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On a tour of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, chef Alon Shaya was mesmerized by a family's cookbook. An initial offer to cook the recipes for Steven, the family's surviving son, evolved into events that bring the Fenves family's recipes across the U.S. while raising hundreds of thousands of dollars for the Holocaust museum

It is difficult to imagine more different circumstances of Jewish death than these. So why did the friends and family of fallen soldiers since October 7 link the deaths of their loved ones with the deaths of Jews killed in the Holocaust?

The Beth Elieser nursing home in northern Israel is a unique space where evangelical Germans join a long-standing tradition of caring for Holocaust survivors as a way of atoning for the sins of the Nazis and expressing love for the Jewish people

Sixty years after the Mossad assassinated Herberts Cukurs, Latvian prosecutors ruled evidence – including testimonies from Holocaust survivors – was insufficient for prosecution. An Israeli-Latvian historian said that Latvian extremists saw an opportunity and revealed Israel had ignored requests for testimonies

The contrasting stories of two fashion designers – one murdered in the Holocaust, another who survived and moved to Israel – are recounted in a colorful new Israeli exhibition called 'Heroines'

'Never again' has two formulations: never again, and never again to us, the Jews, in the Holocaust or on October 7. It is time to put this distinction aside

Jack Fairweather, author of a new book on Fritz Bauer – the Jewish prosecutor instrumental in raising German awareness of Auschwitz in the 1960s – believes Holocaust denial has taken on a disturbing new form in today's Germany

Glazer was not in France to accept the award for best foreign film, but a proxy read a message to the audience asserting that the Holocaust film's subject of dehumanization was "alarmingly" relevant.

Having spent 18 years making a film about the almost-total lack of justice for victims of the Holocaust, I have become something of an expert on the subject. Invited to prove to Iranians that the Shoah took place, I used the self-incriminating words of leading Nazis to prove my case

An eight-country survey, commissioned by the Claims Conference, found that Romanians are least knowledgeable about the Holocaust and more likely to believe it is a myth. But even half of Americans cannot name a single concentration camp or ghetto

A groundbreaking eight-country study on Holocaust knowledge has revealed alarming gaps in awareness, particularly among young adults. The comprehensive survey – conducted by the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany and spanning the United States, England, France, Austria, Germany, Poland, Hungary and Romania – found that 76% of American adults believe another Holocaust could […]

On the Tenth of Tevet, designated by Israel's Chief Rabbinate as a day of remembrance for Holocaust victims whose death dates remain unknown, attention turns to one of the Holocaust's most devastating yet lesser-documented killing sites: the Ponary Forest. Following their June 22, 1941 invasion of Lithuania, German forces implemented a unique method of systematic […]

For decades, Israel refused to have any official ties with the French far right under Le Pen, an antisemitic politician who denied the Holocaust and said the gas chambers at Auschwitz were merely a 'marginal detail' in history

Zeitz became a crime scene on the one-year anniversary of the October 7 attack, when all 10 of its Stolpersteine honoring local Jewish victims of the Holocaust were stolen. Authorities drew a blank on finding the guilty party, and residents took the matter of replacing the stones into their own hands, as far-right and neo-Nazi groups are gaining ground in east Germany

  When we reflect on the heroes of the Holocaust, names like Oskar Schindler, the German businessman who rescued over 1,200 Jews, often come to mind. However, another remarkable figure emerged during this dark chapter in history: Abdol Hossein Sardari, an Iranian diplomat who risked everything to save Jews from Nazi persecution. His story is […]

'Questioning the Holocaust has become normalized in mainstream public discourse,' says the director of the Landecker Digital Memory Lab, that launched a London project targeting Holocaust denial on the internet

Media personality Ben Shapiro injected the events of October 7 into a musical on the Holocaust he wrote before the massacre. The result perfectly suits the message that Shapiro is trying to convey: The Jews will always live by the sword

As a child survivor of the Holocaust, the ever present 'racism and antisemitism tormented him and fueled his strength to awaken minds,' French President Emmanuel Macron said in a statement

Reviewing: On Duty: The Polish Blue and Criminal Police in the Holocaust; Living among the Dead; Irena’s Gift; and Holocaust Heroines.

'They just threw these people into camps, and millions of people ended up dead there': Holocaust revisionism was on show during a conversation between Tucker Carlson and historian Darryl Cooper, shared on X by both Carlson and Musk