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Nazi documents show discrimination against Jewish doctors

Newly discovered ledgers show Nazi practices aiming to siphon out Jewish doctors from Germany and change their titles to 'caregivers'; documents to be presented at Yad Vashem

Itamar Eichner | 12.01.24

Dutch government returns art stolen by Nazis to Jewish owners

After a long campaign by the Dutch Jewish community and the State of Israel, a Netherlands minister says restitution policy is 'not merely about justice; it is about humanity'

Itamar Eichner | 09.16.24

פצצת אטום שהוטלה על נגסאקי נגסקי ב יפן ב אוגוסט 1945 נשק גרעיני מלחמת העולם השנייה

Nagasaki mayor snubs Israel in WWII commemoration ceremony

Israeli ambassador says decision regrettable after Israel off the guest list for the annual ceremony for victims of Nagasaki nuclear bombing; Mayor Shiro Suzuki says wants to ensure the ceremony takes place in an 'atmosphere of peace.'

ynet correspondents | 08.01.24

אחד מבתי הקברות הצבאיים לחיילים צבאות בנות הברית

Honoring Jewish soldiers killed on D-Day

In a special ceremony, Rabbi Mordechai Lewin read the names of more than 200 Jewish soldiers who fell in the invasion and in the battles that followed

Itamar Eichner | 06.13.24

How Jewish WWII soldiers kept kosher in British military

Marvin Kersh landed on Normandy beach on D-Day and took part in the liberation of a concentration camp; But had to explain to his superiors why he refused to eat non-kosher meat, a position which almost saw him court-martialed

Itamar Eichner | 06.09.24

After mistakenly buried with Nazis, US Jewish GI to be interned in US

1st Lt. Nathan Baskind succumbed to his wounds in a German hospital days following the invasion of Normandy, buried with Nazi soldiers in mass grave

Daniel Edelson, New York | 05.31.24

Archaeologists discover trove of Jewish relics near historic Warsaw Ghetto

More than 5,000 items related to pre-war Jewish life found in 2 basements, transferred to Warsaw Ghetto Museum

Itamar Eichner | 05.26.24

Worked together in the lab, murdered together in Auschwitz

Élisabeth and Eugène Wollman made their way from Russia to the Pasteur Institute in Paris, where they worked together for many years on joint and groundbreaking research in microbiology, until the Nazis came

Davidson Institute of Science | 05.17.24

גופות יהודים במחנה בוכנוולד. ברקע חיילים אמריקנים ששחררו את המחנה

Michael Oren reveals images show liberation of Buchenwald concentration camp

The father of Israeli diplomat Michael Oren fought in the US Army against the Nazis in World War II, and his uncle participated in the liberation of the Buchenwald concentration camp; rare photos from the family archive reveal the horror of piles of Jewish bodies; 'My father showed me the pictures and said: That's why we need a strong Jewish state,' he recalls

Alexandra Lukash | 05.06.24

'The clothes they sewed saved the family'

Israeli fashion designer Galit Freiman Levi recounts the story of her grandmother Adela who was forced to sew dresses for Nazi officers' wives, saving her family in the process

Itay Yaakov | 05.06.24

Hungarian president apologizes for father's Nazi past

Tamás Sulyok in special event in Parliament honors the memory of thousands of Hungarian Jews murdered by the Nazis with Hungarian approval and apologizes for his country's actions during the Holocaust

Itamar Eichner | 04.19.24

Difficult to surpass the clearness and precision of his book. Felix Hausdorff in his office

The mathematician who defied concentration camps

Felix Hausdorff, one of the most prominent mathematicians of the 20th century, chose to end his own life rather than face internment in a concentration camp at the age of 73

Ettay Nevo/Davidson Institute of Science | 02.09.24

שרשרת עוגן של הצי האמריקאי שגרמה נזק לצוללת

Saving submarine 'Shira': Sunken Italian sub off in Haifa Bay designated as historic landmark

In 1942, the Royal British Navy sunk an Italian submarine off the coast of Haifa, killing everyone on board; fearing that the submarine remains will be damaged, authorities want to mark site as historic landmark to preserve the wreckage

Ilana Curiel | 02.08.24

The moment of the train's liberation, April 13, 1945

Never-before-seen footage of Nazi death train liberation unearthed 78 years later

Exclusive: Nearly eight decades after U.S. Army soldiers freed 2,500 Jews from Nazi clutches, newly-discovered footage in the U.S. National Archives reveals poignant scenes of liberation

Itamar Eichner | 07.31.23

Oppenheimer, the story of the father of the atomic bomb also tells his Jewish story

Barbie isn’t the only film opening on Friday – 'Oppenheimer,' which tells the story of the father of the atomic bomb, is a fascinating and even pulsating work about the collision between the political and the scientific, and a wonderful story about a victory that is a defeat

Shmulik Duvdevani, Shira Li Bartov and Andrew Lapin/JTA | 07.20.23