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A tombstone marking the grave of a Jewish person. Credit: bernswaelz/Pixabay.
Remembering my dad, a Holocaust survivor, this Father’s Day
When I was growing up, Dad only spoke of his childhood around his older sisters or unless someone asked him a specific question. I had many.
Jennifer Krebs
June 12, 2025
Vandalism of the National Holocaust Monument in Ottawa on June 9, 2025. Credit: Courtesy of the Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs.
‘Disgusting, cowardly act’: Ottawa national Holocaust monument vandalized
“When you desecrate the Holocaust monument, it causes tremendous pain for the community,” Lawrence Greenspon, volunteer co-chair of the National Holocaust Monument Committee, told JNS.
Dave Gordon
June 9, 2025
Twenty-five U.S. military cadets and midshipmen participate in the Auschwitz Jewish Center Foundation’s American Service Academies Program in Poland, June 2025. Credit: U.S. Consulate General Krakow.
US military personnel travel to Poland for Holocaust-ed program
“By immersing these cadets and midshipmen in the history of Auschwitz and the Holocaust, we hope to inspire ethical leadership rooted in humanity and justice,” said the chairman of the Auschwitz Jewish Center Foundation.
June 9, 2025
Karol Nawrocki delivers a speech in Warsaw on Sept. 3, 2022. Photo by Jarosław Kruk via Wikimedia Commons.
Right-wing historian elected as Polish president
Karol Nawrocki was a key promoter of laws that prohibit speech blaming Poles for Nazis crimes.
Canaan Lidor
June 2, 2025
Six headstones for German Jewish World War I soldiers were changed in French cemeteries from Latin crosses to Stars of David due to the efforts of Operation Benjamin in May 2025. Credit: Anibas Photography/Operation Benjamin.
Six headstones of German WWI soldiers changes from crosses to Stars of David in French cemeteries
“If you had told me two years ago that I would feel this way, I wouldn’t have believed you,” Operation Benjamin board member Liz Steinlauf told JNS.
JNS Staff
May 28, 2025
Discovery of the salt mines used as a repository for art stolen by the Nazis between 1943 and 1945, in Altaussee, Austria, at the end of WWII. Credit: Lieutenants Kern & Sieber via Wikimedia Commons.
New bill aims to make it easier for survivors, heirs to recover Nazi-looted art
“The artwork wrongfully ripped from Jewish hands during the Holocaust bears witness to a chapter in history when evil persisted,” Sen. John Cornyn said.
JNS Staff
May 28, 2025
Women in the barracks of the newly liberated Auschwitz concentration camp, January 1945. Credit: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of National Archives and Records Administration, College Park, Md.
Auschwitz museum warns against fake AI images of victims
Fictionalized images could encourage Holocaust denial, museum deputy spokesman says.
JNS Staff
May 25, 2025
Nobuki Sugihara, the youngest son of Chiune Sugihara, who as Japanese consul in 1940 Kaunas, Lithuania, issued an estimated 2,140 transit visas, on his own authority and against his governments wishes, initially saving about 4,000 people, primarily Jewish refugees. Nobuki was at the Polish-Ukrainian border crossing at Medyka partaking in a fact finding and humanitarian mission with the Stephen Wise Free Synagogue of New York to help Ukrainian refugees who had just crossed the border on foot, April 26, 2022. Photo by Chuck Fishman/JCC Krakow/Getty Images.
Chiune Sugihara, a Japanese tzaddik
How one man saved many worlds, and how his family touched so many lives.
Rabbi Yossy Goldman
May 21, 2025
The Auschwitz-Birkenau Virtual Film Location delivers an authentic 1:1 digital replica of the German concentration and extermination camp available for filmmakers. Credit: Auschwitz.org.
Auschwitz launches digital replica of camp for filmmakers
The Auschwitz-Birkenau Virtual Film Location harnesses 3D-scanning technologies to preserve the site’s historical integrity.
JNS Staff
May 20, 2025