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Holocaust Remembrance Day: Honoring victims and celebrating Jewish resilience

On Yom Hashoah, objects, letters, and fragments of lives cut short remind us that the Holocaust was not only about death, but about vibrant life.

|ByLARA SUKSTER MOSHEYOF
Remembering the Holocaust: A call to preserve Jewish memory
Two people stand at a plaque at the Buchenwald concentration camp memorial near Weimar, Germany, Jan. 26, 2018.

Pro-Palestinian activists are banned from Buchenwald, where survivors vowed to fight for peace

Kufiyas in Buchenwald argued that their protest would honor the memory of Buchenwald’s victims together with all “victims of genocide and fascism.”

|BySHIRA LI BARTOV/JTA
A visitor stands in front of a watchtower behind a fence on the grounds of the former Nazi concentration camp Buchenwald near Weimar

Pro-Palestinian rally at Buchenwald memorial shut down by German authorities

The rally was slated for April 12, marking the 81st anniversary of Buchenwald’s liberation by US troops. But the city of Weimar said on Monday it would ban the event on the memorial grounds.

|BySHIRA LI BARTOV/JTA
A portrait of Friedrich Torberg, Jan. 1, 1970.

A lost novel from 1943 that predicted the Holocaust has been recovered

Friedrich Torberg recorded his image of a German concentration camp in “Mein ist die Rache,” written decades before the capitalized “Holocaust” entered common parlance.

|BySHIRA LI BARTOV/JTA

This artist is fighting for a memorial for the 4000 killed in at Jungfernhof, a Nazi camp in Latvia

Over the last 17 years, Frostig has worked with a dogged determination to recognize the victims of Jungfernhof, a camp that’s not extensively documented.

MAY 17, 2024ByDEBORAH LYNN BLUMBERG/JTA
Karen Frostig has been working for nearly two decades to build a memorial at Jungfernhof, the Latvian site where the Nazis likely murdered her grandparents.

Saying ‘Never again is now’ to European Jews is an insult - opinion

Never again? If European governments are not prepared or are unwilling to turn words into action, these important words will have just been a platitude. And an insulting one at that. 

APRIL 12, 2024ByMENACHEM MARGOLIN
A DEMONSTRATOR holds a sign that reads “Never Again is Now” during a protest against right-wing extremism and the far-Right opposition Alternative for Germany (AfD), in Cologne, in January.

'Secret Jew': Polish ‘countess’ saved thousands of concentration camp prisoners from the Nazis.

Janina’s story was nearly lost to history, disclosed in an unpublished memoir that slipped through three pairs of hands before White and Sliwa embarked on corroborating it and researching their book.

FEBRUARY 13, 2024BySHIRA LI BARTOV/JTA
The barracks at Stutthof concentration camp after liberation.

Israeli man charged for inciting terror, rape, genocide of Palestinians

Noam Dayan, 34, was charged for inflammatory social media posts targeting Muslims and Gazan Palestinians in one of the most serious terror incitement cases of the Israel-Hamas War.

DECEMBER 19, 2023ByYOAV ETIEL/WALLA
Illustrative image of an arrest.

98-year-old German man charged with accessory to murder at Nazi concentration camp

Despite his advanced age, because he was younger than 21 at the time of the crimes, the suspect is being charged under juvenile criminal law at Hanau Regional Court.

SEPTEMBER 2, 2023ByJACKIE HAJDENBERG/JTA
A red flower is seen on a wall during a commemoration of the liberation of the former concentration camp KZ Mauthausen, at the memorial site in Mauthausen, Austria, May 7, 2023.

Sidney Taussig: The Holocaust survivor from Home One who saved history

Because of Sidney Taussig’s bravery in saving Vedem, his story and the stories of the other boys of Home One continue to be told.

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023ByEVE GLOVER
SIDNEY TAUSSIG in the documentary, ‘The Boys of Terezin.’

New virtual tours of Concentration Camps upgrade Holocaust education

A new project aims to preserve the memories of the Holocaust through virtual reality tours and experiences.

JULY 25, 2023ByYUVAL BAGNO/MAARIV
Auschwitz concentration camp in Oświęcim

German man who was oldest-ever person tried for Nazi crimes has died at 102

Schütz repeatedly denied the charges on him, but prosecutors presented evidence placing him at the camp and showing he killed Soviet prisoners of war.

APRIL 28, 2023ByJACKIE HAJDENBERG/JTA
A 101-year-old former security guard of the Sachsenhausen concentration camp appears in the courtroom before his trial verdict at the Landgericht Neuruppin court, in Brandenburg, Germany June 28, 2022.

Can social media become the new classroom for Holocaust education?

Studies show that millennials and Gen-Z do not know enough about the Holocaust, but social media could be a way to reach them with more knowledge.

APRIL 18, 2023BySHANNA FULD
Jewish Youth from all over the world participating in the March of the Living seen at the Auschwitz-Birkenau camp site in Poland, as Israel marks annual Holocaust Memorial Day, on April 16, 2015.

Israel must reassess its handling of Holocaust school trips to Poland - editorial

Reaching an agreement with Poland is an opportunity to reassess how the Holocaust education trips are handled within Israel.

APRIL 14, 2023ByJPOST EDITORIAL
Jewish Youth from all over the world participating in the March of the Living seen at the Auschwitz-Birkenau camp site in Poland, as Israel marks annual Holocaust Memorial Day, on April 16, 2015.