Holocaust

Ancient blood libels continue to shape modern antisemitism - opinion

Antisemitic conspiracy theories have deep historical roots and continue to resurface, driving prejudice and violence against Jews today.

The Simon of Trent blood libel: Illustration in Hartmann Schedel’s Weltchronik, 1493
Declassified documents about Nazi doctor Josef Mengele, who fled to Argentina after World War II.

Switzerland to release sealed files on Nazi doctor Josef Mengele - report

Activists have set up a pro-Palestinian camp on Hamburg's Moorweide, which a German court permitted over the objections of the city and Jewish community, May 10, 2026.

German court allows pro-Palestinian encampment in Hamburg park where Jews were deported by Nazis

Daniela Gerson is the author of "The Wanderers."

‘The Wanderers’ tells the story of Poland’s Holocaust survivors who fled to the Soviet Union


Holocaust survivor Albrecht Weinberg, who moved back to Germany in his 80's, dies aged 101

Weinberg, who was born in Rhauderfehn in 1925, passed away in the town of Leer, not far from his birthplace in northwest Germany.

Holocaust survivor Albrecht Weinberg, 99, poses in inside his old classroom at the memorial at the former Jewish School before a discussion with foreign journalists a week before the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz concentration camp on January 20, 2025 in Leer, Germany.

S. African non-Jewish activists protest at Holocaust center with ‘Jews for Free Palestine' shirts

The organization claimed to stand with “all Jewish voices across the world who reject Zionism, apartheid, and genocide, and who continue to call for a Free Palestine.

People hold placards and Palestinian flags in Cape Town, South Africa, January 26, 2024.

Berlin Holocaust memorial vandalized in latest antisemitic vandalism incident

The memorial for the 32,000 deported Jews has faced repeated vandalism since its creation, with it being splashed with white paint and covered in parcel tape in August.

A Stolperstein or a 'stumbling stone' with the words, "here lived Margot Bendheim, born 1921, deported 1944 - Theresienstadt, survived" engraved in memory of Holocaust survivor Margot Friedlaender, is embedded in front of the house where she once lived, after she died on May 9 at the age of 103.

Collection of documents of Ustasha Atrocities presented at the Begin Center - opinion

Despite the fact that plaques mark the names of central death camps and murder sites in the Hall of Remembrance at Yad Vashem, the general public is unfamiliar with others targeted in the Holocaust

The presentation at the Begin Center was attended by researchers and representatives from multiple universities, embassies, and members of the Serbian community in Israel.

Nazi-looted painting found in home of Dutch SS collaborator's descendants

Portrait of a Young Girl, by Dutch artist Toon Kelder, was in the collection of Jewish art collector Jacques Goudstikker before it was taken when the Nazis invaded the Netherlands.

Portrait of a Young Girl by Dutch artist Toon Kelder, hanging in the home of Dutch SS collaborator Hendrik Seyffardt’s descendants.

At Abraham Foxman’s funeral, an elegy for the last generation with direct ties to the Holocaust

Foxman spent decades as one of the world’s most recognizable Jewish advocates, serving for nearly 30 years as the ADL’s top professional and another two decades before that in its leadership ranks.

Abe Foxman delivering remarks on April 23, 2025, during the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum's Annual Days of Remembrance ceremony held at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C. Inset, Foxman with the nanny who hid him during the Holocaust, Bronislawa Kurpi.

'Am I a murderer?' Yad Vashem restores a Jewish ghetto policeman's Holocaust confession

A Holocaust-era diary that was buried, distorted, is now finally being shared

A page in Calel Perechodnik’s original diary, which is now stored in Yad Vashem’s archives in Jerusalem.

On this day: Adolf Eichmann captured in Argentina by Mossad

Eichmann was hanged at midnight on June 1, 1962; he was the only person in Israel’s history to be executed by the state.

 Adolf Eichmann, pictured in 1941/1942, in his SS uniform. Eichmann fled to Argentina in 1950 before being captured by the Mossad in 1960.

Pro-Palestine camp to take place at site of Jewish WWII deportations

Moorweide in Hamburg is the site from which around 6,000 Jews, as well as Sinti and Roma, were deported during the Holocaust.

A demonstration in support of Palestine and Lebanon marches through Stockholm to Gustav Adolfs Torg, Sweden October 5.

Berlin renames state parliament plaza after German Holocaust survivor Margot Friedlander

"Margot Friedlander Square stands for human dignity, for Jewish life in our city, and for the values that are essential to our democracy: freedom, respect, and tolerance," said Berlin Mayor Wegner.

Margot Friedländer, Holocaust survivor and honorary citizen of Berlin, participates in Berlin's event commemorating the end of World War II, May 7, 2025. (Sebastian Christoph Gollnow/dpa