Holocaust

German government pledges record $1 billion in funding for Holocaust survivor home care

Although the survivor population has dramatically decreased over the years, the needs among the remaining population are much greater and require additional funding.

Stuart E. Eizenstat speaks during the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum's Annual Days of Remembrance ceremony at the U.S. Capitol on April 23, 2025 in Washington, DC.
THE SPOON of Arthur Poznanski.

Yad Vashem’s ‘Living Memory’ exhibition brings Holocaust stories into the present

Michael Smuss, last survivor of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, dies at 99, October 23, 2025.

Last Warsaw Ghetto Uprising survivor Michael Smuss dies at 99

Holocaust survivors, freed Israeli hostages and family members

An embrace across generations


After the hostage release: The world must remember what it knew - opinion

The hostages’ return is a moment of grace, but only conscience can heal the world.

THE WRITER addresses an Auschwitz Jewish Center Foundation event in New York earlier this year, marking 25 years of the foundation. He condemns those who equate Gaza’s suffering with the Holocaust, weaponizing Jewish trauma to vilify Israel.

Stolen Nazi painting returned to Jewish descendants of rightful owner

Lady with a Fan by Gerard ter Borch, a 17th-century painting, has been returned to the descendants of Dr. Henry Bromberg

Lady with a Fan by Gerard ter Borch.

Holocaust survivor and member of group plot to kill six million Germans dead at 105

Yehuda 'Idek' Friedman, a Krakow-born Holocaust survivor and member of Nakam, has died at 105. He recounted the group's revenge plots in later interviews.

Yehuda "Idek" Friedman

Post-ceasefire trend sees Gazans claiming: 'I am a Holocaust survivor'

International March of the Living condemned the trend as a "profound distortion of history and a cynical exploitation of humanity’s darkest chapters."

Gazan influencer Saleh Al-Jafaraw, Mr. FAFO, using an Instagram shareable sticker overlay, which places the phrase "A survivor of the Gaza Holocaust" in Arabic and English.

Bulgaria denounces antisemitic vandalism at a synagogue, Holocaust memorials

A synagogue and Holocaust memorials in Bulgaria were vandalized in a new wave of antisemitic attacks condemned by Jewish groups.

A Bulgarian woman walks past windows, featuring the Star of David, in a Synagouge in Sofia on the first day of Hanukkah December 19, 2003

New series by Hagai Levi, ‘Etty,’ to open at Cinema South Film Festival 

“I think this story is deeply relevant to the events that have taken place, and continue to take place, in southern Israel. I hope it may offer viewers some inspiration and comfort.”

A SHOT from Haggai Levy’s ‘Etty.’

Mehdi Hasan posts, then deletes about ways 'Gaza genocide' worse than Holocaust

"One of the ways in which the Gaza genocide is worse than... even the Holocaust – is that you didn’t have... Nazis mocking the genocide after it was over," Hasan wrote.

Founder, CEO, and Editor-in-Chief, Zeteo, Mehdi Hasan speaks onstage at Semafor’s Innovating to Restore Trust in News: A National Summit at Gallup Great Hall on February 27, 2025 in Washington, DC.

Print for the ages: Israel Museum showcases printmaking masterpieces

The Israel Museum continues its 60th anniversary festivities with a sumptuous print-based exhibition

THE POLYCHROMATIC love design was a leitmotif of Robert Indiana’s long career.

How Nazi Germany erased Porsche’s Jewish co-founder, Adolf Rosenberger

Jewish Porsche co-founder Adolf Rosenberger was ousted under Nazi pressure, new research reveals, exposing how he was erased from the automaker’s early history.

The Porsche logo is displayed on a vehicle at the exhibition pavillion for Porsche, on the day of the IAA auto show in Munich, Germany, September 10, 2025.

Serbia arrests 11 for vandalizing Paris Jewish sites at behest of foreign intelligence

Serbian authorities say a foreign intelligence service ordered attacks on Jewish and Muslim sites, including synagogues and the Shoah Memorial in May.

 A synagogue in france that was vandalized with green paint, May 31, 2025.

Scarlett Johansson and the Jews: Top star’s directorial debut is Holocaust survivors film

When Scarlett Johansson first read Tory Kamen’s script, she told the Hollywood news site Deadline in an interview, 'I cried, and that almost never happens.' 

DIRECTOR SCARLETT JOHANSSON stands on the red carpet with ‘Eleanor the Great’ cast members June Squibb (center) and Erin Kellyman at the 78th Cannes Film Festival in Cannes, France, in May 2025.