HOLOCAUST

Two questions on a recent New York Regents standardized exam have upset Jewish leaders due to how they gave "false choices" to questions about Israeli history.

The U_N_ chief has warned on the day to remember victims of the Holocaust that “many parts of the internet are becoming toxic waste dumps for hate and vicious lies.”

Germany has commemorated the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp by focusing on people who were incarcerated and killed during the Nazi era because of their sexual orientations and gender identifies.

World leaders vowed to remember and guard against the atrocities of the Holocaust ever happening again, but recent reports point to a significant resurgence of antisemitism.

Zelenskyy's message on Holocaust Memorial Day stood in stark contrast to that of Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Just before Nazi Germany invaded Hungary in March 1944, Jewish youth leaders in the eastern European country jumped into action: They formed an underground network that would save tens of thousands of fellow Jews from the gas chambers

Just before Nazi Germany invaded Hungary in March 1944, Jewish youth leaders in the eastern European country jumped into action: They formed an underground network that in the coming months would save tens of thousands of fellow Jews from the gas chambers. This chapter of the Holocaust heroism is scarcely remembered in Israel.

U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres says the Nazis tried to rob millions of Jews of their names before killing them during World War II

Peaches Stergo of Florida faces up to 20 years in prison if she is convicted of draining the life savings of an 87-year-old man in a romance scam.

While the Florida woman was able to buy herself a new home, cars and luxury goods, the 87-year-old Holocaust survivor from Manhattan lost his life savings, prosecutors say.

The survey commissioned by a U.S.-based group found that the number of Dutch respondents who believe the Holocaust is a myth was higher than in any of the other five nations previously surveyed.

A Jewish group that commissioned a survey on Holocaust awareness in the Netherlands says the results show “a disturbing lack of awareness of key historical facts about the Holocaust.”

A Jewish group that commissioned a survey on Holocaust awareness in the Netherlands says the results show “a disturbing lack of awareness of key historical facts about the Holocaust.”.

A Holocaust survivor who knows he won’t be around forever is making it his mission so that future generations hear about history from survivors like him, long after he is gone.

An exhibition marking the 70th anniversary of Israel’s Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial brings back to Germany a diverse set of everyday objects that Jews took with them when they fled the Nazis

An exhibition marking the 70th anniversary of Israel’s Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial brings back to Germany a diverse set of everyday objects that Jews took with them when they fled the Nazis.

Lore Mayerfeld was 4 years old when she escaped from the Nazis in 1941. Together with her mother, the little Jewish girl ran away from her German hometown of Kassel with nothing but the clothes she wore and her beloved doll, Inge. Mayerfeld found a safe haven in the United States and later immigrated to Israel.

Rio de Janeiro has opened the doors to a Holocaust Memorial that honors not only Jewish victims, but also lesser-known groups likewise persecuted by the Nazi regime, including artists, anarchists, masons, Roma people, Jehovah’s Witnesses, gay people and the disabled

Rio de Janeiro has opened the doors to a Holocaust Memorial that honors not only Jewish victims, but also lesser-known groups likewise persecuted by the Nazi regime, including artists, anarchists, masons, Roma people, Jehovah’s Witnesses, gay people and the disabled.

Once again, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has caused widespread outrage by comparing his nation’s international isolation — the result of last year’s unprovoked invasion of neighboring Ukraine — to the murder of European Jews during the Holocaust.

Britain’s governing Conservative Party has suspended a lawmaker who spread misinformation about COVID-19 vaccines.

The United Arab Emirates will begin teaching about the Holocaust in history classes in primary and secondary schools across the country

President Biden was slammed for comments that compared illegal immigrants seeking asylum at the U.S. southern border to Jews fleeing Nazi Germany during the Holocaust.

“The whole persona that he created, the ability to deceive us, is so troubling," one voter told CNN.

Whoopi Goldberg apologized again for claiming the Holocaust was “not about race" after she repeated the remarks that resulted in her suspension from "The View" earlier this year.

"Whoopi Goldberg continues to use the Holocaust as her punching bag," one survivor of the mass genocide said of "The View" co-host's latest remarks.

Jewish activists and community members are calling for Whoopi Goldberg's termination after she again said the Nazi genocide of Jews was not about race.

