Louisiana’s Jewish community protests nitrogen gas death row executions, seeing a link to ‘the decimation of our people’
A New Orleans-area group decries the state’s efforts to use nitrogen gas to execute death row inmates because, members say, ...
From Holocaust to Oct. 7: The story of the cartoon given to Trump by former hostages
The cartoon illustrated a clear, visual link between the Nazis’ treatment of the Jews and the hostages held in captivity by ...
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Local Jewish Day Schools Help Students Pass the Torch of Holocaust Awareness With In-Depth Program
Holocaust survivors are dwindling in number, leaving younger Jews without the firsthand perspective of the most gruesome massacre ...
Who owns this valuable Nazi-looted painting? A Holocaust survivor’s family or the museum that bought it years later?
The U.S. Supreme Court weighed in on a 20-year dispute over the ownership of an impressionist work valued at tens of million ...
Impressionist work at the heart of ongoing legal battle
A Spanish museum says it did not know the painting was stolen when it purchased the art. An impressionist painting worth tens ...
Skokie’s Illinois Holocaust Museum to close during expansion, will add downtown Chicago site
The Illinois Holocaust Museum in Skokie will close in July 2025 for expansion construction and will add a downtown Chicago ...
How Holocaust films are changing as we lose the survivor generation
Several films have tackled the topic of Holocaust memory in recent years, including 2025 Oscar nominees The Brutalist and A ...
Rose Girone, the oldest known Holocaust survivor, has died at age 113
Rose Girone, the oldest known Holocaust survivor who endured both German and Japanese oppression but lived for eight decades ...
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‘Backbone of the American Dream’: How Rosenwald Schools shaped the civil rights movement
Photographer Andrew Feiler documented the last remaining Rosenwald Schools built to educate Black children during segregation ...
'Violins of Hope' teaches history of the Holocaust through music at schools
Violins of Hope is a project to restore and play instruments once used by Jewish victims of the Holocaust, meant to keep ...
'God must have been watching over me': Woman who lost 93 family members in Holocaust now preserves their legacy
The St. Louis Kaplan Feldman Holocaust Museum gives voice to survivors like 93-year-old Rachel Miller, impacting a new ...
Third generation violinmaker Avshi Weinstein turns trauma from the Holocaust into hope
Avshi Weinstein, a third-generation violinmaker, travels the world with violins that belonged to victims of the Holocaust.