Holocaust

Congress’s mouthiest liar will be spending the next seven years in prison. A federal judge sentenced former Representative George Santos to 87 months in the clink on Friday. The reputed hustler—who was caught fabricating his entire résumé and lying about his relation to Holocaust survivors, his connection to the 2016…

Amsterdam Mayor Femke Halsema speaks during the Yom HaShoah Holocaust remembrance day at the Hollandsche Schouwburg Jewish cultural quarter in Amsterdam, on April 24, 2025. Photo by Koen van Weel/ANP/AFP via Getty Images Article content AMSTERDAM — The mayor of Amsterdam apologized Thursday for the role the Dutch capital played…

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…

US President Donald Trump and Israeli prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu holding a joint press conference at the White House in Washington D.C., February 4, 2025. Photo by Liri Agami/Flash90 U.S. President Donald Trump released an official proclamation on Wednesday evening announcing the observance of Yom HaShoah, Holocaust Remembrance Day, paying…

Former President of the Supreme Court Aharon Barak attends the swearing in ceremony of Justice Isaac Amit as president of the Supreme Court, at the president residence in Jerusalem, February 13, 2025. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90 Holocaust survivor and former president of the Israeli Supreme Court, Aharon Barak, recalled his…

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…