Yad Vashem
Christie’s cancels auction of jewelry bought by billionaire with Nazi past
By Yonat Shimron — September 1, 2023
(RNS) — The auction house planned to sell jewelry from the collection of Heidi Horten, whose husband built a fortune at the expense of Jews during the Nazi years.
Amid rise in antisemitism, Yeshiva University focuses on Holocaust education
By Kathryn Post — March 24, 2023
(RNS) — The Holocaust 'is being inadvertently or consciously de-Judaized,' according to Yeshiva University's Shay Pilnik.
16 objects from Germany tell story of Holocaust in new ways
By Kirsten Grieshaber — January 24, 2023
BERLIN (AP) — The exhibition Sixteen Objects marks the 70th anniversary of the Yad Vashem memorial, bringing back to Germany an array of items Jews took with them when they fled the Nazis.
First stop, Yad Vashem. Why?
By Jeffrey Salkin — July 25, 2022
(RNS) — That is the first place in Israel that foreign dignitaries visit. We can do better.
A strike near Babyn Yar; but this time Jewish acceptance in Ukraine is growing
By Yonat Shimron — March 2, 2022
(RNS) — For many Jews, Ukraine brings up memories of pogroms, antisemitism and Nazi collaboration. But Jewish life in Ukraine is no longer what it was.
As survivors age, Holocaust educators rush to preserve their irreplaceable testimony
By Michele Chabin — January 24, 2019
JERUSALEM (RNS) — The race against time has prompted a program to take survivors back to their hometowns in Europe to film their recollections of the places where they experienced the catastrophe most acutely.
Polish Senate backs controversial Holocaust speech law
By Jerome Socolovsky — February 1, 2018
WARSAW, Poland (AP) — The bill has already sparked a diplomatic dispute with Israel and drawn calls from the United States for a reconsideration.
Ben Carson, it’s time to tour a Holocaust museum (COMMENTARY)
By Cathy Lynn Grossman — October 12, 2015
(RNS) If he did, Carson might drop that line about Hitler and gun control.
Saved from the German ‘death march,’ he returned to thank his Polish rescuer
By Michele Chabin — January 30, 2015
(RNS) On Jan. 18, 1945, during the final stages of the war, Shalom Lindenbaum and his father were among 1,500 surviving prisoners sent on a death march into the forest, starving and freezing.
COMMENTARY: An abyss of historical ignorance
By Jeffrey Weiss — January 31, 2014
(RNS) Cavalier Nazi comparisons disrespect the actual victims of the Nazis by suggesting that any perceived wrong is like the Holocaust. It's not.
COMMENTARY: Does refusal to wear a skullcap signal disrespect?
By Jeffrey Weiss — October 14, 2013
(RNS) Last week, the Greek prime minister got dinged for showing insufficient respect for Judaism. It’s possible his critics have it exactly backwards.
Why would Jews vandalize a Holocaust memorial?
By Lauren Markoe — June 29, 2012
(RNS) When Israel's most prominent Holocaust memorial was vandalized earlier this month with anti-Israel and anti-Semitic graffiti, many were shocked that those charged with the crime were observant Jews. But many Israelis were not surprised. By Lauren Markoe.
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