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Eli Rosenbaum, director of human rights enforcement policy and strategy at the U.S. Department of Justice's human rights and special prosecutions section, speaking at the U.S. Institute of Peace on June 28, 2022. Source: Flickr/U.S. Institute of Peace.

Top Nazi hunter to retire this month, after 38 years at US Justice Department

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The U.S. Department of Justice’s longest-serving prosecutor Eli Rosenbaum, who is also one of the world’s top Nazi hunters, intends to retire after 38 years at the department by the end of the year. Rosenbaum serves as counselor at...
Saint Peter's Basilica in Vatican City. Photo by Menachem Wecker.

Rome event to address Vatican’s ‘historical, theological controversies’ during the Holocaust

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Historians and theologians will gather in Rome at the Pontifical Gregorian University from Oct. 9 to Oct. 11 to discuss the meaning of documents about the Vatican’s activities during the Holocaust, which the pope...
The central panel of the Ghent Altarpiece rescued from a cache of Nazi-looted art in Altaussee, Austria in July 1945. Source: U.S. National Archives and Records Administration

We need a global campaign to locate Nazi-looted art

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Museums are often viewed as repositories of culture and history, showcasing the beauty and creativity of humanity. However, behind many works of art hanging on museum walls lies a dark history of theft, violence...
A new headstone at Ipswich Old Cemetery in England honoring Kurt Erich Glauber, a former Jewish MI6 agent who died at Mauthausen, was unveiled at a memorial ceremony on Sept. 13, 2023. Photo by Stanley Kaye.

Ipswich honors British Jewish spy, caught and killed by Nazis

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A newly unveiled marble headstone in Ipswich Old Cemetery in West England honors Kurt Erich Glauber, a British MI6 agent, who was Jewish and risked his life operating undercover in his native Austria during...
A memorial at Babi Yar in Ukraine, the site of a September 1941 massacre carried out by German forces and Ukrainian collaborators during their campaign against the Soviet Union in World War II. Credit: Meunierd/Shutterstock.

The dark legacy of Babi Yar

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The English word “holocaust” is borrowed from the Latin word holocaustum, used in the Latin translation of the Bible. This word is based in turn on a Greek word that means “burned whole” or “burnt...