Holocaust artifacts

Inside Yad Vashem's 'Living Memory': A window to victims' souls

At Yad Vashem, ‘Living Memory’ reveals how objects, letters, and art carry the weight of lives lost – and ensure they are not forgotten

|ByLARA SUKSTER MOSHEYOF
Yad Vashem’s ‘Living Memory’ exhibition creates a time-travel experience through art.
Megilat Hitler, now displayed at Yad Vashem's active synagogue, which opened on January 1.

Faith under persecution: Yad Vashem exhibit on keeping the Jewish calendar in the Shoah opens

Handwritten calendars, prayer books, and testimonies at Yad Vashem show how Jewish life and tradition endured during the Holocaust.

|ByHANNAH BROWN
The last Jew in Vinnitsa

Nazi killer in infamous ‘Last Jew in Vinnitsa’ picture finally identified using AI

Jakobus Onnen, a teacher from the town of Tichelwarf, was identified as the Nazi gunman in the 1941 photograph titled ‘The Last Jew in Vinnitsa.’

|ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
A march to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Buchenwald concentration camp, April 6, 2025. Many of the items due to be auctioned at Felzmann auction house were from the camp.

Germany halts Holocaust artifacts auction amid widespread criticism

“For victims of Nazi persecution and Holocaust survivors, this auction is a cynical and shameless undertaking that leaves them outraged and speechless.” said Christoph Heubner.

|ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF

Hundreds of illegally traded artifacts seized by Antiquities Authority in Jerusalem

Raid of Mamilla Mall shop follows new regulations by IAA to monitor international black market.

JUNE 15, 2016ByDANIEL K. EISENBUD
Inspectors from the IAA’s Unit for the Prevention of Antiquities >> Robbery during the Tuesday aid of the Mamilla store.

Holocaust survivors say Clalit withholding ‘hundreds of millions of euros’

Committee chairman Moshe Gafni (United Torah Judaism) demanded that Clalit officials immediately provide his committee with details about the funds and to whom they are owed.

MAY 25, 2016ByJUDY SIEGEL-ITZKOVICH
Moshe Gafni

Anti-Semitism since the Shoah

They thus assumed the false position of absolute victims and dishonestly accused many Europeans of a non-existent mass murder.

MAY 3, 2016ByMANFRED GERSTENFELD
A Holocaust survivor wears a yellow star during a ceremony at the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial in Jerusalem

Princeton scholar says Poland looking to whitewash Holocaust role in textbooks

The Polish government has already levied a censure against the academic after he said that the "Poles killed more Jews than Germans" during a October 2015 interview.

MARCH 4, 2016ByDANIEL J. ROTH
Polish born Mordechai Fox, an 89-year-old Holocaust survivor, wears a yellow Star of David on his jacket during a ceremony marking Holocaust Remembrance Day

Holocaust drama ‘Son of Saul’ wins Oscar for best foreign film

The film, which was partly financed by the Claims Conference, claimed the prize at the annual Oscar ceremony Sunday night in Los Angeles.

FEBRUARY 29, 2016ByJTA
‘Son of Saul’

$10 million gift to endow Georgetown U Holocaust study fund

Georgetown also announced that as of Feb. 29, its Program for Jewish Civilization will be renamed the Center for Jewish Civilization.

FEBRUARY 25, 2016ByJTA
STUDENTS FROM Germany visit the Hall of Names at Yad Vashem in Jerusalem

Italy releases classified documents related to Nazi war crimes

Declassification of "cabinet of shame" documents hailed as "historic breakthrough" by Italian Jewish community.

FEBRUARY 16, 2016ByJTA
King Victor Emanuel III, (R) Adolf Hitler (C) and Benito Mussolini (L) watch fascist troops march past from a balcony in central Rome in this 1941 television file footage

'Mein Kampf'sells out in Germany on first day of release

At a press conference Friday, the book's publisher has received orders for some 15,000 copies but had an initial print run of only 4,000.

JANUARY 9, 2016ByJTA
A customer holds a Polish copy of Adolf Hitler's Mein Kampf at a book store in Wroclaw, south western Poland February 23, 2005

Students caught stealing from Auschwitz-Birkenau could face 10 years in jail

The teens were found to have hidden in their bags fragments of a hair clipper, glass from the barracks and buttons.

DECEMBER 30, 2015ByJTA
Auschwitz-Birkenau

California thrift store removes Holocaust costume

Employees were unaware of the costume's nature.

OCTOBER 27, 2015ByJPOST.COM STAFF
Majdanek clothing and shoes from Holocaust