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Palestinian Hamas militants release female Israeli soldier Agam Berger held in Gaza since the deadly October 7 2023 attack, as part of a ceasefire and a hostages-prisoners swap deal between Hamas and Israel, in Jabalia, in the northern Gaza Strip, January 30, 2025.

Ex-hostage to deliver violin performance at Auschwitz

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

MIKE HUCKABEE (center) visits the City of David in Jerusalem in 2009.

Grapevine April 16, 2025: Hailing Huckabee

By GREER FAY CASHMAN

Auschwitz-Birkenau

80 years after Auschwitz, kosher food will be sold in its town of Oświęcim

By SHIRA LI BARTOV/JTA

El Al plane

Israeli students' flight to Poland forced to make emergency stop in Turkey

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

Viktor Frankl: In our response lies our growth and freedom

When theory becomes life: Viktor Frankl's legacy for modern Israel

By Dr. Haim Ben Yakov

OSWIECIM, POLAND - APRIL 16, 2015: International Holocaust Remembrance Day.

Confronting the complex realities of Polish-Jewish identity

Gyorgy Kun in his testimony to the USC Shoah Foundation, 1999

György Kun, Hungarian survivor of Dr. Mengele's twin experiments in Auschwitz, dies at 93

By Mathilda Heller

THE FRONT GATE of Auschwitz carries the infamous phrase: ‘Arbeit macht frei.’ The writer states: ‘Perhaps we as Jews are less alone in our grief than we may fear.’

Israeli student arrested for Nazi salute at Auschwitz during school trip

By CORINNE BAUM

THE FRONT GATE of Auschwitz carries the infamous phrase: ‘Arbeit macht frei.’ The writer states: ‘Perhaps we as Jews are less alone in our grief than we may fear.’

Auschwitz Museum confiscates hostage flags claiming its a 'political statement'

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

FORMER AUSTRIAN CHANCELLOR Sebastian Kurz in Vienna, Austria, 2023

'The Abraham Accords will survive October 7,' says former Austrian chancellor

Marian Turski, Polish historian, journalist and Holocaust survivor, speaks during a commemoration event marking the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi German Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration and extermination camp in Brzezinka, Poland January 27, 2025.

Marian Turski, Auschwitz survivor and journalist, dies at 98

By REUTERS

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‘Zone of Interest’ Nazi house to become center to combat antisemitism

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

Jerusalen, Israel, 04-15-2019: Photographs of missing children victims of the Holocaust perpetrated by the Nazis against the Jews at the Holocaust History Museum

Historical theft: A deliberate new antisemitism that erases Jews

By JONATHAN LIEBERMAN

'THIS PAST week's co-naming of a street in New York City as Yad Vashem Way is a significant turn in events; in a city that never sleeps, this street sign stands high as a beacon of remembrance and a call to action for all humanity,' the writer states.

Other cities should follow New York's example and establish Yad Vashem Way

By DANI DAYAN

MONTANA TUCKER participates in a Combat Antisemitism Movement (CAM) Mayors Summit Against Antisemitism held in Beverly Hills last month.

Our role as third-generation Holocaust survivors

By MONTANA TUCKER , SACHA ROYTMAN DRATWA

HOLOCAUST SURVIVORS (from left to right): George Shefi, 93, Walter Bingham, 101, and Paul Alexander, 89, who came to the UK on the kindertransport are pictured with relatives at the residence of the British ambassador to Israel.

Grapevine January 31, 2025: The long road to freedom

By GREER FAY CASHMAN

The mural stands in the Jewish ghetto of Rome, January 30, 2025.

Defaced Auschwitz survivor mural finds new home at Rome’s Shoah Museum

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

Maximilian Krah, Alternative for Germany (AfD) party member and member of the European Parliament of the Identity and Democracy (ID) group, speaks during the European election assembly 2023 of the Alternative for Germany (AfD) in Magdeburg, Germany, July 29, 2023.

Holocaust survivor to return German award over far-right role in parliamentary vote

By REUTERS