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.
Nazi killer in infamous ‘Last Jew in Vinnitsa’ picture finally identified using AI
Germany halts Holocaust artifacts auction amid widespread criticism
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."
Archaeologists unearth jewelry likely removed from Nazi gas chamber victims
Among items is unique pendant, resembling one which belonged to Anne Frank.
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.
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.
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.
Fragments of history
A Yad Vashem team travels the country in search of pieces of family memories salvaged from the Holocaust.
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.
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.
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.
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.