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


Supreme Court rules Jewish art dealer can use US courts to recover painting taken by Nazis

In a unanimous ruling Thursday, the justices found that the dispute could be debated in court in California.

 Supreme Court nominee Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson testifies during her confirmation hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee in the Hart Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill, March 22, 2022.

Holocaust memorial: Unlikely 'Auschwitz tattoo kit' was used on Jews

The eight fingernail-sized steel dies, each lined with pins to form numerals, were offered last year by a Jerusalem auctioneer for $30,000 to $40,000.

 The dies from a tattoo kit, and a manual, are displayed at an Israeli auction house which says they were used on inmates at Auschwitz death camp, in Gilo, Jerusalem, November 2, 2021. Picture taken November 2, 2021.

Signed photo of Hitler presented at Australian auction

This isn't the first time that Danielle Elizabeth Auctions in Queensland, Australia has come under fire for Nazi memoabilia sales.

German Fuhrer Adolf Hitler doing a Nazi salute

Lost Torah scroll reappears in German town 83 years after disappearance

The Torah had not been seen since Kristallnacht, the pogrom against synagogues and Jewish property in German-speaking lands on Nov. 9 and 10, 1938.

 Uwe Mader with the Torah scroll fragments he handed over to the city of Görlitz, Thursday, Dec. 16, 2021.

A tree that survived the Holocaust gains a new life in New York City

Of the 15,000 children who were imprisoned in Theresienstadt during the Holocaust, fewer than 200 survived. But when the camp was liberated in 1945, the tree was still standing.

 Students from Battery Park City School watch as silver maple was planted in Battery Park outside the Museum of Jewish Heritage. The dedication ceremony will be held on Dec. 2.

New York family reunited with heirloom Bible thought lost in the Holocaust

Susi Kasper Leiter and her grandson Jacob Leiter got an unexpected message from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum saying a piece of their family past had been rediscovered.

 A HOLOCAUST SURVIVOR holds a Torah as he arrives at the entrance to Auschwitz for the annual March of the Living marking Holocaust Remembrance Day in May.

“Babyn Yar. Context" screens in Israeli premiere at Jerusalem Film Festival

The film is produced by renowned Ukrainian director Sergei Loznitsa, with the support of the Babyn Yar Holocaust Memorial Center.

 Archives of the Hamburg Institute for Social Research

Bible belonging to couple killed in Holocaust returned to family

The bible belonging to Eduard and Ernestine Leiter was found hidden in their old house in Germany 30 years ago.

 Susi Kasper Leiter and Jacob Leiter hold family bible.

Yad Vashem opens exhibition 80 years since Operation Barbarossa

A new online exhibition tells unpublished accounts of Jewish families caught up in the horror of the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union and the onset of the Holocaust.

The Bernstein Family from Ylakiai in Lithuania during the Holocaust.

‘Humans of Holocaust’ exhibition presents portraits, survivor experiences

The project, involving 27 Holocaust survivors, depicts and describes the suffering and triumph of those who survived the Nazi genocide.

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