In preliminary phase of trial, court will have to decide whether Irmgard P., who was a minor when she served in the Stutthof concentration camp, can bear responsibility for the crimes committed outside her office
In a letter posted on Twitter, Ambassador Marek Magierowski writes that freedom of research should not override the right to defend someone's reputation
Do Jews 1941=Uighurs 2021? Who decides, and according to what criteria, which atrocities and crimes against humanity ‘deserve’ a Never Again campaign?
Maya Sarfaty tells Haaretz how she pieced together the story of the affair between the SS officer and the young Jew in her new award-winning documentary
Earlier this week, the president of the European Jewish Congress called on all countries in the EU to ensure that Holocaust survivors have access to coronavirus vaccines as quickly as possible
Many Holocaust survivors in the United States, Israel and elsewhere find themselves in a state of previously unimaginable isolation due to the coronavirus
Victims of coronavirus made up five percent of the 17,000 Holocaust survivors who died during the year, Israel’s Holocaust Survivors’ Rights Authority says ahead of International Holocaust Remembrance Day
The last heir of the disgraced House of Savoy, whose family had until now refused to apologize, attempts to atone for his ancestor's role in Mussolini's racial policies
Antony Blinken told the Foreign Relations Committee of his late stepfather’s escape from a concentration camp and rescue by U.S. troops at Tuesday’s hearing
Diaspora Affairs Minister Omer Yankelevich envisages using international corps of young Jewish volunteers to distribute the vaccines, blindsiding the Agency that co-owns the corps with the ministry
Some 3,440 survivors who are entitled to thousands of shekels a year are not receiving aid either because they are unable to submit the required forms or are unaware that they qualify
In the afternoon hours of May 24, 1948 an Egyptian plane circled over the dining hall of Kibbutz Yavneh, dropping bombs. Three were killed. There is no disputing that part. What happened next may never be fully known
In letter to President Rivlin, Marian Turski warned that Effi Eitam’s appointment would 'greatly undermine Yad Vashem’s authority'
Helen Fremont was in her 30s when she learned the truth about her parents. She paid a heavy price for revealing it to the world
German-born Abraham Grossman sang to displaced Holocaust survivors in Bavaria at the end of World War II and helped found the Negev city of Kiryat Gat
Opponents decry candidate Effi Eitam, an ex-lawmaker and IDF commander known for harsh anti-Arab remarks, as a ‘lightning rod’ for ‘haters of Israel, anti-Semites and supporters of BDS,’ unsuited to sensitive post at Holocaust authority
Amos Oz’s mother was one of thousands of Jews who fled the then-Polish city of Rivne in the 1930s and ’40s. A visit today finds a city erasing its storied Jewish past
Ruth Brandspiegel heard a familiar name called out in a Yom Kippur service held via Zoom, which turned out to be a close friend she met at a displaced persons camp in Austria
In 2018-2019, the Welfare Ministry had used only 30 percent of 30 million shekel budget allocated to help survivors on welfare
The approximately 240,000 survivors will receive two payments of $1,400 over the next two years
Call it the last stand of the ‘old guard’: Elderly protesters, some as old as 104, are joining demonstrations in their neighborhoods and demanding the prime minister’s ouster
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'