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Six of the Bernstein siblings are pictured in Ylakiai, Lithuania, in February 1933. Top row, from left: Arye-Leib, Ida and Benzion; bottom row, from left: Rivka, Menachem and Hinda. They were all murdered in the Holocaust except for Ida, who immigrated to Eretz Israel (Mandatory Palestine) on Feb. 5, 1933, taking this photo with her.

Yad Vashem online exhibit touts family power

As the world marks Yom Hashoah — Holocaust Memorial Day — this week, the enduring strength of the Jewish family is on full view in a new online exhibition … more

By Deborah Fineblum, JNS | 4/7/21

Adolf Hitler and members of the Nazi Party ogle a model of the German-made Volkswagon Beetle with the notion that every family in the country should have one. Opening the trunk, at left, is Ferdinand Porsche, founder of the Porsche company.

‘Voltswagen’ stunt reminds us of firm’s legacy

Volkswagen chief executive Herbert Diess issued a public apology after using the line Ebit macht frei at a company event. The phrase echoed the words arbeit macht frei, meaning “work sets you … more

By Gabriel Eichler, JNS | 4/7/21

UJA seeks more aid for poverty-stricken survivors

UJA-Federation of New York is campaigning to insert into New York State’s estimated $103.4 billion budget an allocation of $2.5 million in aid for poverty-stricken Holocaust survivors. … more

By Jeffrey Bessen | 3/22/21

"IBM and the Holocaust" remains a best-seller 20 years after its first publication.

IBM has proven that some corporations can get away with murder and still function with impunity

Twenty years ago this week, my book, “IBM and the Holocaust,” exposed with crystal clarity — backed up with a literal tower of physical documentation — that IBM knowingly … more

By Edwin Black | 2/10/21

The Hall of Names in the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial Museum in Jerusalem in April 2020.

World needs to stop whitewashing key Shoah fact: Its victims were individuals … and they were Jews

Elie Wiesel penned his first memoir about being a Jewish prisoner in the Auschwitz and Buchenwald concentration camps while traveling on a ship from Europe to Brazil in 1954. Later, reworking … more

By Fiamma Nirenstein | 2/3/21

President Franklin D. Roosevelt reviews his troops in Casablanca from a jeep, on Jan. 14, 1943. The tall walking figure at his side is Lieutenant General Mark W. Clark.

FDR, Nazis, Moroccan Jews: a troubling episode

The normalization of relations between Israel and Morocco and the US recognition of Moroccan sovereignty over the disputed Western Sahara have stirred interest in the history of Morocco’s … more

By Rafael Medoff | 12/30/20

A view of proceedings at the Nuremberg trials.

Nuremberg’s universalism undermined noble aims

This weekend marks 75 years since the start of the Nuremberg tribunals, which tried leaders of Nazi Germany for their part in the Holocaust and other war crimes. A clear line links these … more

By Melanie Phillips | 11/25/20

Left/right divide over Yad Vashem

One of the latest political disputes in Israel is happening in an unlikely place — the national Holocaust museum, Yad Vashem. News emerged in August that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin … more

By Ben Sales, JTA | 11/19/20

Rhoda Smolow of Great Neck, national president of Hadassah the Women’s Zionist Organization of America.

It’s time to write IHRA definition into law

In May 2016, the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) gifted the world an opportunity to abandon subjective decisions of what qualifies as anti-Semitism. The IHRA, 31 nations … more

By Rhoda Smolow | 10/14/20

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and his wife, Susan, left, visit the Jewish Museum of Thessaloniki, Greece with members of the local Jewish community, on Yom Kippur.

Pompeo’s Yom Kippur visit a dilemma for Greek Jews

Any other day of the year would have been easier for the head rabbi of Thessaloniki, Greece, to welcome Mike Pompeo for a visit. The Secretary of State’s schedule for a whirlwind tour of … more

By Cnaan Liphshiz, JTA | 10/1/20