German court upholds conviction of former Nazi camp secretary

A German court on Tuesday rejected an appeal by Irmgard Furchner, 99, who was convicted in 2022 for complicity in the murder of over 10,000 people during the Holocaust. Read more

Honouring Raoul Wallenberg: A hero’s legacy

Not many in Sydney’s Jewish community would know that on a small traffic island on the corner of Queen St and Edgecliff Road in Woollahra there is a memorial dedicated to Swedish Holocaust hero Raoul Wallenberg, who during 1944 and 1945 saved thousands of Jewish lives in Hungary. Read more

New centre at Yad Vashem showcases millions of Holocaust artifacts

Yad Vashem, the World Holocaust Remembrance Centre in Jerusalem, has inaugurated a new home for the world’s largest collection of Shoah-related materials. Read more

More funds for Holocaust survivors

The Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany (Claims Conference) has announced an A$170 million increase in funding for social welfare services, involving acute assistance for Holocaust survivors for each of the next two years. Read more

Who is your Holocaust hero?

On this year’s Holocaust Martyrs’ and Heroes’ Remembrance Day, Yad Vashem launched its “Who Is Your Holocaust Hero?” campaign. Read more

Jonathan Glazer gets another serve

Australian Association of Jewish Holocaust Survivors & Descendants could not let Jonathan Glazer’s prepared Oscar speech pass by without its comment. Read more

International Holocaust Remembrance Day 

A message from the Leader of the Opposition, Peter Dutton. Read more

Red Cross finds little sympathy among Israelis amid accusations of ineptitude, bias

“Humanitarianism,” “compassion,” “neutrality”—these are the words the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) would like linked to its name. Read more

Holocaust, Hollywood, homeless: The incredible life – and bizarre death – of an Aussie rolling stone

Burying a complete stranger – let alone a child survivor of the Holocaust – was not on the itinerary for a group of Jewish Sydneysiders holidaying this week on the mid-north coast of New South Wales. Read more

Indigenous Friends of Israel slams The Greens

Indigenous Friends of Israel founders Norman and Barbara Miller condemn the ignorance, racism, and antisemitism of the Greens MPs in the Australian Senate in recent weeks and of the Greens’ mayoral candidate for Brisbane, Jonathan Sriranganathan. Read more

Neighbours ‘stunned’ after ex-SS soldier found living in sleepy English suburb

A British newspaper has revealed the hidden past of a 97-year-old gardening enthusiast living in a quiet Nottingham suburb, once a member of Hitler’s notorious Waffen SS Galizien. Read more

A letter from survivors

We, the undersigned Holocaust survivors, are the last witnesses to the unspeakable horrors of the Nazi regime. Read more

Letter shows Pope Pius XII likely knew of Nazi crimes

Newly discovered correspondence suggests that World War II-era Pope Pius XII had detailed information from a trusted German Jesuit that up to 6,000 Jews and Poles were being gassed each day in German-occupied Poland. Read more

Jemima Montag wins world silver medal

Drawing strength and inspiration from her late grandmother, who was a Holocaust survivor, Melbourne walker Jemima Montag has dug deep to claim the 20km silver medal at the world championships in Budapest. Read more

Yad Vashem: Polish parliamentarian’s effort to silence historian ‘a new low’

A member of the Polish parliament allegedly assaulted a Polish-Canadian historian on May 31 who suggested that Poland was complicit in Nazi atrocities. Read more

The Holocaust and the Australian Aboriginal response

Biographer Barbara Miller has published a handbook online focusing on Australia’s response to the events leading up to and during the Holocaust. Read more

Labor to tackle antisemitism and to improve Holocaust education in NSW schools

If Labor wins next week’s NSW Government election,  it will instigate new measures to tackle the concerning rise in religious bullying across NSW schools, including a proposed landmark partnership agreement with faith communities. Read more

Yad Vashem-sponsored symphony celebrates Japanese diplomat who saved Jews during the Holocaust

Samurai warriors live by the moral code bushido, or “way of the warrior.” Read more

Shabbat Tetzaveh & Zachor: Amelek

The Shabbat before Purim is always called Shabbat Zachor, the Shabbat when we remember. Read more

Majority of Dutch adults don’t know the Holocaust occurred in the Netherlands, study finds

The Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany (Claims Conference) on Wednesday released a new study which exposed a disturbing lack of awareness of key historical facts about the Holocaust and the Netherlands’ own connection to Holocaust history. Read more

Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese send a video message on International Holocaust Remembrance Day. Read more

South African documentary on Holocaust survivor

The Ritz Cinemas, Sydney and Classic Cinemas, Melbourne, will present a Q&A screening of the deeply moving documentary I AM HERE. Read more

Holocaust documentary asks why Lithuania honours villains as heroes

Grant Gochin had seen documentation of Jonas Noreika’s signature ordering the construction of a ghetto to confine Lithuanian Jews who would be brutally shot to death. Read more

Whoopi Goldberg revisits controversial Shoah remarks

“The View” co-host Whoopi Goldberg appeared to double down on her controversial Holocaust comments that earned her a suspension from the show in February. Read more

Concert featuring Holocaust songs to perform at Carnegie Hall

The day Elie Wiesel died, composer and music producer, Ira Antelis, said something came over him. Read more

Australia: The Unpromised Land

Earlier this month, the story of a plan to settle 125,000 victims of the Holocaust in Australia was told during Holocaust Education Week in Toronto, Canada. Read more

Abbas takes back comments accusing Israel of committing ‘50 Holocausts’

Palestinian Authority chief Mahmoud Abbas has taken back comments made in Germany on Tuesday accusing Israel of committing “50 Holocausts” against the Palestinians. Read more

Milan honoured for helping to save Jews from Nazi concentration camps

The city of Milan, Italy, has been named an honorary member of the International Raoul Wallenberg Foundation (IRWF) in recognition of its residents’ efforts to help rescue Jews from Nazi concentration camps during the Holocaust. Read more

TPS exclusive: PA source states Mahmoud Abbas’ time as its leader may be numbered after his Holocaust comments

A source in the Palestinian Authority (PA) told TPS on Wednesday that the “unfortunate” words of PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas (also known as Abu Mazen) accusing Israel of committing “50 holocausts” against Palestinians were a self-inflicted wound for international public opinion toward the Palestinian cause. Read more

Why the world won’t care about Abbas’s ‘Holocaust’ lie

There’s something almost pathetic about the outrage generated after the latest comments by Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas. Read more

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