Holocaust

(May 31, 2023 / JNS) The German shoe and apparel company Adidas has gone back and forth on what to do with some $1 billion in shoes associated with “Ye” (Kanye West), following the musician’s antisemitic statements. First, Adidas was not going to sell the merchandise, and then it announced…

(May 31, 2023 / JNS) Polish Parliament member Grzegorz Braun in 2019. Credit: Adrian Grycuk via Wikimedia Commons. A member of the Polish parliament allegedly assaulted a Polish-Canadian historian on May 31 who suggested that Poland was complicit in Nazi atrocities. Jan Grabowski was speaking at the German Historical Institute…

Bloomfield Auctions/PressEye/PA The pencil purportedly belonging to Hitler which will be listed for auction next week. # Nazi memorabilia Belfast auction house urged to withdraw the sale of a pencil belonging to Hitler Oliver Sears, whose mother is a Holocaust survivor, said the auction is about ‘making money at all…

(May 30, 2023 / JNS) As of this month, the Jewish Museum Berlin is home to a collection of objects that is listed on the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) Memory of the World Register. The original 16mm and restored 35mm film footage which French journalist Claude…

Jonathan Glazer, who won the runner-up prize at this year's Cannes Film Festival on Saturday for his Holocaust drama "The Zone of Interest", has made just a handful of films in 20 years. But each one has been unique, drawing highly memorable performances from stars such as Nicole Kidman, Ben…

(May 25, 2023 / JNS) Some of the leading Jewish and Zionist organizations from around the country offered a range of reactions to the new federal antisemitism strategy announced on May 25. CEO of the American Jewish Committee Ted Deutch called it a “historic day” and said that “in adopting…

(May 25, 2023 / JNS) The unspeakable performance by Roger Waters in Berlin last week crossed a number of new red lines, even for him. The former Pink Floyd guitarist has long been infamous for his venomous attacks on Israel and antisemitic remarks. Few, though, could ever have imagined that…

JTA – In late April, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis visited Jerusalem, voicing support for West Bank settlements, touting a law he had just signed giving families thousands of dollars per year in private school tuition vouchers and signing a bill that increased penalties for antisemitic harassment. Two weeks later, his…

Movies Jonathan Glazer’s The Zone of Interest and Steve McQueen’s Occupied City come up with radical approaches to portraying this atrocity. Scenes from The Zone of Interest (left) and Occupied City (right). Photo illustration by Slate. Photos via A24. The most chilling moment in Claude Lanzmann’s nine-hour Holocaust documentary Shoah…

The Nazis may have stripped Holocaust survivor Marie Doduck of her childhood, but they could never take her stories. Doduck was five when soldiers invaded her hometown of Brussels, Belgium, in 1940 and she was forced into hiding for years, until the war ended and she was sent to Canada…