Holocaust

'Attempt to reshape historical narrative': IDF delegation at Auschwitz told to lower Israeli flags

A visiting IDF delegation was stopped at entrance to Aushwitz-Birkenau and forced to remove Israeli flags mid-ceremony by local law enforcement.

A WOMAN holds an Israeli flag and another person covers her from the rain during the March of the Living at Auschwitz-Birkenau in April. Born into the post-Auschwitz covenant, we considered Jew-hatred passé, doomed, like racism; alas, today, it’s surging, the writer laments.
ROMANIAN PRESIDENT Nicusor Dan is challenging a recently passed parliamentary law designed to enhance the effectiveness and accessibility of efforts to combat antisemitism, the writers point out.

Holocaust distortion and preserving the accurate narrative in Eastern Europe - opinion

Jewish Serbian writer David Albahari.

Life and legacy of Jewish-Serbian author David Albahari - opinion

A WOMAN holds an Israeli flag and another person covers her from the rain during the March of the Living at Auschwitz-Birkenau in April. Born into the post-Auschwitz covenant, we considered Jew-hatred passé, doomed, like racism; alas, today, it’s surging, the writer laments.

Antisemitism: Humanity’s totalitarian swamp - Opinion


Yad Vashem: Israel's war in Gaza is not genocide, but we must act morally - exclusive

To equate the IDF, fighting to protect Israeli citizens from a terrorist army that embeds itself within civilian areas, with the Nazis, is not only false, but morally reprehensible.

Palestinian journalists report on the war and ongoing humanitarian crisis in the central Gaza Strip, July 26, 2025

Why did Bard College’s orchestra performed Mendelssohn at site of Hitler’s Nuremberg rallies?

At the hour of Germany’s surrender in 1945, they performed a program by Felix Mendelssohn — whose music was banned under the Nazis because of his Jewish heritage.

Leon Botstein, Bard College president and director of its orchestra, leads a concert in Nuremberg, Germany, May 8, 2025.

Dr. Yoav Heller on October 7: sexual violence and confronting evil

Dr. Heller: 'This wasn’t just another attack between Israelis and Palestinians. It was an attempt at genocide.'

 IDF soldiers seen in the aftermath of Hamas's Nova music festival massacre in Re'im, southern Israel, on October 7, 2023.

After long hiatus, there is finally a Polish ambassador in Israel

In August 2021, Israel recalled its ambassador to Poland after Warsaw passed a law limiting claims on Holocaust-era property, most of which belonged to Jews.

Maciej Hunia met with President Isaac Herzog.

What we can learn from Holocaust survivors to heal PTSD from October 7 - opinion

Even when told not to compare with the second-generation Holocaust survivors, we can learn from what they lived and how we can use it to help October 7 survivors.

 Two women cry and grap the picture of their loved one at the site of the Supernova music festival.

Pro-Palestinian protest features skeletons wearing concentration camp uniforms - report

The image showed the skeletons hanging execution-style, with blue-and-white striped uniforms with Stars of David and prisoner numbers on them. 

 AN installation at a pro-Palestinian protest in Sweden on July 19, 2025.

This week in Jewish history: Miracle aids and antibiotics

A highly abridged weekly version of Dust & Stars – Today in Jewish History.

 THANK YOU, Selman Waksman, for isolating streptomycin.

How Dov Forman used social media to tell of his great-grandmother's survival - interview

Dov Forman's TikTok project landed him on TIME magazine's list of 100 Most Influential Creators last week, something he called an "incredible honour."

 How Dov Forman used social media to tell of his great-grandmother's survival

Israel's decisive Syria strikes highlight need for intervention in preventing genocides - analysis

For many Jews, the images of Druze men having their mustaches forcibly shaved conjure up memories of the Holocaust.

 Members of Syrian security forces ride on a back of a truck after Syrian troops entered the predominantly Druze city of Sweida on Tuesday following two days of clashes, in Sweida, Syria July 15, 2025.

Grapevine, July 12, 2025: Muslim empathy

Movers and shakers in Israeli society.

IMAM HASSEN Chalghoumi (right), Chairman of the Conference of Imams of France, with Dahri Nour Mouhammad, Executive Director of Islamic Theology of Counter Terrorism.

'The Sunflower House': A Nazi past discovered under the floor - review

The Sunflower House is a well-written story of love amid the harsh reality of the difficult conditions faced by the protagonists.

 A NAMING ceremony conducted by SS members at a Lebensborn home in Rheinhessen, Germany, c. 1936-1944.