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Germany cancels auction of Holocaust artifacts after backlash

November 17, 2025 8:40 am

A listing of information about the auction on the Auktionhaus Felzmann website on Sunday morning was no longer on the site by mid-afternoon.

Israel’s Holocaust Museum says names of 5 million of 6 million victims identified

November 03, 2025 9:54 pm

Some one million Jewish victims are still unknown, "and many will likely remain so forever," Yad Vashem said.

Holocaust Memorial Day: The conflict of hope and horror in Anne Frank’s optimism

January 29, 2025 3:45 pm

The Holocaust has inspired a rich body of literary writings, honoring its victims, and ensuring that the lessons learned from this atrocity are passed on to future generations.

Auschwitz: 80 years after liberation, Holocaust survivors share their stories

January 27, 2025 3:08 pm

Three survivors of the Holocaust, who endured unimaginable horrors during at Auschwitz recount their experiences and the impact it had on their lives.

International Day of Commemoration in Memory of the Victims of the Holocaust 2025

International Holocaust Remembrance Day 2025: Know the date, history, theme, significance, and more

January 27, 2025 12:11 pm

The International Day of Commemoration in Memory of the Victims of the Holocaust holds profound significance as it serves to honour the memory of over a million Jews and other victims who passed during one of the most devastating genocides in history.

Visitors tour an exhibition, ahead of Israel's national Holocaust memorial day at Yad Vashem, the World Holocaust Remembrance Center, in Jerusalem. (Reuters Photo)

Holocaust researchers use AI to search for unnamed victims

May 06, 2024 11:18 pm

Over the years, volunteers have tracked down information on 4.9 million individuals by reading through statements and documents, checking film footage, cemeteries and other records.

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The Netherlands is opening a Holocaust museum. The Israeli president's presence is causing concern

March 10, 2024 4:22 pm

In a statement issued ahead of Sunday's opening, the Jewish Cultural Quarter that runs the museum said it is “profoundly concerned by the war and the consequences this conflict has had, first and foremost for the citizens of Israel, Gaza and the West Bank.”

The horrors of the Holocaust and Auschwitz, trivialised by Amazon Prime’s Bawaal

July 30, 2023 12:41 pm

The Holocaust is one of the most traumatic episodes in modern history, which resulted in the death of around six million Jews living in Adolf Hitler’s Nazi regime.

As a stolen silver sleuth, German curator returns heirlooms Jewish families lost in the Holocaust

June 13, 2023 4:53 pm

Weniger, who is a curator at the Munich museum and oversees its restitution efforts, has made it his mission to return as many of the silver objects as possible to the descendants of the original owners.

A Jewish boy surrenders to Nazi troops in Warsaw. During the holocaust, Nazis murdered at least six million Jewish men, women and children, in addition to a number of other groups, including disabled people, gypsies, Slavs and people of colour.

Holocaust horror and its haunting lexicon

May 28, 2023 12:28 pm

During the Holocaust, Nazi Germany committed untold atrocities on people it considered to be a threat to "racial purity'', especially Jews, killing at least six million Jewish men, women and children in concentration and extermination camps.

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Holocaust survivors beauty pageant: Celebrating the undying spirit of mankind

November 25, 2015 4:45 pm

When Miss Holocaust Survivor Beauty Pageant was introduced in 2012, it evoked both kudos and criticism from Israelis. Three years later and 70 years after the aftermath, 13 survivors of the tragedy have come forward to take part in the contest in the northern Israeli city of Haifa.