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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.

By BEN SALES/JTA
12/02/2025
The site of the former Nazi German concentration and extermination camp Auschwitz II-Birkenau

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.

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.

By SHIRA LI BARTOV/JTA
24/01/2025

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.

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.

Gene Simmons: I never touched drugs because of my mother’s suffering in the Holocaust

Speaking to The Jerusalem Post during a visit to Israel in 2011, Simmons referred to his mother’s Holocaust experience.

15/12/2024

Forging bonds of faith: A Rabbi's journey with evangelical Christians in Poland

On an interfaith mission to Poland, a rabbi finds new friendships with evangelical leaders as they confront Holocaust history and explore Jewish life together.

By JOSHUA STANTON
21/08/2024

Germany court upholds conviction of 99-year-old former Nazi concentration camp secretary

German Jewish leaders applauded the decision announced Tuesday by the Federal Court of Justice in Karlsruhe in Germany.

By TOBY AXELROD/JTA
21/08/2024

Court upholds 99-year-old Nazi camp worker's murder conviction

Irmgard Furchner was handed a two-year suspended sentence for aiding and abetting the murder of 10,505 people during her time as an 18- and 19-year-old secretary at Stutthof concentration camp.

By REUTERS
20/08/2024
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