Holocaust

'Evil Zionist b****': Helen Mirren harassed on London streets over Israel support

The 80-year-old Oscar-winning actress was walking at night with her husband, director Taylor Hackford, a video posted on X/Twitter showed, when she was accosted.

DAME HELEN Mirren attends a reception at St James's Palace to mark International Women's Day and the fifteenth year of WOW on March 10, 2026 in London, England.
Exterior view of the new Yad Vashem Education Center in Munich.

Yad Vashem chooses Germany for first overseas education centers

Siddur from 1934, found hidden under the floorboards of an attic in what used to be Bedzin's Jewish Ghetto, May 27, 2026.

Star of David band, siddur found under attic floorboards in building from Bedzin's Jewish Ghetto

 A MEMORIAL service held on October 7 at the site of the Supernova festival in Re’im.

Jewish perspectives on God and parenting after October 7 trauma - opinion


From Vilna to Eretz Yisrael: One Holocaust survivor's journey to Israel

Dov Levin escaped the Kovno Ghetto, fought in the forests, and crossed war-torn Europe alone to reach Israel - documenting every step of a journey defined by loss, resilience, and purpose.

The Ninth Fort Memorial for Kovno Ghetto Jews executed by the Nazis, in Kaunus (Kovno), Lithuania.

Letters of love and survival: A Holocaust love story preserved at Yad Vashem

A young Orthodox couple in Hungary exchanged messages that sustained them through forced labor, ghettos, brazen escapes, and months in hiding.

(L-R): MEIR HIRSCHFELD, 1936. IDIT PAPA, 1942

Passover is over, but the story isn’t - opinion

On the eve of Pessah 1944, in Bergen-Belsen, two rabbis, Rabbi Aaron Davids and Rabbi Avraham Levison, confronted an unbearable question: What does one do when the Torah itself cannot be kept?

People celebrate the Passover Seder in an underground parking lot used as a public shelter during the ongoing war, April 1, 2026

Streaming services unveil Holocaust Memorial Day 2026 programming

A highlight of this programming will be a new HOT edition of Zikaron BaSalon (Hebrew for “Remembrance in the Living Room”), an intimate project in which Holocaust survivors recount their stories.

‘SHOAH’ BY Claude Lanzmann.

My Word: Beyond the 'Four Questions' - opinion

The Iranians do not know what they will hit, and they don’t care. For all their professed love of Jerusalem, rockets and shrapnel have hit the Holy City, including close to sites sacred to Muslims.

IDF Home Front Command forces in an impact site in Jerusalem

Grapevine, April 10, 2026: Toxic antisemitism

Movers and shakers in Israeli society.

PEOPLE ATTEND a vigil organised by the Campaign Against Antisemitism and Chabad UK to honour victims of the Bondi attack in Sydney and mark the second night of Hanukkah, in London, Britain, December 15, 2025.

Judge says ‘No case, no ruling’ in Credit Suisse – Simon Wiesenthal Center settlement dispute

In the late 1990s, Holocaust victims sued Swiss banks, arguing that the banks and their predecessor institutions collaborated with the Nazis by refusing to return assets belonging to victims.

A sign of a bank with a Swiss flag reflected on the window's building are pictured on March 20, 2009 in Geneva.

WATCH: 105-year-old Holocaust survivor celebrates birthday in bomb shelter during sirens

Approximately 196,000 Holocaust survivors are alive globally, with half of those living in Israel.

105-year-old Holocaust survivor Miriam celebrates her birthday with singer Regev Hot in a bomb shelter in Haifa in March 2026.

Modigliani painting looted, resold by Nazis returned to estate of rightful Jewish owner

The estate of Oscar Stettiner, a British-born Jewish art dealer in Paris, has been engaged in a lengthy legal battle to retrieve Seated Man With a Cane by Amadeo Modigliani.

Seated Man With a Cane by Amadeo Modigliani

A lost novel from 1943 that predicted the Holocaust has been recovered

Friedrich Torberg recorded his image of a German concentration camp in “Mein ist die Rache,” written decades before the capitalized “Holocaust” entered common parlance.

A portrait of Friedrich Torberg, Jan. 1, 1970.