World war ii

'Kotsuji's Gift': The Japanese scholar who rescued Jewish refugees during World War II - review

The picture is cropped. A Japanese man standing to one side has been cut away. That man is Kotsuji, and the book is the long work of putting him back.

A JEWISH GIRL and her Chinese friends in the Shanghai Ghetto, 1945, from the collection of the Shanghai Jewish Refugees Museum.
A portrait of the late historian and resistance fighter Marc Bloch adorns the facade of the Pantheon before his induction ceremony along with his wife Simonne Vidal in Paris, France, June 23, 2026.

Jewish hero’s inclusion in French Panthéon uncorks divisions over who wears mantle of resistance

A general view of the White House in Washington, DC, US, July 20, 2025.

America’s ‘luck’ is running out: The lost industrial engine that powered US greatness - opinion

Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky delivers a speech during a joint press conference with France's President Emmanuel Macron, at the Elysee Palace in Paris, March 13, 2026.

Poland strips Zelensky of country's highest honor over WW2 dispute


On this day: Adolf Eichmann captured in Argentina by Mossad

Eichmann was hanged at midnight on June 1, 1962; he was the only person in Israel’s history to be executed by the state.

 Adolf Eichmann, pictured in 1941/1942, in his SS uniform. Eichmann fled to Argentina in 1950 before being captured by the Mossad in 1960.

Agents of chaos are reshaping a world beyond post–World War II norms - opinion

Agents of chaos should be the ones who are given no quarter by the public whenever the opportunity arises.

National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir gestures on the day the Supreme Court hears a petition seeking to force the prime minister to oust him, in Jerusalem.

Peruvian president claims Jews pushed Germany into war because 'they controlled banks'

The comments were made on Tuesday during a speech at a ceremony for the 138th anniversary of the Chamber of Commerce of Lima.

JOSE BALCAZAR leaves the Faustino Sanchez Carrion building after he was elected as interim president, following a session by Peruvian lawmakers to choose a new leader of Congress to assume Peru's presidency, in Lima, Peru, February 18, 2026.

Europe at a crossroads between denial and reality - opinion

Across Europe, rising unrest and policy hesitation are exposing cracks in governance, identity, and state authority.

A demonstrator, standing next to an England flag, gestures as a Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) vessel carrying migrants arrives at the Port of Dover, Britain, April 1, 2026.

New ‘information center’ in Polish town denies murders of Jews by local Poles in 1941

The information center was installed earlier this month and celebrated with a ribbon-cutting ceremony, which Wojciech Sumlinski, a right-wing Polish activist, shared online.

A container installed near the site of the Jedwabne pogrom proclaims in Polish, "The earth doesn't lie." The container, installed in April 2026, promotes the narrative that Nazis, not Poles, killed the Jews of Jedwabne in 1941.

From Lithuania to Jerusalem, a Holocaust survivor shares his story with diplomats

At the event organized by Zikaron Basalon and the Anti-Defamation League at the latter’s Jerusalem office, Clevs brought the diplomats back in time to when he was eight years old.

A Zikaron Basalon event held at the Anti-Defamation League office in Jerusalem on April 14, 2026.

Holocaust education gets a bad rap, but it’s not falling short, we are - opinion

Countering misinformation, disinformation, and lies with facts and evidence will always be an uphill battle, but in the end, Holocaust educators’ first responsibility is to get this history right.

Participants stand under the main gate with the lettering 'Arbeit macht frei' (Work sets you free) as they attend the annual March of The Living to commemorate the victims of the Holocaust during World War II, April 14, 2026.

From Vilna to Eretz Yisrael: One Holocaust survivor's journey to Israel

Dov Levin escaped the Kovno Ghetto, fought in the forests, and crossed war-torn Europe alone to reach Israel - documenting every step of a journey defined by loss, resilience, and purpose.

The Ninth Fort Memorial for Kovno Ghetto Jews executed by the Nazis, in Kaunus (Kovno), Lithuania.

Modigliani painting looted, resold by Nazis returned to estate of rightful Jewish owner

The estate of Oscar Stettiner, a British-born Jewish art dealer in Paris, has been engaged in a lengthy legal battle to retrieve Seated Man With a Cane by Amadeo Modigliani.

Seated Man With a Cane by Amadeo Modigliani

A lost novel from 1943 that predicted the Holocaust has been recovered

Friedrich Torberg recorded his image of a German concentration camp in “Mein ist die Rache,” written decades before the capitalized “Holocaust” entered common parlance.

A portrait of Friedrich Torberg, Jan. 1, 1970.