World war ii

For the first time in decades, Israel is imposing its will on Hamas - opinion

A weakened Hamas, expanding Israeli control, and regional backing are reshaping Gaza’s future.

Gunmen stand guard at the funeral of Marwan Issa, a senior Hamas deputy military commander who was killed in an Israeli airstrike during the conflict between Israel and Hamas, amid a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas, in the central Gaza Strip, February 7, 2025.
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

The Niels Bohr Institute in Copenhagen was founded in 1921 as the Institute for Theoretical Physics of the University of Copenhagen by Danish theoretical physicist Niels Bohr.

‘Copenhagen’ in Jerusalem revisits the Nazi-era meeting that shaped the nuclear age

Russia’s Jewish community marks 81 years since Nazi Germany’s surrender in World War II, May 2026.

Jewish communities worldwide mark Liberation and Rescue Day amid rising antisemitism


'Dangerous distortion,' Auschwitz Museum calls out AI-generated images of Holocaust victims

The museum claims that the Facebook page 90's History has been producing AI images of Auschwitz victims, using "real content," from its website.

 Screenshot of an image published by the Facebook page 90's History (left), which the Auschwitz Museum claims has been AI-generated using information and photographs (right) from its website.

Operation Benjamin: Finding lost Jewish-American war heroes and honoring their memory

An organization tracks down the Jewish heroes of World Wars I and II, and honors them with the symbol of their faith, even more than a century after they made the ultimate sacrifice.

 OPERATION BENJAMIN’S co-founder and chief historian, Shalom Lamm, estimates that between 600 and 900 American Jewish soldiers from both World Wars are mistakenly buried under crosses. Here, late US serviceman Howard Feldman receives a Jewish headstone.

Review: Meet the woman who saved countless art masterpieces from the Nazis

Valland is the real-life heroine of “The Art Spy,” a curator at Jeu de Paume Museum in Paris in the 1940s.

 The other fresh element of “Art Spy” is that Young juxtaposes Rose’s story with that of wealthy-heir-turned-Allied-soldier Alexandre Rosenberg, whose Jewish family fled Paris and had their mammoth art collection ripped from the walls of their home.

French Jewish WWII spy Marthe Cohn dies at 105

During her time as a spy, she was able to provide the French military with information on German positions, contributing to several notable victories.

Marthe Cohn

Argentina's top court finds 80 boxes of Nazi materials in its basement

The Argentinian officials found postcards, photographs, notebooks, and propaganda material from the Nazi regime.

 Employees handle a box with Nazi-related material that was among several boxes originally confiscated by local authorities when they were shipped to Argentina in 1941, after the boxes were recently discovered by chance in the archives of the Supreme Court of Argentina, in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Victory over Nazism and the rise of a Jewish homeland: a personal reflection – opinion

80 years after VE day, a survivor of the Holocaust reflects on antisemtism, the Nazi regime, and the modern State of Israel.

  Starving Holocaust survivors. Bones are brittle and muscles are atrophied

Germany's new challenges 80 years after VE day: AfD, antisemitism, and new politics

EUROPE AFFAIRS: The political climate in Germany is shifting as the AfD rises in power, raising concerns about the future of Holocaust memory and the country’s commitment to Shoah remembrance.

 ‘YOU CAN’T ban 10 million AfD voters.’ Amid the tensions in Germany over the rise of the far right, new German Chancellor Friedrich Merz stands at the Neue Wache Memorial for Victims of War and Tyranny during commemorations to mark the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II.

'Israel knows what’s best for national security,’ ambassador to Germany tells 'Post'

DIPLOMATIC AFFAIRS: Ambassador to Germany Ron Prosor speaks to The Jerusalem Post on 60 years of diplomatic relations between the countries.

 ‘[ISRAELI-GERMAN] relations are not to be taken for granted.’ Ambassador to Germany Ron Prosor delivers a speech during a commemoration ceremony at the Bergen-Belsen Memorial in Lohheide, northern Germany, in April, to mark the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the concentration camp.

Former chief rabbi Lau at Knesset: Only unity can overcome evil, then and now

Recounting his liberation from Buchenwald, Rabbi Lau described hiding among corpses during the camp's final days.

Former Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi of Israel and Holocaust survivor, Rabbi Yisrael Meir Lau, tells his story of survival, May 7, 2025.

VE Day in Israel: Celebrating the 80th anniversary and Jewish heroes of the war

The State of Israel also commemorates VE Day on May 9 largely as a result of the massive wave of immigration from the former Soviet bloc during the 1990s.

Veterans march through Jerusalem to mark WW2 Victory in Europe Day.