Holocaust artifacts

Faith under persecution: Yad Vashem exhibit on keeping the Jewish calendar in the Shoah opens

Handwritten calendars, prayer books, and testimonies at Yad Vashem show how Jewish life and tradition endured during the Holocaust.

Megilat Hitler, now displayed at Yad Vashem's active synagogue, which opened on January 1.
The last Jew in Vinnitsa

Nazi killer in infamous ‘Last Jew in Vinnitsa’ picture finally identified using AI

A march to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Buchenwald concentration camp, April 6, 2025. Many of the items due to be auctioned at Felzmann auction house were from the camp.

Germany halts Holocaust artifacts auction amid widespread criticism

Yellow badge Star of David

German auction sells personal letters, Nazi records, and forced sterilization documents


UK to launch investigation into two concentration camps on British soil

To date, there has never been a formal investigation into the number of deaths that occurred on Alderney during the Holocaust.

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.

Landmark exhibits shed light on life in German displaced person camps after the Holocaust

Life in the DP camps is the subject of a collaborative exhibition between Munich’s Jewish Museum and its City Museum, situated across the square from each other in the city’s center.

 People pay tribute during a wreath-laying ceremony marking Holocaust Remembrance Day in the Hall of Remembrance at Yad Vashem, the World Holocaust Remembrance Centre, in Jerusalem, April 18, 2023.

Russian media releases declassified documents on the Holocaust – report

Russia has released new documents claiming that Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania were highly involved in the murder of Jews during the Holocaust.

 Members of Latvian Auxiliary Police assemble a group of Jews, Liepāja, July, 1941.

What should Jews think of Poland?

MIDDLE ISRAEL: The fact that it wasn’t Nazism’s accomplice doesn't mean it wasn't plagued by antisemitism.

 A MAN carries an Israeli flag during the annual March of the Living through the grounds of the former Auschwitz death camp last year.

UK hosts first international forum of envoys for post-Holocaust property restitution

More than 20 envoys from over 10 countries discussed how to obtain justice for Holocaust survivors, whose property was seized during the Shoah.

 Holocaust envoys with UK Foreign Secretary James Cleverly.

Holocaust artifacts can be ambassadors of remembrance - opinion

It is incumbent on us to ensure that this commitment to remembering the Holocaust victims as individuals, with their personal attributes, aspirations, hopes and dreams.

 Yad Vashem chairman Dani Dayan.

Passion and determination help solve family mysteries - opinion

As the High Holy Days approach, the importance of introspection and self-reflection cannot be overemphasized. We owe it to ourselves and those we love to make positive resolutions for the new year.

 ‘THE SEARCH for Major Plagge’ – The Wehrmacht officer made honorable choices, despite the fact that those choices put his life at risk from the Nazi war machine.

New digital archives show Vienna Jews' efforts to escape before WWII

The archive contains the then-200,000-strong Jewish community’s filings as they attempted to get visas and flee Austria before World War II began.

 The entrance of the Shoah Wall of Names Memorial bearing the names of 64,000 Austrian Jews who were killed in the Holocaust is seen ahead of its opening in Vienna, Austria November 9, 2021.

Antisemitic 'Zionists are Nazis' graffiti found in Jerusalem Holocaust Museum

Messages including "Zionists = Nazis," "Zionists are responsible for the Holocaust" and "Cursed Zionists, your end is near" were graffitied at the Chamber of the Holocaust Museum in Jerusalem.

 Antisemitic graffiti tying Zionists to Nazis written at the Chamber of the Holocaust Museum in Mount Zion in Jerusalem, June 8, 2022.

Four rarely-seen Torahs to be featured in National Library of Israel

The featured items include fragments from a 1,000 year-old Yemenite Torah scroll, as well as one of the world's smallest legible Torah scrolls, measuring just 6 centimeters in height.

 World's smallest Torah