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The truth is not selective: Poland vs. Netflix

Poland’s government won an important victory on the battleground of history last week. It succeeded in persuading Netflix to amend a newly released World War II-based documentary that … more

By Ben Cohen | 11/27/19

Assessing some damage after Kristallnacht, “Night of Broken Glass,” in Germany, Nov. 9–10, 1938.

Kristallnacht still with us in 2019

Germany marked the 81st anniversary of Kristallnacht, “The Night of Broken Glass,” last weekend. The nationwide Nazi pogrom against that country’s Jewish community took place on Nov. 9-10, … more

By Jonathan S. Tobin | 11/14/19

Rabbi Yitshak Ehrenberg of the Central Orthodox Synagogue of Berlin observes Jewish Agency chairman Isaac Herzog light a memorial candle in memory of the 6 million Jews murdered during the Shoah, on Nov. 7.

Alarm sounded at Berlin Kristallnacht memorial

It’s been 81 years since Kristallnacht (“Night of Broken Glass”), when Nazis torched synagogues, vandalized thousands of Jewish homes, schools and businesses, and killed nearly 100 … more

By Eliana Rudee, JNS | 11/14/19

Alex Borstein, left, and Rachel Brosnahan in “Marvelous Mrs. Maisel.”

At Emmys, ‘Maisel’ star recalls Shoah survivor

Alex Borstein of “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel,” recalled her Holocaust survivor grandmother’s courage in defying the Nazis at the Emmy Awards. Borstein, who won … more

By JTA | 10/3/19

The Museum of Jewish Heritage: A Living Memorial to the Holocaust displays a shofar that was hidden and blown in the Auschwitz 75 years agao.

Jewish museum reveals hidden Auschwitz shofar

The Museum of Jewish Heritage: A Living Memorial to the Holocaust in Lower Manhattan revealed on Monday a shofar that was hidden and blown in the Auschwitz concentration camp 75 years ago and never … more

9/26/19

Israeli President Shimon Peres, right, and Latvia President Andris Berzinns, left, at the opening of the Zanis Lipke Memorial Museum in Riga, Latvia, in 2013.

Eastern European museums absent at key Shoah sites

In the capital of Lithuania, an institution formerly known as the Museum of Genocide Victims barely mentions the murder of nearly all the country’s Jews by Nazis and locals, focusing instead on … more

By Cnaan Liphshiz, JTA | 8/30/19

Young Jewish refugees at a camp near Windermere in Cumbria, 1946. The camp was known as the Calgarth Housing Estate and was run by the Central British Jewish Relief Fund for young people rescued from the Holocaust.

Jews helped inspire refugee program. Stephen Miller, a Jew, might end it.

In July 1939, eight months after Kristallnacht and seven weeks before Hitler would invade Poland, Congress killed a bill that would have allowed 20,000 Jewish refugee children into the United … more

By Ben Sales, JTA | 8/13/19

Irma Klein sold “Painting with Houses” by Wassily Kandinsky in 1940 after the Nazis occupied the Netherlands.

Tough luck, Dutch tell artless Jews

Following a legal fight, the family of Irma Klein last year finally got Dutch restitution officials to recognize that the Nazi occupation forced Klein to sell her Wassily Kandinsky … more

By Cnaan Liphshiz, JTA | 7/24/19

Nobuki Sugihara with Limmud FSU founder Chaim Chesler and villagers from Mir, Belarus, on May 2.

Son of a Holocaust hero sets the record straight

After decades of relative obscurity, the tale of the Japanese diplomat Chiune Sugihara has become one of the best-known Holocaust rescue stories, rivaling those of Oskar Schindler and Irena … more

By Cnaan Liphshiz, JTA | 5/22/19

Beate and Serge Klarsfeld pose before receiving an award from the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington.

Famed Nazi hunters say it feels like the 1930s

It’s not an unfamiliar frame for describing the rise of the new nationalism: There’s a bad wind blowing through the West, and nothing less than democracy is at … more

By Ron Kampeas, JTA | 5/15/19