In an unusually personal letter, Benedict XVI admits mistakes in the handling of a Holocaust-denying bishop....

"BESA: A Code of Honor - Muslim Albanians who rescued Jews during the Holocaust," opened January 27 in Ramle, Israel. Before World War II, only 200 Jews lived in Albania, but after Hitler’s rise to power in 1933, hundreds of Jews crossed into Albania from Yugoslavia, Germany, Greece, Austria and S...

By I still remember the first time I sat down at Yad Vashem in Israel. I wasn’t yet a Jew, hadn’t even found the rabbi with whom I would spend a year studying one-on-one. Nevertheless, on what was an idyllic summer day, I strode into the Children’s Memorial with all the desire in the world to ...

Image via Wikipedia The Holocaust From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia [show]Map of all coordinates “Selection” on the Judenrampe, Auschwitz, May/June 1944. To be sent to the right meant slave labor; to the left, the gas chambers. This image shows the arrival of Hungarian Jews from Carp...

(click on picture to view larger size) On November 9, 1938, the Nazis unleashed a series of riots against the Jews in Germany and Austria. In the space of a few hours, thousands of synagogues and Jewish businesses and homes were damaged or destroyed. For the first time, tens of thousands of Jews wer...

Author: Tamar Fox Posted to Jewcy: June 23, 2008 4:26 pm===== I was struck last week by several Holocaust-related stories in the news, and specifically how they all have the typical tunnel vision we’ve come to expect from anything vaguely related to the Holocaust.  The first covered a former subu...

The memorial for homosexual victims of the Nazi regime, designed by Norwegian artist Ingar Dragset and Danish artist Michael Elmgreen, seen in Berlin on Monday, May 26, 2008. On Tuesday, May 27, 2008 the monument will be unveiled officially. By GEIR MOULSON, Associated Press BERLIN - Germany unveile...

An exhibition at Yad Vashem, the Holocaust memorial in Jerusalem, tells the less known story of the renaissance of Holocaust survivors in Israel and their role in shaping the new state....

  I publish on my blog a page of comics drawings called “The DailyComics Dream“, where I tell in short graphical episodes what happens to me under the Nazi occupation of Belgium in WW2 . With this context in my mind, I see the today  visit, in Israel, of the German chancellor M...