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Poland returns 91 Jewish objects to Greece, decades after they were stolen by Nazis

Poland returned 91 religious and ceremonial artifacts to the Greek government at a ceremony in Warsaw on Wednesday. Among them were Torah scrolls, a Torah mantle and silver finials.

A synagogue napkin made from satin, cotton and metal tassels is among the items being returned from Poland to Greece.
 United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.

US Holocaust Memorial Museum acquires rare World War II-era Captain America comics

Azerbaijan's President Ilham Aliyev speaks during a signing event with U.S. President Donald Trump and Armenia's Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan (not pictured), at the White House, in Washington, DC, August 8, 2025.

Aliyev’s Nazi comparison of Armenian leaders is outrageous and dangerous - opinion

A US Coast Guard official looks through binoculars at the ship Marinera (Ex-Bella 1) in this handout image released January 7, 2026.

Swastika found at US Coast Guard training center in New Jersey, referred for investigation


Misusing Holocaust memory: It harms the lessons we need most - opinion

It has become common, too common, for Jewish and non-Jewish groups alike to use Holocaust comparisons when speaking about present-day affairs. Protesters liken immigration policies to Nazi Germany.

 A SIGN on a lawn in Dearborn, Michigan, reads: ‘End the genocide in Gaza.’

Weleda collaborated with the Nazis: Frost bite cream may have been used in Dachau SS experiments

German historian Anne Sudrow published a study that described close personal relationships between Weleda and the SS and ties among Anthroposophists, Demeter Agriculture, and the SS.

Dachau.

Buchenwald Memorial allowed to refuse entry to people wearing keffiyehs, court rules

This comes after a visitor filed an expedited court application requesting she be allowed to wear a keffiyeh during her visit to the Buchenwald Memorial camp.

A visitor stands in front of a watchtower behind a fence on the grounds of the former Nazi concentration camp Buchenwald near Weimar

Homeland Security speechwriter promotes antisemitic ‘Great Replacement’ theory on podcast

Several months after the Buffalo shooting, which killed 10 shoppers, Eric Lendrum endorsed the theory on his podcast, and it was not for the first time.

DHS speechwriter Eric Lendrum.

M15 suspected Rolex founder of being Nazi spy - Telegraph

The British consul in Geneva would go on to report that Wilsdorf was “well known for his strong Nazi sympathies.” 

A logo of Swiss watchmaker Rolex is pictured on a store in Paris, France, August 4, 2025.

Germany's shift: Moral commitment vs political reality - opinion

The the ongoing war in Gaza has reinvigorated Germany’s internal debate: Can abstract moral universality be reconciled with particular responsibility to the Jewish people?

GERMAN FOREIGN MINISTER Johann Wadephul speaks at a news conference at the King David Hotel in Jerusalem last month. Germany raises its voice not because it forgot its past but because it remembers it, says the writer.

Ben-Gvir accuses Germany of 'once again supporting Nazism' as FM visits Israel

Ben-Gvir's comments drew the condemnation of FM Gideon Sa'ar, who referred to the far-Right minister's remarks as "unnecessary and harmful."

 National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir seen at the Supreme Court in Jerusalem, July 17, 2025

Yad Vashem: Israel's war in Gaza is not genocide, but we must act morally - exclusive

To equate the IDF, fighting to protect Israeli citizens from a terrorist army that embeds itself within civilian areas, with the Nazis, is not only false, but morally reprehensible.

Palestinian journalists report on the war and ongoing humanitarian crisis in the central Gaza Strip, July 26, 2025

This week in Jewish history: Miracle aids and antibiotics

A highly abridged weekly version of Dust & Stars – Today in Jewish History.

 THANK YOU, Selman Waksman, for isolating streptomycin.

Lost music from Auschwitz performed after 80 years

The music Geyer documented was played for the first time in 80 years at London’s Bloomsbury Theatre on June 3-7, 2025.

 THE WORDS ‘arbeit macht frei’ hang above the gate at Auschwitz.