Holocaust

The remains of the IDF’s first fallen paratrooper, Pvt. Martin Davidowicz, were repatriated to Israel from the Czech Republic for burial on Wednesday, and he was laid to rest on Thursday. The coffin was flown in an IAF transport plane and was escorted by a joint delegation of the Defense…

WESTLAKE, Texas (AP) — Anna Salton Eisen found the old pictures — wallet-size, black-and-white images of Jewish prisoners who survived the Holocaust — in a folder her late father, George Lucius Salton, kept most of his life. The Texas woman recognized the names of some of the teens and young…

A German woman has been convicted of crimes against humanity in Germany for her role in the “enslavement resulting in the death of another” during her time with ISIS. The Higher Regional Court in Munich found her guilty. It is one of the only examples of an ISIS criminal being…

JTA — Sweden’s National Agency for Education recommended that teachers should make students try to prove that the Holocaust never happened, as part of a push to help them understand conspiracy theories. The recommendation came in a recently published handbook for high school teachers that the government’s institution in charge…

Joey Barton will escaped formal sanctions after sparking outrage by comparing a poor performance by his Bristol Rovers side to the Holocaust. Fabian Breckels, a Bristol councillor and associate member of the Jewish Labour Movement, said the former England player's comments were "appalling". However, Barton declined to apologise after telling…

The prayers and requests of dozens of Holocaust survivors were placed in the cracks between the wall's stones in a special ceremony. Published: OCTOBER 24, 2021 13:19 Dozens of notes written by Holocaust survivors living in the US were places in the Kotel last week as part of a special…

In this excerpt from Rebecca Frankel’s INTO THE FOREST: A Holocaust Story of Survival, Triumph, and Love, Miriam Rabinowitz, in an overwhelming display of courage, surrounded by Nazis with their guns drawn, saves the life of a young boy named Philip Lazowski. In the early hours of April 30, 1942,…

LONDON — On February 9, 1943, Transport 46 left the Drancy concentration camp on the outskirts of Paris bound for Auschwitz. Among the 1,000 deportees being carried to their deaths was 73-year-old Aaron Ianco. Seven decades later, Ianco’s great-grandson, British photographer Marc Wilson, began a project that would see him…

David Sompolinsky, a prominent microbiologist who helped rescue hundreds of Jews in Denmark during the Holocaust, died last week at age 100 in the Israeli city of Bnei Brak, where he lived. Sompolinsky, a native of Copenhagen, died on October 13 and was buried in Rishon Lezion. When World War…

At a tense school board meeting Monday night in Southlake, Texas, a former student gave painful testimony about antisemitic bullying that he said he endured in the Carroll Independent School District.  Teachers grew emotional as they described feeling unsupported and under attack.   And many parents defended a district administrator who…