Holocaust

Congress removes deadline for Holocaust-looted art claims, opening door to more restitution The controversial "sunset clause" of a 2016 law led watchdogs to believe that those owning looted works were purposefully obscuring them from public view until the deadline had passed. A judge ruled in 2026 that Amedeo Modigliani's "Seated…

JERUSALEM—Ara Jeretzian, a survivor of the Armenian Genocide, noticed chilling parallels to his own family’s experiences when Budapest’s Jews were ordered into a ghetto by the Nazis in 1944. After having escaped the slaughter of Armenians, including his own family members, in Ottoman Turkey in 1918, Jeretzian used his influence…

SEOUL, April 15 (Reuters) - South Korea's Foreign Minister Cho Hyun said on Wednesday a high-level Israeli offical said it accepted Seoul's explanation of President Lee Jae Myung's social media remarks on the Holocaust and that the situation had been resolved. Lee sparked a diplomatic row and domestic criticism after…

A participant wrapped into a flag of Israel stands at the main gate with the lettering “Arbeit macht frei” (work sets you free) at the start of the annual March of The Living to commemorate the victims of the Holocaust during World War II, at the memorial site of the…

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U.S. Capitol Building in Washington, D.C. Credit: Olichel/Pixabay. ( Apr. 13, 2026 / JNS ) U.S. President Donald Trump signed legislation into law on Monday that helps Holocaust survivors and their families recover artwork looted by the Nazis. The bill , the Holocaust Expropriated Art Recovery Act of 2025, will…

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declared that Israel, in coordination with the United States, has delivered the "heaviest blow" in the history of the Iranian leadership.  His remarks were made during a state ceremony at the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial center in Jerusalem on Monday, April 13marking the start of…

Judith Nemes Black’s earliest memories are steeped in trauma. She remembers being forced from her home to move to a ghetto; waking up in the night and calling for her mother, who was gone; carrying the secret of living under a false identity; hiding in a dark cellar as bombs…

The Jewish population is estimated at about 15.8 million, still below pre-Holocaust levels, when between 16.5 and 16.7 million Jews lived worldwide, including roughly 9.5 million in Europe, according to data released on Sunday by Israel’s Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS) ahead of Holocaust Remembrance Day. The report shows that…

On Monday evening, Israelis will mark Yom HaShoah, or Holocaust Remembrance Day. The solemn annual observance will be commemorated nationwide with official ceremonies, alongside local events, school programs, and private moments of remembrance, as survivors and their descendants honor the Holocaust in their own ways. According to statistics, roughly 100,000…