Holocaust

Israeli Police Chief Daniel Levi and Israeli police officers pay their respects as a convoy carrying the body of a slain hostage Ran Gvili arrives at the Abu Kabir Forensic Institute in Tel Aviv, January 26, 2026. (Photo: Yael Abas Guisky/Flash90) The body of Ran Gvili, the last Israeli hostage…

During the Holocaust, one American GI's quiet courage and unwavering faith led him to defy Nazi orders and save 200 Jewish-American soldiers from certain death. Discover the remarkable story of Master Sergeant Roddie Edmonds, a man whose... Today is International Holocaust Remembrance Day, a date chosen to align with the…

On receiving a press release about the Holocaust Memorial Day commemoration organized by Birmingham City Council (BCC), The Jewish Telegraph noticed that the words “Jews” and “Jewish” were completely absent. The BCC press release stated that the event, led by Lord Mayor of Birmingham, Zafar Iqbal,  “commemorates the victims and…

“I’ve been teaching for over 20 years, and I don’t think this would have been revealed in a survey two decades ago,” says Tom Noone. A history teacher at Naas CBS in Co Kildare, Noone was “shocked” by a survey which found almost one in 10 young adults (9 per…

OpenAI may have called GPT-5.2 its "most advanced frontier model for professional work," but tests conducted by the Guardian cast doubt on its credibility. According to the report, OpenAI's GPT-5.2 model cited Grokipedia, the online encyclopedia powered by xAI, when it came to specific, but controversial topics related to Iran…

Baroness Ruth Deech and her daughter Sarah, Eddie Caplan and his mother Amy, Jackie Young, Ivor Perl, Mala Tribich and Joanna Millan, after lighting candles during the Association of Jewish Refugees (AJR) Holocaust Memorial Day Service, at Belsize Square Synagogue in London, January 20, 2026. (Photo: PA Images via Reuters)…

Gideon Bayer with his son Urija (Photo courtesy of Friends of Israel Defense Forces) Gideon Bayer, a resident of the northern Israeli town of Ma’alot, walked the grounds of Auschwitz in Poland last month, remembering that his own parents had dedicated their lives to comforting Holocaust survivors in the wake…

Half of all the adults surveyed in Ireland did not know that six million Jewish people were killed in the Holocaust, while 1 in 12 young adults believed it never happened, according to a new survey commissioned by the Claims Conference.  In the survey, which polled a sample of 1,000…

Joe Engel was and remains an icon in Charleston, South Carolina. Born in Zakroczym, Poland, he survived Auschwitz and several other concentration camps and fought with the resistance before landing on American shores as a refugee in 1949. After retirement from his dry-cleaning business, Engel focused his later years on…

A menorah is pictured on Dec. 20, 2025, after the seventh candle is lit for the Jewish festival of Hanukkah as mourners stand next to floral tributes in memory of the victims of the mass killing at Bondi Beach in Sydney, Australia. Photo by DAVID GRAY /AFP via Getty Images…