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

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

The last Jew in Vinnitsa

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

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


What a Bergen-Belsen prenup teaches us about Jewish resilience

The Star of David found on a Bergen-Belsen ketubah is an expression of that life-affirming impetus.

a holocaust survivor wears a yellow Star of David on his jacket during a ceremony marking Holocaust Remembrance Day at Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial in Jerusalem

EU Parliament calls to recover art looted by Nazis in Holocaust & WWII

Resolution calls for comprehensive database for Jewish-owned artworks seized by the Nazis.

President of the World Jewish Restitution Organization, Gideon Taylor

A Holocaust victim's diary depicting life in the Kovno ghetto

‘The urge to deny the horrific reality – or alternatively to adapt to it and concentrate on the here and now and cling to a seemingly ordinary life – was characteristic of life in the ghettos’

A BARBED-wire fence along Panrow Street, separating the two parts of the Kovno ghetto in Lithuania.

A fresh start

Dr. Daniela Novick recounts her family odyssey.

DANIELA NOVICK, 70 FROM PRUDNIK, SILESIA (POLAND), TO REHOVOT, 1957

Protesters petition Holocaust memorials in Netherlands, Belgium

Many Europeans are raising objections to Holocaust Memorials for a variety of reasons.

Russian poet Yevgeny Yevtushenko visits the Hall of Names at the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial in Jerusalem November 15, 2007

Aleksandar Zograf’s ‘The Letters of Hilda Deitch’

The goal is to retrieve a memory and to create the memory.

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.

ON MY MIND: Validating Holocaust denial

Even with the passage of 73 years, one should expect a visceral reaction to anyone publicly denying the Holocaust.

A visitor to the US Holocaust Memorial Museum walks past a mural of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp in Washington, January 26, 2007

Documentary chronicles search for family's art lost in Holocaust

My family’s story is one of those lesser-valued stories, but it’s just as important because it’s the story not only of art my family owned, but art my great-grandfather created.

A Holocaust survivor shows the number that was tattooed on his arm in a Nazi concentration camp during the Holocaust

Berlin museum returns Nazi-looted sculpture to heirs of Jewish owners

The Saulmanns’ descendants hired researchers who managed to locate 11 artworks from their collection, which landed in five German museums and three private collections.

Bode Museum

House passes bill to help Holocaust survivors obtain restitution

“This is a powerful statement of America’s unwavering commitment to supporting Holocaust survivors in their quest for justice,” Gideon Taylor, the WJRO chairman of operations, said in a statement.

YIVO unveils lost Jewish documents thought to have been destroyed during the Holocaust