioneering archival journey to discover the first time that someone used the number
Live online testimony by survivor disrupted with images of Hitler and anti-Semitic slogans, embassy says, voicing concern over Independence Day events next week
Recent Haaretz story on poignant wartime journal written by teen Jewish girl Judit Ornstein leads to surprising new discoveries — including how the diary ended up in Israel and the identity of a mystery man called 'Ephraim Gross' (Update: Gross passed away at 92 on Holocaust Remembrance Day 2020)
Holocaust survivors are passing away daily and the coming years are the last chance to hear directly from those who were in there. The coronavirus pandemic radically changed their plans for Remembrance Day
Forgiveness, a comforting narrative arc conforming to the expectations of majority Christian culture, is now sanctified as the key message of the six million murdered Jews of the Holocaust
Close to 400,000 survivors of the Holocaust are believed to be alive worldwide, and for many elderly Jews the coronavirus pandemic has dredged up feelings of fear, uncertainty and helplessness
There are no statistics yet as to how many Holocaust survivors have been infected by the new coronavirus, but Israel’s first reported COVID-19 fatality was 88-year-old survivor Arie Even
European victims of the COVID-19 pandemic include prominent Jews from Britain, Italy and France
A chance find sent writer Hadley Freeman on a near-two-decade quest to discover the truth about her Jewish family. She talks here about the resultant memoir, ‘House of Glass,’ and why she’s not expecting it to be published in Poland
Max Privler, who died last month, was 11 when he crawled out from under his father’s body and escaped a killing pit
A Polish resistance fighter enters the camp in order to reveal its horrors to the world. A fascinating, if incomplete story