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The Holocaust and the Second Holocaust

Monument to the victims of the Babi Yar massacre, Kyiv. Illustration: depositphotos.com

A police force made up of Ukrainians participated in the murder of Jews in the Holocaust

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Non-Jewish Ukrainian writers tried to raise awareness of large-scale Ukrainian collaboration with the Nazis, but the Ukrainian public still does not recognize this, mainly due to the Soviet regime and many Ukrainian governments ignoring those who aided the Nazis and focusing on Soviet heroism against the Nazis * Only recently has there been an improvement, but it is still not felt on the ground
Sending Jews from one of the ghettos in Poland to Auschwitz. Illustration: depositphotos.com

Defiance against the Holocaust does not mean only uprising and rebellion: remember the daily resistance of the Jews

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Every Holocaust survivor had countless moments in which the story could have ended. The mutual aid - starting with food smuggling, and even in successful local resistance events
A monument to the memory of Janusz Korczak, who perished in the gas chamber in the Treblinka extermination camp in 1942, together with the children of the Jewish orphanage he ran in the Warsaw ghetto. Illustration: depositphotos.com

"By policing history, the Polish government distorts the Holocaust"

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This is what the Polish historian Jan Grabowski writes. The article was published on The Conversation Canada website on February 14, 2023
The Shoe Monument on the banks of the Danube in Budapest, a place where the Jews of the city were drowned. Illustration: depositphotos.com

The report on the state of anti-Semitism in the world for 2022: most of the victims of violent anti-Semitic attacks in the West - ultra-Orthodox Jews

The annual report of Tel Aviv University in collaboration with the "Anti-Defamation League" in preparation for Holocaust Day, but according to Prof. Uriah Shavit, head of the Center for the Study of European Jewry at Tel Aviv University: "With all the sadness in this, on the eve of this Holocaust Day it should be remembered that Jewish racism is not Better than any other racism. It must be condemned, confiscated and eradicated."
The horrifying children's game "Jews Out!" [Juden Raus!] produced in Nazi Germany. Photo: Wiener Library, Tel Aviv University

A creepy children's game from the time of Nazi Germany

This is a kind of "monopoly" game whose goal is to quickly collect six "Jewish hats" and bring them to collection points
A yellow patch was found on the clothes of one of the murdered in Auschwitz 2 - Birkenau. Illustration: depositphotos.com

On the occasion of International Holocaust Remembrance Day: the annual report "For a noble cause"

The teaching of the Holocaust is also expanding to countries that previously did not teach about it - mainly Africa and Arab countries, according to a report by the Center for the Study of European Jewry in our time at Tel Aviv University

Looking for a way to reconcile

Vancouver, Canada - September 8, 2021: A view of the 'The Holocaust began with the demonization and marginalization of certain groups' sign during the BC Anti-Vaccine Card rally in front of Vancouver City Hall - photo by Margarita_Young. Illustration: depositphotos.com

Has the fight against antisemitism failed?

The annual report of the "Center for the Study of European Jewry Today" on the state of anti-Semitism in the world reveals: 2021 was a record year for anti-Semitism
Nuclear bomb. Courtesy of Oranim College spokespersons

The Jews, the Nazis and the race for the atomic bomb

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To what extent did refugee Jewish scientists contribute to the creation of the atomic bomb? And how close did the Nazi scientists in Germany come to creating such a bomb? Professor Alex Gordon from the Department of Mathematical Sciences - Physics and Computer Sciences at Oranim College Oranim College explains and discusses the various and inaccurate versions created around the affair, which was the biggest secret of World War II, after the war
The display of the shoes of the victims of the Holocaust who were murdered in Auschwitz - Birkenau. Illustration: depositphotos.com

New research: Many Germans were compensated by the West German government for lost property they stole from Jews

A study carried out by a researcher from the Hebrew University reveals an alleged connection between the compensations for Holocaust survivors and compensations given to Germans from ethnic minorities, who took over Jewish property in Eastern and Central European countries and were deported from there at the end of World War II
The decommissioning of the nuclear reactor at Haigerloch, Germany, April 1945. From Wikipedia

Researching the origin of uranium ingots from Nazi Germany

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Before Nazi Germany got hold of it, the Allies disrupted this plan and seized the uranium ingots that were at the heart of the plan. The fate of most of these ingots is unknown, but some of them ended up in the hands of the US and European countries. American chemists have developed a method to identify the mine from which the uranium came
The excavation of the Great Synagogue of Vilna showing the floor of the platform next to the pillar of the building.

