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


Auschwitz artifacts to be unveiled on Holocaust Memorial Day

Items include jewelry, watches, brushes, keys, buttons and other "unusual, symbolic traces of the victims."

Personal items discovered in 1967 around the Auschwitz gas chambers and crematoria.

Archaeologists unearth jewelry likely removed from Nazi gas chamber victims

Among items is unique pendant, resembling one which belonged to Anne Frank.

Jewellery unearthed by archaeologists at Sobibor that was likely removed by Nazi gas chamber victims‏

Thoughts on Rudolf Kastner

My maternal grandparents were an elderly, very gentle couple, low-key and low-profile, who had been subjected to virulent antisemitism for many years.

A WORLD War II memorial of Holocaust and Nazi crimes on the banks of the Danube River in Budapest.

Stolen iron gate of Nazi death camp found in Norway

Television footage showing piles of bodies and starved inmates of the camp were among the first images the world saw of the Holocaust.

The camp gate with the inscription "to give each his due" is pictured at former concentration camp Buchenwald near Weimar

Sharing a deeply personal experience

I was born in Antwerp, Belgium, and fortunate enough at the age of four, on the eve of World War II, to have been taken by my parents to Australia.

ABIGAIL LEIBLER and No’a Ehrman-Loebenberg on a trip to Birkenau, earlier this month

Fragments of history

A Yad Vashem team travels the country in search of pieces of family memories salvaged from the Holocaust.

Yonatan Rosen playing his father’s violin

Himmler’s diary discovered in Russia

He writes in 1943 about witnessing the “effectiveness” of the diesel engines used to gas prisoners at the Sobibor death camp.

In this compelling documentary, the life of SS officer Heinrich Himmler unfolds through film footage and the letters he wrote during the war.

Dark years on the Côte d’Azur

An exhibition of the work of Jewish artist Charlotte Salomon, sent to her death in Auschwitz, brings to light the role played by locals in deporting the region’s Jews in WWII.

A self-portrait of Charlotte Salomon in Villefranche-sur- Mer, where she resided with her maternal grandparents after leaving Germany in 1939

Holocaust-themed play by Polish writer causes stir in Los Angeles

Right Left With Heels, a surrealistic play by Sebastian Majewski, tracks a pair of high-heeled shoes made from the skin of a Jewish prisoner murdered in Auschwitz.

Auschwitz-Birkenau

Hundreds of illegally traded artifacts seized by Antiquities Authority in Jerusalem

Raid of Mamilla Mall shop follows new regulations by IAA to monitor international black market.

Inspectors from the IAA’s Unit for the Prevention of Antiquities >> Robbery during the Tuesday aid of the Mamilla store.