Nazis

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

“Someone had prepared a special place for [the siddur] in the attic,” the foundation explained. “Behind a separately partitioned space. Under a constructed hatch. Alone. Without other objects."

Siddur from 1934, found hidden under the floorboards of an attic in what used to be Bedzin's Jewish Ghetto, May 27, 2026.
YIVO'S EDDY Portnoy, who curated the exhibit "Jews Are Magic," with a reproduction of a High Holiday card featuring a Jewish palm reader, Warsaw c. 1910.

'Jews are Magic': Museum exhibit explores Jewish fascination with occultism

SHEINA GUTNICK, whose father was killed in a mass shooting at Bondi Beach, speaks to the media after the first hearing block of the Royal Commission on Antisemitism and Social Cohesion in Sydney on May 4, 2026.

First hearings for Australia commission end after Jews share stories of antisemitism

Activists have set up a pro-Palestinian camp on Hamburg's Moorweide, which a German court permitted over the objections of the city and Jewish community, May 10, 2026.

German court allows pro-Palestinian encampment in Hamburg park where Jews were deported by Nazis


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.

Staro Sajmiste: Belgrade's fairground of death for the Balkans' Jews

From formidable fairground to a camp of death, the dark history of the Nazi camp within Belgrade’s borders

 Prisoners of the Staro Sajmište concentration camp in Belgrade.

Thompson promotes Holocaust distortion - his lies unchallenged - opinion

Perković is a fanatic Croatian nationalist who is a great admirer of the Ustasha (ustaša), a notorious terrorist movement.

 Stage is being built for the Croatian singer Marko Perkovic Thompson poised to break world record for largest paid concert in Zagreb, Croatia, July 2, 2025.

Small Illinois town reeling after Nazi symbol appears in yard

A swastika mowed into a front lawn in the Illinois town of Alhambra prompted a hate-crime investigation by Madison County authorities last week.

A Nazi armband with a swastika displayed in the Deutsches Historisches Museum, Berlin, Germany

Grapevine, May 25, 2025: Resilience in the face of racism

Movers and shakers in Israeli society.

L-R) DANNA AZRIELI, Yeshayahu Menat, and Galit Gal

The Dragon from Chicago: On the American reporting from Nazi Germany - book review

Sigrid Schultz was the historic figure branded “that dragon from Chicago” by Hermann Göring, Hitler’s number two man angered by Schultz’s fearless reporting about the Nazis. 

 HERMANN GÖRING (first row, far L) and other Nazi criminals in the dock at the Nuremberg Trials, 1945-46

Three British neo-Nazis convicted of planning attack as part of 'race war'

The three pleaded not guilty to counts of preparing an act of terrorism, but they were all convicted by the Sheffield Crown Court.

Marchers on the far-right are seen in London, Britain, on October 26, 2024