Brooklyn auction house suspends sale of 19th-century document that Romanian...
(JTA) — An auction house in New York suspended the sale of a document that a Jewish community in Romania said had been stolen from it. Kestenbaum & Company, a Brooklyn firm that has specialized in...
View ArticleJewish prisoner’s photos depicting horrid life in Lodz Ghetto donated to...
BOSTON (JTA) – Henryk Ross risked his life to take surreptitious photographs of the brutal life in Poland’s Lodz Ghetto. Now a cache of nearly 50 of those photos taken by the Jewish prisoner has been...
View ArticleAmsterdam mayor wants state to return $22 million Nazi-looted painting now in...
AMSTERDAM (JTA) — The mayor of Amsterdam has asked a Dutch committee to reassess its decision on a Holocaust restitution claim that keeps a $22 million painting looted by the Nazis in the city’s hands....
View ArticleDutch right-wing politician calls Nuremberg trials ‘illegitimate’
AMSTERDAM (JTA) — A prominent right-wing lawmaker in the Netherlands has provoked outrage by saying that the trials against Nazis in Nuremberg, Germany, were “illegitimate.” Thierry Baudet, leader of...
View ArticleHow the 1941 Dutch February Strike turbocharged a growing resistance movement...
AMSTERDAM (JTA) — Eighty years ago on Thursday, this city was silent. The soft bell chimes of the ubiquitous trams, the main mode of local transportation and a constant presence to this day, were...
View ArticleA rabbi moves Holocaust survivors to front of vaccination line
The COVID-19 vaccination clinic for Holocaust survivors in a local synagogue started out a bit ominously: A police cruiser was stationed outside and a bomb-sniffing German Shepherd was deployed inside,...
View ArticleGermany Places Far-Right AfD Party Under Surveillance for Extremism
It is the first time in Germany’s postwar history that a party represented in the federal Parliament has elicited this level of scrutiny as a potential threat to democracy. BERLIN — For the first time...
View ArticleStar chef Alon Shaya helped a Holocaust survivor recreate recipes from his...
(JTA) — Visiting Yad Vashem a decade ago, Alon Shaya got to see some of the Jerusalem Holocaust museum’s culinary artifacts that aren’t always on display to the public. It was the James Beard...
View ArticleIsraeli Envoy in Ukraine Slams Naming of Soccer Stadium in Honor of Nazi Ally...
Israel’s Ambassador to Ukraine on Tuesday lambasted the city of Ternopil after its council named a rebuilt soccer stadium after Roman Shukhevych, the leader of a Ukrainian nationalist brigade created...
View ArticleDigging into Holocaust history and finding a sort of gold
Plunder: A Memoir of Family Property and Nazi Treasure By Menachem Kaiser Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 277 pages, $27 Menachem Kaiser’s third-generation Holocaust memoir, in keeping with the genre, is an...
View ArticleThe Nazi-Fighting Women of the Jewish Resistance
They went undercover, smuggled revolvers in teddy bears and were bearers of the truth. Why hadn’t I heard their stories? In 1943, Niuta Teitelbaum strolled into a Gestapo apartment on Chmielna Street...
View ArticleVienna threatens libel suit against Rothschild scion who said city extends...
(JTA) — The City of Vienna is threatening to sue for libel an American descendant of the Rothschild family for accusing the municipality of extending Nazi policies of expropriation. A municipal...
View ArticleAs Holocaust survivors dwindle, a proposal emerges for a day devoted to them
WARSAW, Poland (JTA) — Jews who were murdered by the Nazis have two days of commemoration devoted to them. Now two Jewish leaders have proposed a third day of Holocaust remembrance — devoted to the...
View ArticleHolocaust-education bill passes Wisconsin senate after delays due to coronavirus
It mandates that schools teach students about the Holocaust and other genocides at least once each during middle and high school. (March 18, 2021 / JNS) A bill to require Holocaust education in schools...
View ArticleA ‘Nazi love story’ about a mass murderer who got away
(New York Jewish Week via JTA) — I first met Philippe Sands when he was promoting his 2015 documentary “My Nazi Legacy: What Our Fathers Did.” It told the story of Niklas Frank and Horst Wächter, two...
View ArticlePolish woman who doted over Jewish boy she rescued from the Holocaust dies at...
(JTA) — Anna Kozminska, a Polish woman who rescued a Jewish boy from the Holocaust, has died. She was 101. Kozminska, who was recognized as a Righteous Among the Nations – Israel’s title for non-Jews...
View ArticleSewing for survival: The last of Auschwitz’s forgotten ‘dressmakers’ dies
For a group of 40 seamstresses imprisoned at Auschwitz, the ability to create high-end fashion meant the difference between life and death. Amid the horror of the Holocaust, starting in 1943, a select...
View ArticleCan We Really Picture Auschwitz?
When Buba Weisz Sajovits and her sister Icu arrived in Veracruz in 1946, their eldest sister, Bella, was waiting for them by the dock. Bella, who had been in Mexico with her husband from the 1930s,...
View ArticleBritish court jails Holocaust denier for inciting hatred against Jews
(JTA) — A Holocaust denier from London with previous convictions for inciting hatred against Jews is headed to jail. Alison Chabloz, 57, was handed a nine-week prison sentence in Westminster...
View ArticleNot too late to show gratitude’: First housing project for elderly rescuers...
(JTA) — In 1998, the now 90-year-old Lyubov Arkhiptsova-Volchek was recognized as a Righteous Among the Nations – Israel’s title for non-Jews it recognized for risking their lives to save Jews during...
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