World war ii

Reaccepting the Torah: Looking back the first Shavuot after the fall of Nazi Germany

For many Holocaust survivors, May 18, 1945 was the first Shavuot they were able to celebrate after years of war.

 AMERICAN CHAPLAIN Rabbi Herschel Schacter conducts religious services at the liberated Buchenwald concentration camp in 1945
 Screenshot of an image published by the Facebook page 90's History (left), which the Auschwitz Museum claims has been AI-generated using information and photographs (right) from its website.

'Dangerous distortion,' Auschwitz Museum calls out AI-generated images of Holocaust victims

 OPERATION BENJAMIN’S co-founder and chief historian, Shalom Lamm, estimates that between 600 and 900 American Jewish soldiers from both World Wars are mistakenly buried under crosses. Here, late US serviceman Howard Feldman receives a Jewish headstone.

Operation Benjamin: Finding lost Jewish-American war heroes and honoring their memory

 The other fresh element of “Art Spy” is that Young juxtaposes Rose’s story with that of wealthy-heir-turned-Allied-soldier Alexandre Rosenberg, whose Jewish family fled Paris and had their mammoth art collection ripped from the walls of their home.

Review: Meet the woman who saved countless art masterpieces from the Nazis


French Jewish WWII spy Marthe Cohn dies at 105

During her time as a spy, she was able to provide the French military with information on German positions, contributing to several notable victories.

Marthe Cohn

Argentina's top court finds 80 boxes of Nazi materials in its basement

The Argentinian officials found postcards, photographs, notebooks, and propaganda material from the Nazi regime.

 Employees handle a box with Nazi-related material that was among several boxes originally confiscated by local authorities when they were shipped to Argentina in 1941, after the boxes were recently discovered by chance in the archives of the Supreme Court of Argentina, in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Victory over Nazism and the rise of a Jewish homeland: a personal reflection – opinion

80 years after VE day, a survivor of the Holocaust reflects on antisemtism, the Nazi regime, and the modern State of Israel.

  Starving Holocaust survivors. Bones are brittle and muscles are atrophied

Germany's new challenges 80 years after VE day: AfD, antisemitism, and new politics

EUROPE AFFAIRS: The political climate in Germany is shifting as the AfD rises in power, raising concerns about the future of Holocaust memory and the country’s commitment to Shoah remembrance.

 ‘YOU CAN’T ban 10 million AfD voters.’ Amid the tensions in Germany over the rise of the far right, new German Chancellor Friedrich Merz stands at the Neue Wache Memorial for Victims of War and Tyranny during commemorations to mark the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II.

'Israel knows what’s best for national security,’ ambassador to Germany tells 'Post'

DIPLOMATIC AFFAIRS: Ambassador to Germany Ron Prosor speaks to The Jerusalem Post on 60 years of diplomatic relations between the countries.

 ‘[ISRAELI-GERMAN] relations are not to be taken for granted.’ Ambassador to Germany Ron Prosor delivers a speech during a commemoration ceremony at the Bergen-Belsen Memorial in Lohheide, northern Germany, in April, to mark the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the concentration camp.

Former chief rabbi Lau at Knesset: Only unity can overcome evil, then and now

Recounting his liberation from Buchenwald, Rabbi Lau described hiding among corpses during the camp's final days.

Former Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi of Israel and Holocaust survivor, Rabbi Yisrael Meir Lau, tells his story of survival, May 7, 2025.

VE Day in Israel: Celebrating the 80th anniversary and Jewish heroes of the war

The State of Israel also commemorates VE Day on May 9 largely as a result of the massive wave of immigration from the former Soviet bloc during the 1990s.

Veterans march through Jerusalem to mark WW2 Victory in Europe Day.

Why Russia and Israel should celebrate Victory Day over Nazis together - opinion

For Russia and Israel, common historical memory is not just words. It is a common value and a system of coordinates determined by the fates of our heroic ancestors.

 RUSSIAN AMBASSADOR to Israel Anatoly Viktorov.

Argentina declassifies 1,850 documents about Nazi activities in the country

Until now, documentation related to the activities of Nazi leaders in Argentina could only be viewed in a specially designated room at the National Archives.

Declassified documents about Nazi doctor Josef Mengele, who fled to Argentina after World War II.

On this day: Oskar Schindler's birth 117 years ago, and the legacy that lives on today

Seeing the persecution of innocent people, something was triggered within Schindler, and he became driven by the desire to save as many Jews as possible.

The plaque honoring Oskar Schindler in the Mount Zion Franciscan Cemetery, Jerusalem. (Limmud FSU)

Putin declares three-day ceasefire in Ukraine, marking 80 years since WW2

The Kremlin said the 72-hour ceasefire would run for three days either side of May 9.

 Russian President Vladimir Putin addresses the Federal Assembly's Council of Legislators in Saint Petersburg, Russia, April 28, 2025