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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.

Remembering the Holocaust: A call to preserve Jewish memory
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

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

A portrait of Friedrich Torberg, Jan. 1, 1970.

A lost novel from 1943 that predicted the Holocaust has been recovered


Nazi concentration camp guard, aged 100, starts trial in Germany

Prosecutors charged the man, a member of the Nazi party's paramilitary SS, with having helped along the deaths of 3,518 people at the Sachsenhausen concentration camp.

 An empty square is seen at the former Nazi concentration camp in Sachsenhausen on the 75th anniversary of its liberation by Soviet and U.S. troops, during the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) near Berlin, Germany, April 17, 2020.

German 96-year-old Nazi war crimes suspect detained after fleeing trial

Irmgard Furchner is accused of having contributed as an 18-year old to the murder of 11,412 people when she was a typist at the Stutthof concentration camp between 1943 and 1945.

A Nazi armband with a swastika displayed in the Deutsches Historisches Museum, Berlin, Germany

Setting the record straight on Ustasha Holocaust crimes - opinion

Given the general ignorance about the horrors of Jasenovac, I think it would be helpful to very briefly describe one of its commanders, to give insight into the type of people who built and ran it.

Victims of the Nazi-backed Ustasha regime killed at the end of the World War II lay on the ground surrounded by Ustasha soldiers near the Sava River in Croatia in 1945.

Poland 'reexamining' Israeli student trips to concentration camps

The Polish deputy foreign minister said the country would announce its next steps concerning the squabble with Israel.

Cards are placed between railway tracks in the former Nazi death camp Auschwitz as people take part in the annual "March of the Living" to commemorate the Holocaust, in Oswiecim, Poland, April 12, 2018.

Secret documents leaked about concentration camps on British islands

The Channel Islands were conquered by the Nazis in 1940 after then British Prime Minister Winston Churchill made the decision that they were of little strategic importance.

As part of the Atlantic Wall, between 1940 and 1945 the occupying German forces and the Organisation Todt constructed fortifications around the coasts of the Channel Islands such as this observation tower at Battery Moltke, Jersey

The shared history of anti-Jewish and anti-Asian hate

Japanese-American soldiers also rescued thousands of survivors of a Nazi death march nearby, caring for them until medical personnel could arrive.

WITNESSING THE destruction of the last hut at Bergen-Belsen two days after the concentration camp was finally evacuated, May 1945.

Germany won’t prosecute former concentration camp guard deported from US

German prosecutors said they had insufficient evidence to prosecute the 95-year-old man for the suspicion of involvement in Nazi war crimes.

Guard tower at Stutthof concentration camp

Writing poetry helps me process the unspeakable evils of the Holocaust

The poems written by Sutzkever and other poets in the ghettos and even in the Nazi death and concentration camps were their way of refusing to become dehumanized.

VISITORS WALK along the railway track at the main gate of the Auschwitz Birkenau concentration camp.

Canada's parliament motion says China's treatment of Uighurs is genocide

"We can no longer ignore this. We must call it for what it is — a genocide," Conservative lawmaker Michael Chong said.

Ethnic Uighur demonstrators take part in a protest against China, in Istanbul, Turkey October 1, 2020.

Google Doodle honors Fredy Hirsch, Zionist educator who saved Holocaust youth

He saved the lives of many Jewish children and provided many others with a glimpse of confidence and dignity in the hardest circumstances the world had ever known.

TEACHER AND Zionist youth movement leader Fredy Hirsch, who ran the children’s block in Auschwitz-Birkenau