Auschwitz

German UN ambassador joins Auschwitz visit for first time as Danon warns of Iranian threats

The visit, organized by Danon’s task force against antisemitism, included Trinidad and Tobago’s ambassador, whose country joins the UN Security Council in January.

A delegation from over 20 countries visit Auschwitz with Israeli UN Ambassador Danny Danon on November 11, 2026.
Iran's Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi joins the EJA delegation to Auschwitz-Birkenau, November 10, 2026.

Reza Pahlavi receives EJA award, warns against Iran's global reach at Auschwitz memorial ceremony

European Jewish Association (EJA) Chairman Rabbi Menachem Margolin opens annual symposium and EJA delegation to Auschwitz, November 9, 2026.

EJA gathers in Krakow to urge European leaders for action against surging antisemitism

Alex Benjamin speaks at the European Jewish Association converence, November 9, 2026.

To understand Auschwitz, EJA first brings Europe's leaders back to Kristallnacht - interview


85 years later: Babyn Yar and the fight against deliberate erasure - opinion

On September 29 and 30, 1941, German forces, aided by local collaborators, murdered 33,771 Jews at Babyn Yar. In just two days, the lives of children, parents, and grandparents were cut short.

 Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskiy takes part in a commemoration ceremony for the victims of Babyn Yar (Babiy Yar), one of the biggest single massacres of Jews during the Nazi Holocaust, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Kyiv Ukraine September 29, 2022.

UN's Albanese claims Jews in Nazi camps were called ‘Muslims,’ distorts history of 'antisemitism'

“In fact, when they were being taken to the gas chambers, there are some accounts of life in the concentration camps saying that Jews were called ‘the Muslims,’” Albanese said.

United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Palestinian Territories Francesca Albanese holds a press conference at MACBA on May 08, 2026 in Barcelona, Spain.

Former England soccer star Wayne Rooney says grandma was Polish Jew during Auschwitz visit

"This news is a reminder that the idea that Jewish people are not sporty is a myth laced with antisemitic tropes about Jewish physical weakness," Campaign Against Antisemitism said.

Wayne Rooney attends the exclusive UK Premiere of "The Real Rooneys" on September 22, 2026 in London, England.

Can the darkest places inspire humanity’s brightest ideas? - opinion

With so many disruptions around us – and we haven’t even mentioned the climate, the economy, and AI yet – fresh thinking is needed. Not only new solutions, but also new ways of producing them.

HACKATHONERS DISCUSS ‘hasbara’ ideas last week at the Technion

LA Jewish Federation sues museum to recover Nazi-looted paintings held by Hermann Göring

LA Jewish Federation sues to recover Nazi-looted paintings once held by Hermann Göring.

Black and white photographs of the Adam and Eve Diptych painted by Lucas Cranach the Elder.

Yehuda Widawski, Israel’s oldest Holocaust survivor, dies at 107 on Rosh Hashanah

Born in Poland in 1919, Widawski was imprisoned with his family in the Lodz Ghetto following the Nazi invasion. He was later deported to Auschwitz, where he lost his parents and most of his siblings.

Yehuda Widawski.

'I am appalled': Holocaust survivor raises alarm over far-right AfD victory in Germany

The Alternative for Germany party's victory in the eastern state of Saxony-Anhalt on Sunday has left a far-right party within reach of power in a German state for the first time since World War II.

Top candidate of the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) Ulrich Siegmund attends the AfD election party after polls closed in the Saxony-Anhalt state elections and exit polls were announced, in Magdeburg, Germany, September 6, 2026.

Following DNA trails, a Jewish family shattered by the Holocaust discovers its lost branches

DISAPORA AFFAIRS: A DNA test revealed more than 50 relatives Adrianna Turk never knew existed, breaking decades of Holocaust silence and bringing her to Jerusalem to meet family she thought was lost.

FAMILY FOUND: Raanan Gidron welcomes his newly-discovered second cousin, Adrianna Turk, to Israel. After believing much of her family had been wiped out in the Holocaust, a DNA search revealed over 50 relatives scattered around the world.

Getting to know Etty Hillesum, the Holocaust diarist starring at the Israel Festival

Hillesum was 27 when she started putting pen to paper, much older than Frank and, hence, her writing relates to a more advanced stage of life and state of consciousness and awareness.

Neta Shpigelman identifies fully with Etty Hillesum, the Holocaust victim heroine of 'The Thinking Heart'

Stockholm pro-Palestine protest uses mock Auschwitz gate with word 'Gaza' to criticize Israel

The activists gathered to demand the release of Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya from Israeli detention while depicting Gazan mothers and babies alongside a man in a blood-covered Netanyahu costume.

Stockholm pro-Palestine protest uses mock Auschwitz gate with word 'Gaza' on July 11.