Holocaust

As children, they fled to Russia to escape the Nazi killing machine that devastated their country, murdered six million Jews and left 27 million dead in the Soviet Union. Now, Russia’s invasion is seeing Ukrainian Holocaust survivors evacuating to Germany in a tragic twist of history that has uprooted them…

NEW YORK — Vandals sprayed a swastika on a Holocaust awareness billboard in New York City on Thursday, amid concerns of surging antisemitic crime in the region. Two swastikas were scrawled onto a bus stop in Brooklyn’s Borough Park neighborhood, home to a large concentration of Jewish residents. One of…

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Bennett thanked Putin for clarifying his attitude towards the Jewish people and the memory of the Holocaust. Published On 5 May 20225 May 2022 Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett says he has accepted an apology from Russian President Vladimir Putin for controversial remarks about the Holocaust made by Moscow’s top…

When our national sin no longer unites us, then there will be a time for choosing. Pro-abortion demonstrators gather in front of the Supreme Court of the United States on Tuesday, May 3, 2022 in Washington, D.C. (Kent Nishimura / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images) Like millions of other…

A death row inmate in Arizona has two weeks to decide whether to be executed with cyanide gas, the poison known as Zyklon B used by the Nazis to murder millions of people in Auschwitz and other extermination camps. On Tuesday the supreme court of Arizona issued an execution warrant…

Recent comments about Adolf Hitler’s “Jewish blood” by Russia’s top diplomat prove that Moscow is a threat to Jews everywhere and border on Holocaust denial, a senior advisor to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Tuesday. “It showed again that Russia poses an existential threat not only to Ukraine, with at…

Russia on Tuesday lectured Israel about the Holocaust, as the Kremlin sought to defend Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov after he had compared Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, who is Jewish, to Adolf Hitler. Lavrov, during an interview on Italian television Sunday night, said that Zelensky being Jewish "does not negate the…

Topline Billionaire financier David Rubenstein has pledged $15 million to the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum after being motivated to donate by the conflict in Ukraine amid rising antisemitism worldwide, he told the Washington Post. Kennedy Center board chairman David Rubenstein photographed at his Carlyle Group office on April 27, ...…

The Russian Foreign Ministry on Friday took a swipe at Israel’s ambassador to Ukraine for suggesting that some streets and public spaces in Kyiv be named after Ukrainians who saved Jews during the Holocaust. Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko, a retired heavyweight champion boxer, announced Monday that he will rename streets…