Concentration camp

Former PM Ehud Olmert calls Katz's humanitarian city plan a 'concentration camp'

Katz recently said that the Defense Ministry would build a new 'humanitarian city' in the Rafah area for at least 600,000 Palestinians.

 Former Israeli prime minister Ehud Olmert testifies during a hearing of the civil investigative committee on the October 7 massacre, in Tel Aviv, August 8, 2024.
 Displaced Palestinians fill water at a tent camp, in Gaza City, May 20, 2025.

Gaza plan likened to Nazi camps, sparks condemnation and political storm

 THE WORDS ‘arbeit macht frei’ hang above the gate at Auschwitz.

Lost music from Auschwitz performed after 80 years

TEACHER AND Zionist youth movement leader Fredy Hirsch, who ran the children’s block in Auschwitz-Birkenau

German Jewish educator who saved children from Holocaust to be subject of animated documentary


Former Gaza hostages commemorate Holocaust Remembrance Day at March of the Living

"I find myself endlessly reflecting on how such a tragedy could have happened, and how we, as a society, must never allow it to happen again," said former hostage Moran Stella Yanai.

NOTES ARE seen placed on the train tracks leading to the Auschwitz- Birkenau camp site in Poland as Israel marks the annual Holocaust  Remembrance Day.

80 years after Auschwitz, kosher food will be sold in its town of Oświęcim

The kosher concession will open in time for Yom HaShoah, beginning on the night of April 23.

Auschwitz-Birkenau

Confronting the complex realities of Polish-Jewish identity - opinion

Nuance is in order regarding Poland and its Jews; Jennifer Stark-Blumenthal calls for a reevaluation of Jews’ attitudes toward Poles, as well as Poles’ understanding of Jews. 

 OSWIECIM, POLAND - APRIL 16, 2015: International Holocaust Remembrance Day.

Israeli student arrested for Nazi salute at Auschwitz during school trip

An Israeli student was arrested and fined for performing a Nazi salute at Auschwitz during a school trip.

 THE FRONT GATE of Auschwitz carries the infamous phrase: ‘Arbeit macht frei.’ The writer states: ‘Perhaps we as Jews are less alone in our grief than we may fear.’

World's oldest Holocaust survivor, Rose Girone, passed away at age 113

Polish-born Rose managed to get visas for her and her husband to escape Germany to Shanghai in 1939, later settling in Queens, New York.

 Rose Girone

Grapevine February 16, 2025: The importance of aiding others

Movers and shakers in Israeli society.

 RAN GURON, seventh from left, with scholarship recipients.

JD Vance to visit Dachau on Thursday, the latest VP to tour the Nazi camp

Vance will visit Dachau before heading to the nearby Munich Security Conference, an elite national security gathering.

Republican vice presidential nominee J.D. Vance on the day of the debate between Republican presidential nominee and former US President Donald Trump and Democratic presidential nominee and US Vice President Kamala Harris, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. September 10, 2024. REUTER

Russian security bureau declassifies documents on Auschwitz liberation and Nazi crimes

The documents published by the FSB include testimonies, photos, a certificate commemorating a badge earned in the Polish army, as well as a certificate of release from Auschwitz.

The site of the former Nazi German concentration and extermination camp Auschwitz II-Birkenau

Louisville Orchestra remembers its concertmaster with an opera he performed in a concentration camp

Though Kling played in rehearsals for “Der Kaiser von Atlantis,” the opera was never performed in Theresienstadt.

 Teddy Abrams, music director of the Louisville Orchestra, was integral to the decision to stage "Der Kaiser von Atlantis" to mark International Holocaust Remembrance Day.

New project asks Holocaust survivors: What memory do you want the world to remember?

"Given your experience as an Auschwitz survivor, what is one specific thing you want people to remember for generations to come?" the social media campaign asks.

Holocaust survivor Ella Blumenthal, 103 years old of South Africa

Highlights of the Haifa International Film Festival

One advantage for English speakers of seeing a movie at a film festival is that they show films with English titles, unlike the theater chains, which only offer subtitles occasionally.

 ‘THE SEED of the Sacred Fig’