Holocaust

Holocaust remembrance pages removed in Pentagon’s DEI purge

Stories of Holocaust survivors were caught in the anti-DEI net, as was an article about Jewish “Golden Girls” star Bea Arthur.

By GRACE GILSON/JTA
20/03/2025

Or Levy honors Hersh Goldberg-Polin with tattoo, calls for hostage release

Or Levy, who was held alongside Hersh Goldberg-Polin for some of his time in Hamas captivity, got a tattoo reading: "He who has a why can deal with any how."

By URI SELLA
20/03/2025

Purim’s poetic justice: Light and joy, gladness and honor…in Goebbels’ retreat

Beyond the headlines: A weekly glimpse into the Israel you won’t read about in the news.

  Jews demonstrate against the White Paper in Jerusalem, May 22, 1939.

Purim’s lesson: The White Paper showed why Jews must defend themselves

Unlike in the story of the Megillah and during the Holocaust, Jews are presently defending their homeland, the country that was promised to their forefathers.

 BERAT, DESIGNATED as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2008, served as a major hideout for the Jewish

Albania's secret Jewish history, how its population saved Jews during the Holocaust

DIASPORA AFFAIRS: During WWII, Albania defied the Nazis, sheltering Jews and preserving its tradition of hospitality. Discover how this Muslim-majority nation became a haven for Jewish refugees.

By HAREL KOPELMAN
15/03/2025

A Jewish magazine challenges perceptions in Germany beyond the Holocaust

A new Jewish student magazine is reshaping identity and resilience in post-October 7 Germany.

  IRAN'S SUPREME Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei speaks during a meeting in Tehran, last week.

From Haman to Khamenei: The Jewish people remember their enemies

MIDDLE ISRAEL: As Jews marked Purim, Iran’s Khamenei denied the Holocaust, echoing past enemies. History proves one thing: Jews remember, and those who seek to erase them never prevail.

György Kun, Hungarian survivor of Dr. Mengele's twin experiments in Auschwitz, dies at 93

Kun and his brother Istvan survived Auschwitz in part due to the fact that Dr. Mengele believed them to be twins and thus spared them from the gas chambers.

Freed hostage Agam Berger gifted violin that survived Holocaust

Built in Czechia, the violin belonged to a musician who played in an orchestra and was killed in the Holocaust.

Model of survival: The story of Holocaust survivor and octogenarian Yona Amit

'I don’t know why I was saved – why I from all the others. But I know that my task was to be one little part of bringing up our nation from the ashes to become a nation again, to come to Israel.'

By NATAN ROTHSTEIN
08/03/2025
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