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


Researchers find Jewish headstones at the Nazi killing site of Babi Yar

Starting in September 1941, Nazis and local collaborators murdered more than 150,00 people, including 50,000 Jews, at the Babi Yar ravine.

Monument to the Murdered at Babi Yar, Kiev

Argentina delivers thousands of WWII-era documents to US Holocaust museum

The documents include letters, telegrams, newspaper articles, notes and reports.

Nazi artifacts seized from a house in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in June 2017.

French university may be holding remains of Holocaust victims

A team of historians stated that remains in the collections may belong to Jewish Holocaust victims following two years of research.

University Palace, main building of the University of Strasbourg

Beit Berl: Our student did not steal from Auschwitz

Museum demands Israel return Holocaust-era items

Some of the artifacts allegedly stolen from the Auschwitz Museum by art student Rotem Bides.

US congressman apologizes for filming inside Auschwitz gas chamber

The Anne Frank Center condemned the video.

The Nazi slogan "Arbeit macht frei" (Work sets you free) is pictured at the gates of the former Nazi German concentration and extermination camp Auschwitz-Birkenau in Oswiecim, Poland January 27, 2017

The limousine of evil

Following World War II, more than one of Hitler’s Mercedes cars wound up in the US.

Adolf Hitler waves to crowds in his six-seater Mercedes car in this undated World War II file photo

Auschwitz Museum online exhibit marks first deportation

Since 2006, Poland marks June 14 to remember victims of camps.

Hungarian Jews disembark from trains at the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp in the summer of 1944

Yad Vashem to present President Trump with unique personal artifact

A relative of the memento's owner will be in attendance at Donald Trump's visit to Israel's Holocaust memorial, Yad Vashem.

Ester and Margot Goldstein

$50,000 from auction of Anne Frank poem to finance Holocaust memorial

It was a highly personal childhood gift.

Anne Frank.

Amsterdam repairman discovers Holocaust victims’ 1941 application for US visa

The repairman found a suitcase in his home and passed it on to Jewish Historical Museum in Amsterdam, saying that he suspected "it must have something to do with the war."

Commemorative candles to mark International Holocaust Remembrance Day