The Crime: Collaborating With the Nazis. The Punishment: Excommunication From Judaism

Was a Judenrat member a traitor to his people? A new study addresses a little-discussed chapter in Holocaust history, and recalls how Israel's early judicial system dealt with Jews who collaborated with Nazis

Haunted by Nazi Atrocities, This Holocaust Survivor Became One of Israel's Pioneer Vets

Kalman Perk escaped a death train and went on to found the anatomy and physiology department and the Koret School of Veterinary Medicine at Hebrew University

Holocaust Survivor Owes Her Life to a Nazi Officer’s Great Dane

Nina Dinar, 93, has loved dogs since childhood and that saved her in a Nazi labor camp in Poland

Who Is Chiune Sugihara? The Japanese Hero Who Saved 6,000 Jews From the Holocaust

Chiune Sugihara, a government official of samurai heritage, put aside career, family and reputation to do the right thing, which was to issue transit visas to Jews fleeing the Nazis

Last Survivor of First Auschwitz Convoy Dies at 96

Polish Kazimierz Albin 'saw it as his most important duty to speak about Auschwitz and his murdered fellow inmates,' International Auschwitz Committee says

8,000 Romanian-born Israelis to Be Recognized as Holocaust Survivors, Receive Compensation

Agreement on payment of benefits follows months of talks between Israel and Germany

Unearthed Headstones Shed Light on Macedonian Jewish Community Wiped Out by Nazis

Of 7,144 Macedonian Holocaust victims, only about 150 survived. A series of projects aims to lift the nearly extinct Jewish community of North Macedonia out of oblivion

Grammy-nominated Concert Brings Long Lost WWII-era Soviet Songs to Life in Israel

In its first performance in Israel, 'Yiddish Glory' played the lost songs of lost Jews in a nearly lost language

Holocaust Survivor Known for Forgiving Nazis Dies at 85 on Trip to Auschwitz

Eva Mozes Kor once told Haaretz: 'I forgave the Nazis not because they’re good people, but to free myself of the chains of the past and enable me to be a happy person'

Germany Extends Holocaust Compensation to Survivor Spouses

Berlin also increases social welfare service funding for survivors by 44 million euro

77 Years After He Was Killed by Nazis, 'ultra-Orthodox Janusz Korczak’ Honored in Krakow

Rabbi Dawid Alter Kurzmann now has a plaque to commemorate his accompanying of the orphans under his care to their deaths during the Holocaust

Mossad Agent Who Survived the Holocaust and Helped Incriminate Eichmann Dies

Michael Maor, who lost his parents in the Holocaust, broke into a Frankfurt office and photographed the papers that proved Nazi leader Adolf Eichmann’s guilt

The Story of the Jewish Child Who Survived Holocaust to Become a Billionaire Real Estate Baron

In a new film and biography, Billionaire Frank Lowy – who now lives in Tel Aviv – returns to the days when he was Pinchas Levy, a 13-year-old boy whose resourcefulness saved his family

Survivor Invites Ocasio-Cortez to Tour Auschwitz With Him After 'Concentration Camp' Comment

The Democratic lawmaker sparked controversy by using the term to refer to migrant detention centers in the U.S.

From Auschwitz to Rwanda: Why South Africa Has So Many Holocaust Museums

Three museums commemorating the Shoah face a unique challenge on a continent where 800,000 Tutsis were slaughtered 25 years ago

Leader of Sobibor Death Camp Rebellion Dies in Israel at 96

Of the 300 who attempted the perilous escape from Sobibor camp, only 50 eventually survived the Holocaust. Semyon Rozenfeld was one

Unrequited Love and Close Calls With Nazis: The Story Behind the ‘Anne Frank of Budapest’

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'

Israel Extends Lease on Subsidized Housing for Holocaust Survivors Set to Be Evicted

Decision to extend contracts by five years comes after elderly tenets protested ministry's decision to terminate agreement with private company that owns assisted living housing units

'Safe Haven'? What Israeli, Palestinian Scholars Think About Rashida Tlaib’s Holocaust Comments

Leading academics express confusion at Democratic congresswoman’s reading of events between Arabs and Jews in pre-state Israel, though some say reaction to her comments is overblown and politically motivated

Family of Righteous Among the Nations Let Into Israel Only After 10-hour Airport Grilling

Maria Blyshchyk's relatives, who wanted to visit descendants of Holocaust survivor saved by her, were allowed into the country only after inquiries by lawyer and Haaretz

Israel Cancels Plan to Evict Dozens of Holocaust Survivors After Haaretz Report

Forty-five Holocaust survivors and World War II veterans were set to be evicted after ministry decided to terminate its contract with the private company who owns assisted living housing units

‘Let Us Die at Home in Peace’: Israel Plans to Evict Dozens of Holocaust Survivors

Governmental lease ends in August, but the Immigrant Absorption Ministry hasn't found alternative housing for the elderly men and women, who say they 'will not agree to leave' ■ Immigration Minister Gallant has ordered the eviction plan halted

Opinion How the Nazis Destroyed a Golden Age of Jewish Soccer

Real Madrid, Torino, Bayern Munich, Benfica: Jews were pivotal in the development of European soccer. But then they were kicked into the concentration camps

U.S. Delegation Will Attend March of the Living for First Time

U.S. Ambassadors to Israel, Germany and Poland accompanied by special envoy to monitor and combat anti-Semitism will also visit Israel after the march

‘Anne Frank of Budapest’: Newly Discovered Diary Chronicles Jewish Girl’s Life in Nazi-occupied Hungary

No one knows how it ended up in an Israeli archive, but the freshly translated 1944 diary of teenager Judit Ornstein has drawn comparisons to the Holocaust’s most famous journal. A successful search for surviving family members in America has introduced them to a lively, literary young woman they never knew

Holocaust Remembrance Day | Extremists, Iran and Political Caricatures: Netanyahu Charts Dangers of anti-Semitism

At Jerusalem's Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial service, President Rivlin warned Israel not to form alliances with racist, anti-Semitic forces in Europe

The Holocaust Survivor Braving Cancer to March at Auschwitz, Perhaps for the Last Time

'I died 70 already years ago when the Germans murdered my whole family not far from here,' says Ed Mosberg who completed the March for the Living accompanied by two physicians

Holocaust Rescues: Countries and Communities That Prominently Resisted Nazi Efforts to Deport Their Jews

From Italy to Denmark to Albania, a look at those countries which helped rescue victims of the Holocaust

Opinion Give Everyone a Break With the Holocaust