"The View" co-host Whoopi Goldberg started the year with a two-week suspension after claiming that the Holocaust wasn't about race in January 2022.

In a new interview with a British newspaper, Whoopi Goldberg doubled down on her controversial take that the Holocaust "wasn't originally" about race.

"For people who unfortunately have to be alone for the holiday, just having some sense of holiday and knowing people are thinking about you I think is especially meaningful," Met Council CEO David Greenfield told CBS News.

Several Holocaust survivors are marking the third day of Hanukkah together with a virtual ceremony

Speaking at a conference of Orthodox Jews on Friday, Donald Trump did not address a widely criticized private meal he shared last month with a Holocaust-denying white nationalist and a rapper who has spewed antisemitic conspiracies. Over and over, Trump heaped praise on the Jewish people and highlighted his support for Israel as he addressed the annual President’s Conference of Torah Umesorah at his National Doral club in Miami. Trump is struggling for political momentum a month after becoming the first official candidate to enter the 2024 presidential contest.

President Biden is set to establish an inter-agency group to increase and coordinate U.S. government efforts to counter “antisemitism, Islamaphobia and other related forms of bias and discrimination.”

Across the United States, many Jewish Americans are closely following the recent high-profile surge in antisemitic rhetoric and actions.

Fans who have turned against Ye for his antisemitic remarks began flooding the r/Kanye page with Holocaust-education posts.

By JNS ReporterYe, formerly known as Kanye West, holds his smartphone reading off names of executives of the media. He and Trump clashed over his ambitious run for President of the United States during a short dinner at Mar-A-Lago. MEGA/JNSPolitical commentator Ben Shapiro on Sunday tacitly condemned U.S. President Donald Trump for hosting a dinner last week attended by Ye and Holocaust denier and white supremacist Nick Fuentes, sparking a Twitter war-of-words with the artist formerly known as Kanye West. He was referring to Trump’s claim that he had not known anything about Fuentes, whom Ye had invited to Mar-a-Lago. Trump’s 2024 presidential campaign released a statement, published by Breitbart, saying, “Kanye West very much wanted to visit Mar-a-Lago.

The New York-based Center for Jewish History is launching a project offering DNA testing kits for free to Holocaust survivors and their children.

The New York-based Center for Jewish History is launching a project offering DNA testing kits for free to Holocaust survivors and their children.

Speaking to reporters outside the White House on Tuesday, House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy criticized a dinner meeting over the weekend between former President Donald Trump, Kanye West, now known as Ye, and Nick Fuentes, a white supremacist and Holocaust denier.

The Utah senator responded to the former president's meeting with Kanye West and white supremacist Nick Fuentes.

Sheetal Deo was shocked when she got a letter from her Queens apartment building’s co-op board calling her Diwali decoration “offensive” and demanding she take it down. “My decoration said ‘Happy Diwali’ and had a swastika on it,” said Deo, a physician, who was celebrating the Hindu festival of lights. The equilateral cross with its legs bent at right angles is a millennia-old sacred symbol in Hinduism, Buddhism and Jainism that represents peace and good fortune.

Novelists, poets, historians and actors on the best things they read in 2022 that weren’t published this year.

“One of the worst slaughters during the Holocaust. Some 90% to 95% of the Jewish population of Lithuania was murdered brutally, cruelly, sadistically,” YIVO’s Jonathan Brent tells Jon Wertheim.

A French Holocaust denier who was convicted under France’s anti-Nazi laws has been arrested in Scotland after authorities searched for him for two years

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Israel’s Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial has acknowledged that a series of photos from Nazi Germany’s 1938 pogroms against Jews have been seen and published before, revising a claim it made when releasing the photos last week

Israel’s Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial has acknowledged that a series of photos from Nazi Germany’s 1938 pogroms against Jews have been seen and published before, revising a claim it made when releasing the photos last week.

Israel’s Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial acknowledged Sunday that a series of photos from Nazi Germany’s 1938 pogroms against Jews have been seen and published before, revising a claim it made when releasing the photos last week. The photos, which were recently donated by a former U.S. serviceman’s family to Yad Vashem in Jerusalem, show rare close-up images of Nazi officials carrying out looting and destruction of Jewish property in Nuremberg and a nearby town. Yad Vashem said the photos were “never-before-seen," but many in the collection had in fact been published on Twitter, in a research publication, and a recent PBS documentary.

