Yom Hashoah: We Remember
In the Jewish tradition, we are commanded to remember (zachor) and not to forget (lo tishkach). This week we commemorate Yom HaShoah, the Day of Holocaust Remembrance. On this solemn occasion, 74 years after...
Love letters of the Shoah: Messages thrown from cattle cars convey final wishes, prayers,...
Jews have long been known as the people of the book, but fresh evidence has emerged that they’re also the people of the letter.
Of the millions of Jews who were taken to their deaths...
Revitalizing the 3,000-year-old Har HaZeitim cemetery in Jerusalem
Israel’s oldest cemetery, Har HaZeitim—better known as the Mount of Olives—is expected to be rejuvenated in the upcoming years.
Overlooking the Temple Mount, the 3,000-year-old reservoir of Jewish history is the resting place for more...
Exhibition at Dutch National Holocaust museum leaves out Auschwitz pictures
Holland’s national Holocaust museum excluded four pictures taken at Auschwitz from a current exhibition.
The Jewish Cultural Quarter of Amsterdam, which consists of the National Holocaust Museum, dismissed criticism that the pictures were censored, saying they...
Pesach during the Holocaust
The Pesach holiday – which marks the Jewish people’s exodus from enslavement in ancient Egypt – was never more reminiscent in modern times as during the Holocaust. In the Pesach Haggadah, which recounts the miraculous story, Jews...
Lithuania Jewish community slams state center for faulty details of Holocaust
The state-funded Center for the Study of the Genocide and Resistance of Residents of Lithuania has been under fire for publishing last month that “the Lithuanians operated against the will of the Germans” during...
Remains of Jewish settlement dating from Second Temple period found in Beersheva
The remains of a Jewish settlement of the Second Temple period, including the sherd of a rare oil lamp depicting a menorah with nine branches, have been discovered in Beersheva for the first time,...
Holocaust train car arrives in New York for Auschwitz exhibit in New York
A crane lowered a train car onto tracks on Sunday outside the Museum of Jewish Heritage in New York—a boxcar that carried Jews and others to their deaths at Auschwitz and other Nazi death...
Rare ancient seal of Jewish king’s officer discovered in City of David in Jerusalem
The Israel Antiquities Authority and Tel Aviv University discovered a 2,600 year old ancient bulla seal impression bearing the inscription “(belonging) to Nathan-Melech, Servant of the King” in the City of David just outside...
Wealthy German family to donate millions to charity after uncovering Nazi past
One of Germany’s richest families with business holdings in multiple internationally recognized brands will be donating millions of dollars to charity after learning that their parents and grandparents were ardent supporters of Adolf Hitler...