Nazi

Irmgard Furchner, former Nazi camp secretary known as 'Secretary of Evil', dies at 99

Furchner was convicted in 2022 of aiding and abetting the murder of over 10,500 prisoners at Stutthof concentration camp.

Irmgard Furchner, convicted in 2022 of complicity in Nazi crimes, dies at 99

Furchner had tried to avoid appearing in court by fleeing her senior home in Itzenhoe, a town in northern Germany, by taxi, the previous year. She was found in a local commuter train station.

By JTA STAFF
08/04/2025

'Lost City': A look at the trains of Amsterdam that sent off Jews during the Holocaust

Lost City tells the story of the trams that were used to transport Jews to Amsterdam train stations, from where they were shipped to death camps.

29/03/2025
Adolf Eichmann on trial in Jerusalem

Argentina's president to declassify Nazi files, expose how war criminals fled to Argentina

The newly released archives could provide deeper insight into the extent of local support that enabled arrival of the fleeing Nazis.

  Vincent Reynouard poses during his appearance before the Saverne Criminal Court on September 27, 2

French Holocaust denier sentenced to prison for hate speech and war crime denial

Paris Criminal Court sentenced Vincent Reynouard to 12 months in prison for denying war crimes, inciting racial hatred, and spreading neo-Nazi propaganda.

23/03/2025

Max Frankel, Holocaust survivor and Pulitzer Prize winner, dies at 94

Frankel’s impact on the news industry will be remembered through generations.

Mass grave of Nazi victims found at Hartheim Castle in Austria

From May 1940 to November 1944, about 30,000 people, including disabled individuals, mental patients, prisoners, and laborers, were killed in gas chambers at Hartheim Castle and burned.

Jewish community

Jewish cemetery in Slovakia vandalized with swastikas

“This kind of hate-driven vandalism should never happen,” said Juraj Levický, a Jewish community member and a caretaker of the Humenné cemetery.

Israel’s foreign policy has lost its moral compass

Supporting far-right parties and Vladimir Putin’s war in Ukraine is the diplomatic equivalent of an illegal order with a black flag flying above it.

17/03/2025
German chancellor Adolf Hitler looks out at a rally staged by the Nazi Party

'We want Hitler': Johannesburg politician threatens to wear Hitler shirt

Johannesburg councilor sparks outrage by invoking Hitler in anti-Israel tirade, drawing condemnation from Jewish leaders and political figures.

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