KFC Germany quickly blamed an "unplanned, insensitive and unacceptable" push notification on a faulty, semi-automated content program.

Restaurant chain criticized after linking promotion to antisemitic attacks many view as the start of the Holocaust.

The photo album, now donated to Yad Vashem, offers rare visual evidence of the direct complicity of uniformed Nazi officers in the antisemitic pogroms.

Harrowing, previously unseen images from 1938′s Kristallnacht pogrom against German and Austrian Jews have surfaced in a photograph collection recently donated to Israel’s Yad Vashem memorial

Harrowing, previously unseen images from 1938′s Kristallnacht pogrom against German and Austrian Jews have surfaced in a photograph collection recently donated to Israel’s Yad Vashem memorial.

Harrowing, previously unseen images from 1938's Kristallnacht pogrom against German and Austrian Jews have surfaced in a photograph collection donated to Israel's Yad Vashem memorial, the organization said Wednesday. One shows a crowd of smiling, well-dressed middle-aged German men and women standing casually as a Nazi officer smashes a storefront window. Another image shows a Nazi officer splashing gasoline on the pews of a synagogue before it’s set alight.

Holocaust survivors from around the world are warning of the reemergence of antisemitism as they mark the 84th anniversary of Kristallnacht — the “Night of Broken Glass.”

Holocaust survivors from around the world are warning of the reemergence of antisemitism as they mark the 84th anniversary of Kristallnacht — the “Night of Broken Glass.”.

In “Come to This Court and Cry,” Linda Kinstler examines how stories of the Holocaust are passed down and altered.

E-commerce giant shouldn't promote "hate-filled propaganda and misinformation," group says.

Doug Mastriano, the Republican nominee for Pennsylvania governor, appears in a little-noticed film that some scholars say distorts the Holocaust to promote a conservative agenda.

Hannah Pick-Goslar, one of Anne Frank's best friends, died at the age of 93. The Anne Frank Foundation paid tribute to her for helping to keep Frank's memory alive.

During COVID Miami Palmetto High School senior Audrey March created a program called Letters to the Stars, a letter writing campaign to Holocaust survivors. Holocaust survivors are quite old and unfortunately some have passed. These stories give you a different outlook on life.”The letter writing program can continue even after graduation. Last year we worked to combine them into the program.”Outside of school she works with the Pinecrest City Music Program as Equity and Inclusion Director. Linda Rodriguez BernfeldTo see more #Miaminews from #Aventura to #Coralgables to #SouthMiami, #Pinecrest, #Palmetto Bay and #Cutler Bay and all throughout #Miamidadecounty go to:www.communitynewspapers.com

The Iranian president’s comment that “there are some signs” that the Holocaust happened but that the issue required more research has sparked an outcry from Israel, a country home to tens of thousands of Holocaust survivors.

Museums in New York that exhibit artworks looted by Nazis during the Holocaust are now required to let the public know about that dark history through signs or placards put on display with the stolen objects.

“Maus” cartoonist Art Spiegelman will receive an honorary National Book Award this fall, a medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters.

Israeli President Isaac Herzog has addressed Germany’s parliament about atrocities committed during the Third Reich.

Germany’s chancellor says that he was “disgusted by the outrageous remarks” made by Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in Berlin, accusing Israel of committing “50 Holocausts” against Palestinians over the years.

French President Emmanuel Macron has decried his Nazi-collaborator predecessors and vigorously vowed to stamp out Holocaust denial.

Special investigators in Poland say they have found mass graves containing the ashes of at least 8,000 Poles slain by Nazi Germans during World War II in forest executions.

A Polish official says his government wants formal rules to regulate the terms under which Israeli schoolchildren pay Holocaust study visits to the country, including on the presence of armed Israeli guards.

Broward County Public Schools announced there was yet another finding of anti-semitic graffiti on Tuesday and warned there are ongoing investigations to find the culprits.

Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett says he accepted an apology from Russian President Vladimir Putin for controversial remarks about the Holocaust made by Moscow’s top diplomat.

