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


How a Canadian comic set up a combination pop-up store/Holocaust museum

It all started back in 2015, when Fielder was still regularly wearing a jacket made by Taiga, a Vancouver-based sportswear company; he can be seen in it in many of his show’s early episodes.

PEOPLE LINE UP to enter the new Summit Ice store in Vancouver, Washington, where they can trade in their old jackets and learn about the Holocaust at the same time

Auschwitz temporarily closes after naked visitors chain themselves together

Immediately following the incident museum security secured the area and police were called.

Auschwitz-Birkenau

Canadian family discovers heirloom on display at Yad Vashem

Powder compact was given by husband to his wife in Lodz ghetto.

STUDENTS FROM Germany visit the Hall of Names at Yad Vashem in Jerusalem

Switzerland to launch Holocaust remembrance app

The app, called Fliehen vor dem Holocaust, or Escaping the Holocaust, allows users to learn about the fate of four individuals using multimedia tools.

ROMANIAN JEWS visit an exhibition about the Holocaust in Romania at the Elie Wiesel Institute for Holocaust Studies during the annual Holocaust Remembrance Day in Bucharest in 2006.

The unlikeliest storyteller

‘We didn’t know anyone Jewish while we were growing up.’

Moon landscape pencil on paper, as painted by 14-year-old Jewish prisoner Petr Ginz (1928-1944) in Terezin Ghetto in 1942. He died in Auschwitz two years later

Accessing Hitler’s archives

100 million records stayed sealed away in Germany for decades.

German chancellor Adolf Hitler looks out at a rally staged by the Nazi Party

Historian Yaffa Eliach’s archives donated to Yad Vashem

The papers were meticulously organized and arrived from New York in 500 boxes weighing around a ton in total.

STUDENTS FROM Germany visit the Hall of Names at Yad Vashem in Jerusalem

'Yolocaust' site taken down by creator

The site, which referenced the acronym for “you only live once,” had featured a dozen selfies taken at the Berlin memorial and shared on social media platforms.

People jump from concrete elements of the Holocaust memorial in Berlin

The letter as testimony

‘Handwriting is very unique. It’s like a fingerprint.’

Entry permit to Eretz Yisrael from 1947 of Rachel Tytelman, who is still well and active, and lives in Tel Aviv

'Last letters from the Holocaust' displayed in Yad Vashem project

In a new exhibition launched online for International Holocaust Remembrance Day, Yad Vashem exposes the moving last words people in the Holocaust sent to their loved ones.

The last words: one of the letters displayed in the exhibition