Holocaust

A ceremony held at the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial Museum in Jerusalem, as Israel marks the annual Holocaust Remembrance Day. April 23, 2025. Photo by Chaim Goldberg/Flash90 Holocaust survivors Monika Barzel, Arie Durst, Rachel Katz, Felix Soren, Gad Fartouk, and Arie Reiter lit torches this evening (Wednesday) at the official…

After Hamas’s attack on Israel on October 7th, 2023, and the ensuing war in Gaza, a protest movement roiled college campuses across the country. The movement was primarily focussed on the enormous death toll in Gaza, and the United States’s support for Israel, although some of the demonstrations included incidents…

(The Conversation) — The Holocaust could not have happened without the railways. Preeminent Holocaust scholar Raul Hilberg underscored that almost everyone murdered at a camp arrived by train, including Jews, political prisoners and other “undesirables.” Since the 1990s, groups of survivors have asked European railway companies to acknowledge and atone…

Stars like Cindy Crawford participated in “Borrowed Spotlight,” posing with Holocaust survivors like Ella Mandel. Bryce Thompson Cindy Crawford, Jennifer Garner, Billy Porter and other stars posed for portraits with Holocaust survivors in an effort to educate people about that dark time in history. Photographer Bryce Thompson — who has…

Holocaust survivor Edith Bruck stands in from of the mural "The Star of David Edith Bruck" in Rome. Photo by Ariel Nacamulli Article content A Holocaust artwork vandalized in an antisemitic attack in Italy went on display Tuesday at the Museum of the Shoah in Rome. THIS CONTENT IS RESERVED…

Irmgard Furchner, a German secretary who dutifully served the commandant of a Nazi concentration camp, a chapter of her early life that was exhumed decades later when she was convicted of being an accessory to more than 10,000 murders in one of the final efforts to bring legal justice to…

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Books on the Holocaust, histories of feminism, civil rights and racism, and Maya Angelou’s famous autobiography, “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings,” were among the nearly 400 volumes removed from the U.S. Naval Academy’s library this week after Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s office ordered the school to get rid…

Josh Emmett had already seen his devastating knockout of Bryce Mitchell seemingly hundreds of times, but the stunning finish found new life in recent months. Back in January, Mitchell landed in the spotlight for all the wrong reasons after he debuted his new podcast and decided that was the right…

The story of a Holocaust survivor has been brought to life through a play at a Didcot school. Aureus School hosted the Voices of the Holocaust theatre organisation for a performance of 'Kindness: A Legacy of the Holocaust'. The play by Cate Hollis and Mark Wheeller has so far been seen…