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 GENE SIMMONS of KISS attends the 2021 Tribeca Festival screening of ‘Biography: KISStory’ in New York City in 2021.

Gene Simmons: I never touched drugs because of my mother’s suffering in the Holocaust

 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.’

Forging bonds of faith: A Rabbi's journey with evangelical Christians in Poland

By JOSHUA STANTON
 Irmgard Furchner, a former secretary for the SS commander of the Stutthof concentration camp, arrives with her lawyers during her trial in Itzehoe, Germany, Dec. 6, 2022. German courts require the face of defendants to be obscured in photographs.

Germany court upholds conviction of 99-year-old former Nazi concentration camp secretary

By TOBY AXELROD/JTA
 Irmgard Furchner, a 96-year-old former secretary to the SS commander of the Stutthof concentration camp, is pictured at the beginning of her trial in a courtroom, in Itzehoe, Germany, October 19, 2021.

Court upholds 99-year-old Nazi camp worker's murder conviction

By REUTERS
 Maryana Chechelyuk, before and after her captivity.

Harrowing torture: Ukrainian prisoners suffer severe abuse in Russian captivity

By VERONICA NEIFAKH/THE MEDIA LINE
A memorial stone is pictured at the former Bergen-Belsen Nazi death camp

English soccer fans and officials visit Holocaust sites in Germany

  Auschwitz concentration camp, operated by Nazi Germany in occupied Poland during the Holocaust.

Virtual reality tour of Auschwitz available to New Yorkers this month

 A SCENE from ‘Delegation.’

Israeli director tackles film about a class trip to Poland

Karen Frostig has been working for nearly two decades to build a memorial at Jungfernhof, the Latvian site where the Nazis likely murdered her grandparents.

This artist is fighting for a memorial for the 4000 killed in at Jungfernhof, a Nazi camp in Latvia

By Deborah Lynn Blumberg/JTA
 A DEMONSTRATOR holds a sign that reads “Never Again is Now” during a protest against right-wing extremism and the far-Right opposition Alternative for Germany (AfD), in Cologne, in January.

Saying ‘Never Again is Now’ to European Jews is an insult

By MENACHEM MARGOLIN
The barracks at Stutthof concentration camp after liberation.

'Secret Jew': Polish ‘countess’ saved thousands of concentration camp prisoners from the Nazis.

By SHIRA LI BARTOV/JTA
 Illustrative image of an arrest.

Israeli man charged for inciting terror, rape, genocide of Palestinians

By YOAV ETIEL/WALLA
A red flower is seen on a wall during a commemoration of the liberation of the former concentration camp KZ Mauthausen, at the memorial site in Mauthausen, Austria, May 7, 2023.

98-year-old German man charged with accessory to murder at Nazi concentration camp

By Jackie Hajdenberg/JTA
 SIDNEY TAUSSIG in the documentary, ‘The Boys of Terezin.’

Sidney Taussig: The Holocaust survivor from Home One who saved history

By EVE GLOVER
 Auschwitz concentration camp in Oświęcim

New virtual tours of Concentration Camps upgrade Holocaust education

By YUVAL BAGNO/MAARIV
 A 101-year-old former security guard of the Sachsenhausen concentration camp appears in the courtroom before his trial verdict at the Landgericht Neuruppin court, in Brandenburg, Germany June 28, 2022.

German man who was oldest-ever person tried for Nazi crimes has died at 102

By Jackie Hajdenberg/JTA
 Jewish Youth from all over the world participating in the March of the Living  seen at the Auschwitz-Birkenau camp site in Poland, as Israel marks annual Holocaust Memorial Day, on April 16, 2015.

Can social media become the new classroom for Holocaust education?

By SHANNA FULD
 Jewish Youth from all over the world participating in the March of the Living  seen at the Auschwitz-Birkenau camp site in Poland, as Israel marks annual Holocaust Memorial Day, on April 16, 2015.

Israel must reassess its handling of Holocaust school trips to Poland - editorial