Nazis

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

Soon after the publication of the search engine, users took to social media to share their discoveries of Nazi ancestors.

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.
A judge ruled in 2026 that Amedeo Modigliani's "Seated Man with a Cane," shown here in part, must be returned to the family of the man who owned it before the Holocaust.

Congress removes deadline for Holocaust-looted art claims, opening door to more restitution

A Zikaron Basalon event held at the Anti-Defamation League office in Jerusalem on April 14, 2026.

From Lithuania to Jerusalem, a Holocaust survivor shares his story with diplomats

RENEE ALBERSHEIM was murdered during the Holocaust. A Jewish couple in Florida has said the Mourner's Kaddish for her daily for years.

Florida Jewish community says kaddish for children killed in Holocaust


Belgian Left’s stance calls for 'Palestine without Jews,' says Interest Party leader to 'Post'

Tom Van Grieken of Vlaams Belang discusses Belgium's political crisis, rising antisemitism, and Jewish community security, as David Rosenberg's candidacy reflects shifting Jewish attitudes.

 Far-right Vlaams Belang's Tom Van Grieken gestures at a polling station during the federal, regional and European Parliament elections in Schoten, Belgium, June 9, 2024.

Fania Brantsovsky, last living Vilna ghetto partisan resistance fighter, dies at 102

Fania Brantsovsky, the last survivor of the Vilna ghetto and a Yiddish culture advocate, died at 102, mourning a rich Jewish past.

 Vilnius, Lithuania

Gov. Newsom signs bill allowing residents to recover possessions stolen in Holocaust

“For Holocaust survivors and their families, the fight to reclaim art and other personal items stolen by the Nazis continues to reopen traumatic wounds,” Newsom said.

 Governor Newsom signs AB 2867 with Assemblymember Jesse Gabriel and children and grandchildren of Holocaust survivors.

'Paris 1944': How France embraced the Nazis, resistance, then themselves - review

Paris 1944 is at its best when Patrick Bishop addresses how – and by whom – the city was liberated.

 CROWDS OF French patriots line the Champs-Élysées as Gen. Philippe Leclerc’s Free French 2nd Armored Division passes through the Arc de Triomphe, after Paris was liberated on August 26, 1944. Banners support Charles de Gaulle.

South Carolina school district restricts Holocaust graphic novel for middle-schoolers

The decision follows the passage this summer of restrictive new guidelines on instructional materials at the State Board of Education. 

 Frank W. Baker's book "We Survived the Holocaust," featuring illustrations by Tim Ogline, tells the real-life story of Bluma Tishgarten and Felix Goldberg.

'Final Verdict': A valuable account of an unusual Holocaust trial - review

Final Verdict is an extremely valuable book, which deserves wide circulation not only in Germany but throughout the Western world.

 The Stutthof concentration camp barracks after liberation in 1945.

This artist escaped the Nazis, and created Britain's first memorial to their victims

Fred Kormis' memorial will be united with many of his other sculptures and prints in an upcoming exhibition at London’s Wiener Holocaust Library.

Fred Kormis in his studio in the 1980s.

New documentary unveils Leni Riefenstahl's complicity in Nazi atrocities, challenging her narrative

A new documentary reveals Leni Riefenstahl's deep complicity in Nazi atrocities, challenging the carefully crafted image of the filmmaker as merely a naive artist.

 Riefenstahl with Hitler at the Nuremberg rally in 1934.

'Tunnel of Hope': The story of the Holocaust's biggest escape - review

Dr. Betty Brodsky Cohen, the daughter of Fanya Dunetz Brodsky, an escapee from the Novogrudok labor camp, has given names and faces to most who have no other memorial.

 The author’s mother, Fanya Dunetz, pictured after liberation from the Bielski partisans with a surviving cousin. Her head is covered with a kerchief after losing her hair to typhus in the forest.

Before this famous Polish bakery ‘opened’ in 1944, it belonged to a Jewish family killed by Nazis

Goławski and Piotr Nazaruk, who leads research at Grodzka Gate, could not name a traditional Jewish bakery like the Bajtels’ today in Poland.

 Kuźmiuk Bakery in Lublin, Poland, operates in the shadow of the Holocaust: The family that operates it took over a bakery whose Jewish owners were murdered by the Nazis.