Nazi Germany

Undated handout photo issued by the Church of Scotland of a piper during the unveiling of the Jane Haining memorials outside St Columba's Church of Scotland in Budapest. Photo: Barta Bálint/Church of Scotland/PA Wire

Scot who refused to abandon schoolgirls to the Nazis honoured with new plaques

A Credit Suisse building is seen in Geneva, Switzerland, April 4, 2023. (Lian Yi/Xinhua via Getty Images)

April 20, 2023, 9:12 am

Credit Suisse is impeding probe into Nazi bank accounts, US lawmakers say

In 1999, the Swiss bank paid Jewish groups and Holocaust survivors a settlement of £1 billion in restitution for withholding money from Jews who had tried to withdraw their funds.

By Gabe Friedman (JTA)

A few hundred politicians, Jewish leaders and others marked the 80th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising at the Ghetto Heroes Monument in Warsaw, April 19, 2023. (Artur Widak/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

April 20, 2023, 8:55 am

Warsaw Ghetto Uprising’s 80th anniversary marked with daffodils, 3 presidents and an 11th commandment against ‘indifference’

Roughly 13,000 Jews were were burnt alive or suffocated as the Nazis burnt down the ghetto to quell the rebellion, sending the remaining some 50,000 Jews to be murdered further east.

By Dinah Spritzer (JTA)

March 9, 2023, 3:18 pm

Braverman: Lineker’s tweet ‘diminishes unspeakable tragedy of Holocaust’

Home Secretary suggests presenter’s ‘Germany in 30s’ attack on her migration policies was ‘flippant’ and ‘lazy’

By Lee Harpin

Holocaust refugees Howard and Lotte Marcus, a couple from Long Island, who donated $500 million in 2016 to Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU). Credit: Ben-Gurion University

January 26, 2023, 1:16 pm

Who Are the Marcuses? Meet the couple who made largest-ever donation to Israel

The documentary on Holocaust refugees Howard and Lotte Marcus, who gave £403million to Israel, will screen at an international film festival next month.

By Jotam Confino in Israel

January 24, 2023, 12:41 pm

‘Jews Out’: Nazi board game for kids to be exhibited on Holocaust Remembrance Day

Created in Nazi Germany in 1938, the game tasked players with collecting hats from Jews and bringing them to roundup spots. One caption reads: 'Go to Palestine'

By Jotam Confino in Israel

Peter Bradley with his British and German passports, speaking at a school in Germany. Photo: Ulli Koch

December 10, 2022, 4:32 pm

Why did the son of a Holocaust survivor apply for a German passport?

Despite the horrors his family endured, former Labour MP and author Peter Bradley has reconciled with modern Germany

By Peter Bradley

Nazis remove Jewish prayer books from a shul for burning during Kristallnacht in 1938. Credit: Yad Vashem

November 10, 2022, 1:01 pm

Yad Vashem Holocaust Museum releases rare photos of Kristallnacht

91 Jews were killed in attacks between November 9-10 in 1938, while 30,000 Jewish men were arrested and later sent to concentration camps

By Jotam Confino in Israel

Pedestrians viewing a Jewish-owned store in Berlin damaged during Kristallnacht, November 10, 1938.

September 25, 2022, 11:16 am

Compensation schemes for confiscated Second World War assets to end

After nearly a quarter of a century, the government has announced the end of two schemes aimed at helping people who had assets confiscated under Nazi occupation.

By Jenni Frazer

Annalisa Dorzback (right) with sister, Charlotte (left).

May 3, 2022, 11:02 am

OPINION: My great aunt’s story is a powerful testimony in the face of nationalism and terror

Images of Ukrainian women and children carrying possessions in prams, waiting for trains to take them to safety, stir the collective memory of the Jewish community.

By Bella Wallersteiner

Shoppers at a Walmart in Marshall, Minn., wearing Nazi swastika masks, July 25, 2020. (Screenshot via JTA)

July 27, 2020, 4:07 pm

Couple wearing swastika masks at US store confronted by other shoppers

'If you vote for Joe Biden, you’re going to be living in Nazi Germany,' the woman in the video said

By JTA

June 17, 2020, 2:57 pm

Holocaust app teaches primary pupils through eyes of Jewish boy in 1930s Berlin

‘The Journey’ lets pupils navigate 360-degree virtual environment, with a survivor saying 'it gives primary school children an experience of what it was like under the Nazis'

By Jewish News Reporter

The Prince of Wales speaking at the World Holocaust Forum at Yad Vashem, (Photo credit: Oded Karni/Government Press Office/PA Wire)

February 4, 2020, 2:54 pm

Yad Vashem sorry for ‘errors’ in films screened at Auschwitz commemoration

Holocaust memorial museum in Israel emailed leading Holocaust educators about 'inaccuracies that resulted in a partial and unbalanced presentation of the historical facts'

By JTA

Goebbels giving a speech in Berlin (1934).

January 21, 2020, 12:51 pm

Brazilian minister fired for using excerpts of speech by Joseph Goebbels

President Jair Bolsonaro expresses opposition to 'totalitarian and genocidal ideologies' after firing Roberto Alvim as culture minister

September 6, 2019, 12:13 pm

Campaign launched to restore Jewish books

Italian Jewish Communities crowdfunding to restore cultural artefacts, including the library of the Italian Rabbinical School in Rome, plundered by Nazi Germany during the war

By Jenni Frazer

Alice Shalvi as she donated her archive to Israel's National Library. Credit Hanan Cohen National Library of Israel

June 12, 2019, 4:42 pm

Alice Shalvi among 240 Jewish and Israeli academics protesting German BDS law

German-born British activist who topped Jewish News' Aliyah 100 list, criticises controversial plan in Germany to equate boycotting Israel with antisemitism

By Jewish News Reporter

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