Israel has summoned the Russian ambassador over comments made by the Russian foreign minister about Nazism and antisemitism.

Dozens of Holocaust survivors and their children were in attendance to speak about the genocide on what was called Student Awareness Day.

Israel has come to a halt to honor the 6 million Jews killed in the Holocaust.

Holocaust survivors across the world are uniting to deliver a message on the dangers of unchecked hate and the importance of remembrance at a time of rising global antisemitism.

Fifth graders at Tropical Elementary School created art to honor children of the Holocaust.

Gerda Weissmann Klein, a Holocaust survivor and author who wrote about her ordeal and went on to receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom, will be remembered at a memorial May 1 after her death this month.

A man is arrested after he is accused of using his own blood to deface a Holocaust memorial in Miami Beach.

Mimi Reinhard, a secretary in Oskar Schindler’s office who typed up the list of Jews he saved from extermination by Nazi Germany, has died in Israel at the age of 107.

Poland has summoned the French ambassador over recent comments by President Emmanuel Macron who called Poland’s prime minister a “far-right anti-Semite” in a budding feud over Russia’s war on Ukraine.

As the war in Ukraine sees increased Russian attacks on cities and towns, Jewish organizations are trying to evacuate as many of the 10,000 Holocaust survivors living there as possible.

Ukraine’s president has called on Israel to take a stronger stand against Russia, delivering an emotional appeal that compared Russia’s invasion of his country to the actions of Nazi Germany.

Several grassroots groups and volunteers as far away as Los Angeles are working to extricate elderly Holocaust survivors from Ukraine.

Vladimir Putin has again painted his enemies in Ukraine as “neo-Nazis,” even though the country has a Jewish president who lost relatives in the Holocaust and who heads a Western-backed, democratically elected government.

Leon Schwarzbaum, a survivor of the Nazis’ death camp at Auschwitz and lifelong fighter for justice for the victims of the Holocaust, has died.

An 86-year-old Holocaust survivor recently worked on an innovative project that will allow students to ask her questions about her experience in the future.

An organization that handles claims on behalf of Jews who suffered under the Nazis says Germany has agreed to extend another $720 million (647 million euros) to provide supportive services for vulnerable Holocaust survivors.

Vladimir Putin told the world in the lead-up to its attacks on Ukraine that his operation aimed to “denazify” Ukraine.

Whoopi Goldberg returned to “The View” on Monday following her two-week suspension for remarks about the Holocaust.

Latvia’s parliament has passed a Holocaust restitution bill that includes funding to revitalize the Baltic nation’s Jewish community, which was almost completely wiped out during World War II.

Maksim Goldenshteyn's book, “So They Remember,” tells the story of his Holocaust survivor grandparents who languished in Jewish death camps and ghettos in Transnistria during World War II.

The uproar over Whoopi Goldberg's remarks about the Holocaust has catalyzed somber reflections by many American Jews, and not just about the Holocaust’s legacy.

ABC’s decision to suspend Whoopi Goldberg from “The View” for two weeks for her remarks about the Holocaust has opened the network up to criticism that its response derailed a teachable moment for the nation.

Whoopi Goldberg’s colleagues on the ”The View'' had virtually nothing to say Wednesday about her two-week suspension for her comments on Jews and the Holocaust.

Whoopi Goldberg has been suspended for two weeks as co-host of “The View” because of what the head of ABC News called her “wrong and hurtful comments” about Jews and the Holocaust.

Just days after the banning of “Maus” by a Tennessee school district made national news, two editions of Art Spiegelman’s Pulitzer Prize winning graphic story about the Holocaust have reached the top 20 on Amazon.

A Tennessee school district has voted to ban a Pulitzer Prize-winning graphic novel about the Holocaust due to “inappropriate language” and an illustration of a nude woman.

Holocaust survivors have recalled their agony to a world that they fear is forgetting on International Holocaust Remembrance Day.

Several dozen impoverished elderly Israelis, among them Holocaust survivors, received food donations from a charity ahead of International Holocaust Remembrance Day.

European Union leaders are pledging on the eve of the annual commemorations of Auschwitz’s liberation to keep fighting the antisemitism and Holocaust denial that has gained traction across Europe during the pandemic.