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


The sounds of Babyn Yar

Holocaust Memorial Center unveils outdoor memorials that present a haunting combination of audio and visual elements

Mirror Field Memorial at Babyn Yar

A Jewish artist hid hundreds of paintings. Now the works need a home.

The works of Czech artist Gertrud Kauders (1883-1942) were found during the demolition of an old house near Prague in 2018.

Gertrud Kauders hid about 700 of her paintings in a classmate's house during WWII.

Toronto's new United Building - more than just a restoration

Child of Holocaust survivors celebrates a tremendous success in the business arena, while fighting hatred and racism at the same time

The new building

Prisoners' items found in hiding place at Auschwitz

It is still too early to say why these tools were hidden and what they were used for.

Items concealed by prisoners found in Block 17 of the former Auschwitz main camp, April 21, 2020

Hana’s suitcase - Hiroshima and the Holocaust

A trip to Hiroshima uncovers an unexpected connection to the Holocaust

Hana Brady's suitcase

Moscow Jewish Museum Launches Online Exhibition on Love During Holocaust

Memories of weddings and secret dates in the ghetto, of forbidden gifts, of mutual care and support, of dreams of home, family, and their own country fill the space.

Moscow’s Jewish Museum and Tolerance Center

Most of Nazi trove discovered in Buenos Aires are fakes

The German news service Spiegel reported that 62 of the 72 objects or sets of objects are “counterfeit or falsifications.”

Nazi artifacts at a news conference at the Holocaust museum in Buenos Aires

Poland honors Jewish leader working to recognize Holocaust rescuers

Lados and another member of the group, Stefan Ryniewicz, did not receive the title, spurring a protest by 30 survivors and the Polish honorary consul in Zurich, Markus Blechner.

A local resident of the Polish town of Karminowice near Lublin places a stone to honor the memory of Jewish victims of the Holocaust

Holocaust museum opens in Macedonia, $23 million dollar project complete

Macedonia, a landlocked country north of Greece, had a Jewish population of about 8,000 before the Holocaust, “and more than 98 percent of them were murdered by the Nazis and their collaborators,”

Prime Minister of Macedonia Zoran Zaev visits Yad Vashem in Jerusalem

What a Bergen-Belsen prenup teaches us about Jewish resilience

The Star of David found on a Bergen-Belsen ketubah is an expression of that life-affirming impetus.

a holocaust survivor wears a yellow Star of David on his jacket during a ceremony marking Holocaust Remembrance Day at Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial in Jerusalem