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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.
A mass rally of Berliners took place in the Sportpalast, where Nazi Reich Minister of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda and Gauleiter of Berlin, Dr. Joseph Goebbels, with ruthless frankness, described the danger facing Europe, 1943.

Were your ancestors Nazis? New research tool allows people to find out

Members of the US Air Force Pararescue, April 5, 2026; illustrative.

Behind the US Air Force unit that spearheaded the mission to rescue downed airman

A detail from Arthur Szyk's “They Too Have a Right to Live,”  which first appeared in the May 12, 1943 issue of The New York Times and was presumably sponsored by the Emergency Committee to Save the Jewish People of Europe, an organization founded by Zionist activist Peter Bergson in 1943.

This Jewish artist fought Nazis with a paintbrush, when art like his still mattered 


Out of the fires of Lvov

Esther Barbsch was just a girl when she and her family were forced to flee into the interior of the Soviet Union and seek refuge from the German invasion.

JEWISH GRAVES in Ukraine.

Debating how to fight antisemitism, then and now

Seventy-five years ago this spring, president Franklin D. Roosevelt was confronted by a similar dilemma.

FRANKLIN ROOSEVELT

How Karl Lagerfeld cleared Chanel of its antisemitic, Nazi roots

Not only was Chanel in bed with the Nazi cause, but there is strong evidence to suggest that she actively worked for the Nazis as a secret agent.

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Govt. approves NIS17m. for memorial to Jewish fighters in WWII

The project, which first was approved by a government decision in 2002, is expected to be completed by 2022.

WWII veterans

Dining for the devil

Rosella Postroni’s novel about Hitler’s food-tasters is a flimsy whitewashing of German complicity.

ADOLF HITLER dines with Russian foreign minister Vyacheslav Molotov in 1940.

Familial rivalry

Lynda Cohen Loigman’s sophomore novel dives into the lives of two warring sisters during World War II.

‘THERE ARE lies – told by both sisters – that threaten to destroy their fragile family ties.’

Moldova, new to Holocaust remembrance, institutes a plan

Moldova's Jewish residents largely fled or were deported to their deaths during the Shoah, and its government has only marked Holocaust Remembrance Day since 2016.

Moldova's national flag is seen in central Chisinau, Moldova

Supporting the enemy

Throughout the 1930s and ‘40s, support in the US for Germany and Nazi ideology was more extensive than generally known.

CHARLES LINDBERGH speaks at an ‘America First’ rally in Fort Wayne, Indiana, in 1941.

Wiesenthal Center calls on Croatian authorities to ban Holocaust deniers

The Croatian Revolutionary Movement Ustasha was a Roman Catholic, fascist, racist, ultranationalist and terrorist organization that promoted genocide against Serbs.

A flower-shaped stone monument in Jasenovac, 100 km east of Zagreb in Croatia.

The possibility of a new Holocaust with the reincarnation of antisemitism

The era of “never again” is ending in Western Europe, fading in North America and never penetrated the Middle East.

Parts of the Holocaust memorial project "Stolpersteine" (stumbling blocks) are pictured in Berlin, Germany, August 18, 2017.