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Lina Mendoni: Meeting with representatives of the World Jewish Restitution Organization

She thanked them for their contribution to the return of 91 Jewish artifacts from Poland and briefed them on the construction of the Holocaust Museum in Thessaloniki The post Lina...

Yad Vashem to open Holocaust Education Centre in Munich

The Israeli Holocaust memorial institution Yad Vashem plans to open an education centre in Munich. The aim is to reinforce the culture of remembrance and to counteract anti-Semitis...

Railway site of WWII forced labor camp for Jews to be restored

A railway site in central Greece where dozens of Greek Jews died during the Nazi World War II occupation after being conscripted for hard labor will be restored and turned into a p...

Stories from a Thessaloniki basement

The Italian Cultural Institute has been sold to a supermarket chain, but beneath its floors, the city’s Italian-Jewish history survives.

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Holocaust archive in central London gets green light for major expansion

The historic Bloomsbury archive will be enlarged with new galleries, a learning space and a roof garden as part of a scheme to widen public access.Read more ›

Erste Außenstelle außerhalb Israels: Holocaustgedenkstätte Yad Vashem kommt nach München

Yad Vashem will eine Außenstelle in München einrichten mit einer Dependance in Leipzig. Das soll die jüdische Perspektive in der Erinnerungskultur stärken. mehr...

Berliner Ausstellung zum Holocaust: Woher das eigene Familiensilber wohl stammen mag

Die „Topographie des Terrors“ widmet sich der Frage, wie weit das Wissen um den Holocaust an den Juden in der deutschen Bevölkerung verbreitet war. mehr...

Holocaust Survivor Exhibit Available to Schools, Groups

YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio – A new educational Holocaust survivor exhibit was unveiled at the Jewish Community Relations Council’s Shoah Ceremony (Holocaust remembrance) in April. The exhibi...

VIDEO | A gathering to remember victims of the Holocaust, as well as heroes

"Never Again" - A ceremony was held in Wilmington Tuesday to honor the memory of the six-million victims of the Holocaust.

Heinz Kounio, one of Greece’s last Holocaust survivors, dies aged 98

One of Thessaloniki’s last Holocaust survivors, Heinz Kounio, has died aged 98, an association representing Greece’s Jewish communities said Friday.

The new museum mapping Thessaloniki’s buried past

Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis on Saturday inaugurated a new museum in Thessaloniki, dedicated to archaeological remains uncovered during the long excavations for the city’s me...

Baton Rouge Yom HaShoah event honors victims, urges Holocaust education

BATON ROUGE — Sunday afternoon, in Baton Rouge, the Jewish Federation of Greater Baton Rouge and Unified Jewish Congregation came together to host a Yom HaShoah program.Y...

Yom HaShoah: Gedenken vor dem Düsseldorfer Rathaus

"Jeder Mensch hat einen Namen". Unter diesem Motto erinnern heute (14. April) die Jüdische Gemeinde Düsseldorf und die Mahn- und die Gedenkstätte an die Opfer der Shoah.

Pro-Palestine camp to take place at site of Jewish WWII deportations

Moorweide in Hamburg is the site from which around 6,000 Jews, as well as Sinti and Roma, were deported during the Holocaust.

As Holocaust knowledge lags, Florida targets teens with new approaches

New exhibits, interactive programs and survivor testimony aim to fill gaps left by school curricula. -- The post As Holocaust knowledge lags, Florida targets teens with new approac...

From the Warsaw Ghetto to Israel: Irene Shashar’s testimony amid the global rise of antisemitism

Holocaust survivor recounts her childhood in the Warsaw Ghetto, her father’s murder, and her post‑war journey through Paris and Peru. The post From the Warsaw Ghetto to Israel: Ire...

Amid Surge in Antisemitism, Spanish Jewish Leader Builds Landmark Museum in Madrid

Hatchwell believes the most powerful response is not silence or retreat, but education. The post Amid Surge in Antisemitism, Spanish Jewish Leader Builds Landmark Museum in Madrid...

Opening of 'Anne Frank The Exhibition' in Chicago

On Friday, May 1, 2026, Anne Frank The Exhibition will open at the Griffin Museum of Science and Industry (Griffin MSI) in Chicago. The exhibition is groundbreaking in several re...

'Paper-made tombstones' for a Jewish community nearly wiped from memory

A historian from a Krakow university has discovered and recorded the names of nearly ten thousand Jews whose graves were destroyed by the Nazis to make way for Plaszow concentratio...

Mamdani Visits Kupferberg Holocaust Center

Mayor Zohran Mamdani visited the Kupferberg Holocaust Center at Queensborough Community College to commemorate Yom HaShoah, Holocaust Remembrance Day. “On Yom HaShoah I was humbled...

Yad Vashem chooses Germany for first overseas education centers

(JTA) — BERLIN – For the first time in its 73-year history, Yad Vashem, Israel’s Holocaust memorial museum and archive, is establishing educational centers outside the Jewish state...

The horrific past of the Museum of the Liberation of Rome

Italy marks Festa della Liberazione on 25 April. Rome's mayor Roberto Gualtieri will visit the Historic Museum of the Liberation of Rome on Saturday to mark Liberation Day, a nati...

At Holocaust remembrance, Council Speaker pushes for educating youth

Holocaust survivors and descendants gathered at Temple Emanu-El on the Upper East Side Sunday for the annual Gathering of Remembrance. The Museum of Jewish Heritage hosted the p...