Holocaust

How the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance came to be

There are currently 35 member states that have accepted the IHRA definition of antisemitism and have generated educational projects about the Holocaust.

Israeli director tackles film about a class trip to Poland

Saban said that the toughest task for him was to put aside his perspective as an adult and recapture the feeling of what it was like to be in Poland and at the death camps at age 17. 

German grandson of Nazis comes to Israel during war to enlist in IDF

In January, Edgar came to Israel, where he began volunteering and assisting soldiers on various bases. During his visit, he decided that he wanted to enlist in the IDF.

A plea to bring home the hostages and heal a shattered community

We have no other country. We love you, our homeland – please come back to us. Tsachi and Omri, hold on, we are all waiting for you, all of us at Nahal Oz.

By MICHAL MAGEN
01/06/2024

European Union to co-sponsor new immersive Yad Vashem exhibit

The new project aims to resurrect Jewish communities destroyed during the Holocaust, bringing forward surviving testimonies in immersive detail with the use of new technologies. 

‘The Commandant’s Shadow’ tells the true story behind ‘The Zone of Interest’

The Jewish subjects of the documentary say they do not see the story as uniquely Jewish.

By JACKIE HAJDENBERG/JTA
29/05/2024

Google's $1M gift: Virtual Auschwitz tours now a reality

Wojciech Soczewica, director general of the Auschwitz-Birkenau Foundation, noted the project's responsibility to preserve the authenticity of the site while making educational content accessible.

A Danish-Israeli Holocaust survivor's remarkable life journey

Over the course of a remarkable career, Bachmann developed many innovative designs and slogans for a variety of clients and organizations.

Taking Jews’ agency away by denying them the right of self-defense is antisemitism

Enabling the continued hatred and murder of Jews, denying the victims the agency to stop it, and couching it in the terms of international law is antisemitism.

By ARIEL MUZICANT
25/05/2024

'Final Verdict': Charting post-WWII German criminal law

Buck explains how Germany has come to terms with its guilt and responsibility, and how the Holocaust has assumed a centrality in the national consciousness.

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