Concentration camp

Shin Bet head David Zini looking to cancel organization's Poland trips - report

The Poland trips are intended to give Shin Bet employees a first-hand look at concentration camps, and appreciate the magnitude and intensity of the Holocaust.

|ByTZVI JASPER
ISRAEL SECURITY Agency (Shin Bet) Director David Zini arrives to a Memorial Day ceremony at the Western Wall, Judaism's holiest site, in Jerusalem's Old City, April 20, 2026, as Israel commemorates its fallen soldiers and victims of terror.
Remembering the Holocaust: A call to preserve Jewish memory

Holocaust Remembrance Day: Honoring victims and celebrating Jewish resilience

On Yom Hashoah, objects, letters, and fragments of lives cut short remind us that the Holocaust was not only about death, but about vibrant life.

|ByLARA SUKSTER MOSHEYOF
Two people stand at a plaque at the Buchenwald concentration camp memorial near Weimar, Germany, Jan. 26, 2018.

Pro-Palestinian activists are banned from Buchenwald, where survivors vowed to fight for peace

Kufiyas in Buchenwald argued that their protest would honor the memory of Buchenwald’s victims together with all “victims of genocide and fascism.”

|BySHIRA LI BARTOV/JTA
A visitor stands in front of a watchtower behind a fence on the grounds of the former Nazi concentration camp Buchenwald near Weimar

Pro-Palestinian rally at Buchenwald memorial shut down by German authorities

The rally was slated for April 12, marking the 81st anniversary of Buchenwald’s liberation by US troops. But the city of Weimar said on Monday it would ban the event on the memorial grounds.

|BySHIRA LI BARTOV/JTA

Israel must reassess its handling of Holocaust school trips to Poland - editorial

Reaching an agreement with Poland is an opportunity to reassess how the Holocaust education trips are handled within Israel.

APRIL 14, 2023ByJPOST EDITORIAL
Jewish Youth from all over the world participating in the March of the Living seen at the Auschwitz-Birkenau camp site in Poland, as Israel marks annual Holocaust Memorial Day, on April 16, 2015.

We must keep the memory of the Holocaust alive - opinion

Memory must overcome the ravages of time. We must see photographs of the Holocaust period and read the accounts of those who lived through it.

MARCH 29, 2023ByRABBI ELI KAVON
A STAR OF DAVID placed at the center of the gate of a memorial that the survivors of Bavarian Jewry established in the Dachau concentration camp, just a few miles from Munich.

Eighty years on, Thessaloniki Holocaust survivor recalls cart of trampled bodies

Eighty-four-year-old Rina Revah from Thessaloniki is one of only 1,950 returned alive.

MARCH 20, 2023ByREUTERS
A man walks past a graffiti dedicated to the Holocaust in the northern port city of Thessaloniki

BDS group shares concentration camp photo, claims it’s a massacre of Palestinians

A BDS-affiliated organization tweeted that "the Palestinian Academy for Science & Technology calls on EMBO to relocate workshops from Israel, including the one at the site of the Tantura massacre."

FEBRUARY 16, 2023ByZVIKA KLEIN
Corpses in the courtyard of Nordhausen concentration camp.

Russia is building concentration camps, Polish PM claims

The Polish prime minister is the latest of many to accuse Russia of using concentration camps.

JANUARY 27, 2023ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
The barracks at Stutthof concentration camp after liberation.

New portrait collection showcases 90 Holocaust survivors who lived full lives

Van Sise is far from the first photographer to capture the faces of survivors in the decades following the end of the Second World War.

JANUARY 27, 2023ByJACKIE HAJDENBERG/JTA
An aerial view of Yad Vashem

Holocaust survivor, among last prisoners of Auschwitz, passes away

Mordechai Papirblat was a prisoner who worked in hard labor for a period of about 900 days until he managed to escape from a death march at the end of January 1945.

DECEMBER 28, 2022ByWALLA!
THE GATE to Auschwitz, photographed in January 2021, 76 years after the camp’s liberation: There are still countless Jews who say about the Shoah, ‘If this could happen, how can anyone still believe in God?’

What can the Uyghurs learn from Israel?

WORLD AFFAIRS: President of the Uyghur American Association visits Israel and has some interesting observations to share

DECEMBER 23, 2022ByHERB KEINON
Kuzzat Allay visits the Western Wall this week.

The Secretary of Evil: 97-year-old Nazi convicted for role in 10,500 murders

In what may be the last-ever Nazi trial, Irmgard Furchner has been found guilty for crimes committed at Stutthof Concentration Camp.

DECEMBER 20, 2022BySHIRA SILKOFF
Irmgard Furchner, a 97-year-old former secretary to the SS commander of the Stutthof concentration camp, is pictured at the beginning of her trial in a courtroom, in Itzehoe, Germany, October 19, 2021.

97-year-old Nazi secretary on trial speaks out for first time

Irmgard Furchner, who played a crucial role in the death of over 11,000 people, has sat in silence since her trial began in October 2021.

DECEMBER 9, 2022ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Irmgard Furchner, a 96-year-old former secretary to the SS commander of the Stutthof concentration camp, arrives in a wheelchair as her lawyers Niklas Weber and Wolf Molkentin look on at the beginning of her trial in a courtroom, in Itzehoe, Germany, October 19, 2021.