Jewish History

During renovations at the Max Planck Psychiatric Institute in Munich, dozens of brains and brain parts of Jewish victims of the Holocaust were discovered, according to Army Radio this morning (Wednesday). In the wake of the discovery, a committee has been established in order to ascertain in greater detail the story of the samples. The […]

The wife of Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels had a Jewish father, according to a new document discovered in the Berlin archives. The document was published in the German newspaper Bild, the London-based Jewish Chronicle reported last week. It shows that the father of Magda Goebbels was a Jewish businessman named Richard Friedlander, who married

It’s hard to find words to describe an abomination like Auschwitz, the infamous Holocaust death camp in Nazi-occupied Poland. However, if you choose the wrong words, you might soon end up in jail. This week Poland’s ruling right-wing Law and Justice Party pushed for a new law that would forbid the use of phrases like

The Polish government is pushing to outlaw references linking Nazi war crimes with the people of Poland, the country’s public broadcaster PR reports. The German Nazi government’s invasion and occupation of Poland in the autumn of 1939 is widely regarded as the start of World War II. Several of Nazi death camps used in the

Bratislava (dpa) – A factory in the Czech Republic once used by Oskar Schindler, a business owner whose solidarity with Jews in World War II was the subject of an Oscar-winning film, could be made into a Holocaust memorial, the Novinky.cz news website reported on Monday. The site was bought by the Endowment Fund Memorial