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Holocaust & Holocaust Survivors

News about Holocaust survivors, financial reparations and history pertaining to World War II and the Holocaust

Jews being deported to their deaths by the Slovakian government after it signed an agreement with Germany in March 1942. Credit: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.

Israel OKs budget to collect Shoah survivors’ visual testimonies

"We will pass their memories on to coming generations," Netanyahu said.

September 28, 2023

A memorial at Babi Yar in Ukraine, the site of a September 1941 massacre carried out by German forces and Ukrainian collaborators during their campaign against the Soviet Union in World War II. Credit: Meunierd/Shutterstock.

The dark legacy of Babi Yar

We must remember not only the Jews who were slaughtered but the millions of Jews who were never born.

September 27, 2023

Prime Minister of Armenia Nikol Pashinyan. Source: kremlin.ru

An Armenian leader’s false Holocaust analogy

The American Jewish community must condemn Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan’s comparison of the situation in Karabakh to Hitler’s ghettos.

September 20, 2023

Pope Pius XII on the veranda at St. Peter's Basilica in Rome after his election, March 2, 1939. Credit: Brazilian National Archives via Wikimedia Commons.

‘Detailed information’ about Holocaust provided to Pope Pius XII in 1942

The letter, to be published in a forthcoming book, “undercuts” the Vatican’s suggestion that it hadn’t been able to verify Nazi atrocities at the time.

September 19, 2023

St. Peters Basilica in Vatican City, Rome, on Aug. 17, 2016. Credit: Nati Shohat/Flash90.

Vatican beatifies Polish family killed for protecting Jews during the Holocaust

The Ulmas “represented a ray of light in the darkness,” Pope Francis said in a public address.

September 14, 2023

The Auschwitz-Birkenau Concentration Camp in Poland on May 10, 2017. Photo by Isaac Harari/Flash90.

Israeli Air Force marks 20 years since symbolic flyover of Auschwitz

On Sept. 4, 2003, three “Eagle” (F-15) IAF planes flew over the former Nazi-run extermination camp.

September 5, 2023

Yad Vashem chairman Dani Dayan. Photo by Alex Kolomoisky.

Coalition not planning to remove Yad Vashem chair Dani Dayan

Senior Israeli officials reportedly said that the issue is "off the table" following a public outcry over the alleged efforts.

September 4, 2023

A Jewish graveyard in Bavaria, Germany. Credit: Andreas Zerndl/Shutterstock.

Bavarian official has no recollection of youthful antisemitism

There are calls for Hubert Aiwanger, the deputy prime minister of Germany’s largest state, to resign.

September 1, 2023

The Florida writer and educator Merle Saferstein. Credit: Courtesy.

In new book, Holocaust education ‘pioneer’ shares survivors’ stories

Merle Saferstein combed through thousands of pages of her journals to find vignettes from the lives of Holocaust survivors she interviewed that could best help contemporary readers.

September 1, 2023