The remains of the Ark of the Covenant and the platform of the Great Synagogue in Vilnius from the 18th century have been fully exposed

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The synagogue was destroyed during the Nazi rule in the Holocaust, but the Soviets are the ones who completed the demolition * The independent Lithuanian government in cooperation with Israel is restoring the building. The exhibits will likely be displayed in a permanent exhibition in the renovated building
A prisoner loses consciousness in a cell that simulates atmospheric conditions at an altitude of 15 kilometers. Photo: Sigmund Rascher

Things that donors know: Is there any scientific value to the experiments conducted by the Nazis in the concentration camps?

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AA asks: Nazi scientists during the war were given access to conduct experiments on human beings freed from any ethical or moral restrictions. Did they succeed in achieving anything? Can we see any contribution to science in the things that were done?
Memorial ceremony for the liberation of Auschwitz, January 27, 2017. With the participation of camp survivors. Photo: shutterstock

Holocaust survivors die more from heart disease and cancer and feel more lonely

This is according to two separate studies by the Hebrew University and the University of Haifa. The study at the Hebrew University dealt with the mortality rates of Holocaust survivors, while that of Haifa University revealed that survivors who were lonely during the Holocaust suffer from loneliness in their old age
The power to say no! Hamburg 1936 Celebrations in honor of a new ship. The circled man does not do the well-known Nazi trick. The man's name is August Landmesser who was sentenced to two years of hard labor for marrying a Jewess. He chooses not to follow the consensus and the enthusiastic crowd.

Holocaust Day: Is man's nature evil from his youth? And maybe better than his youth?

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Following the Holocaust, studies were conducted in social psychology that shed light on the human being and raise a well-founded fear that we have very destructive tendencies. But does this mean that man's creation is indeed bad? Does the human race have hope?
American soldiers evacuate survivors of a liberated concentration camp, some in ambulances. Photo: shutterstock

Science, race and politics - the scientists in Nazi Germany

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When politics reaches out to science, does science benefit? The answer is negative. Scientists, even Jews who served under the Nazi regime were unable to produce quality science because of the social pressure to adapt the results to the government's requirements
A briefing for German soldiers in 1933. From a vintage card attached to cigarette packs. The main entrance to the Auschwitz 1 extermination camp, Poland. Image: depositphotos.com

How do you prevent phenomena like the Holocaust from happening again?

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Experiments show that we are very submissive when there is a social consensus and we will change our decisions according to this agreement, even if we know that the majority is wrong, that these tendencies are deeply ingrained in man. So is it even possible to prevent phenomena like the Holocaust from happening again in the future?
The tag of the girl Annie Caper. On this side - the girl's name and address. Photo by Yoram Chaimi

Personal identification tags worn by four children sent to the extermination camp in Sobibor, Poland, were uncovered in an archaeological dig at the site

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The children of the tags: Leah Yehudit Delpaniya, Dedi Zak, Annie Caper, the child David Yehuda. Yoram Chaimi, archaeologist of the Antiquities Authority: "I have been digging at the site for ten years, and on this day I broke down."
A 1995 US stamp depicting the liberation of Holocaust survivors from the camps by the Allies in early 1945. catwalker / Shutterstock.com

The "TikTok Holocaust" trend shows that we need to teach the ethics of remembrance

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Some of the creators of the "TikTok Shoah" videos painted bruises or burns on themselves using make-up. Others wore striped uniforms, imitating those worn by the prisoners in the concentration camps or wore a yellow star with the word "Jude" (Jew) printed on it - in correspondence with the yellow patch that the Jews were forced to sew on their clothes in Nazi Germany
A boy raises his hands during the removal of Jews from the bunkers during the suppression of the uprising in Warsaw, 1943. The boy has been identified as Artur Domb Semyontek, Israel Rundel, Zvi Nussbaum or Levi Zelinorger. German Federal Archives / Public domain

How the Jews stopped the typhoid epidemic in the Warsaw Ghetto, under the worst conditions imaginable

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A tombstone in memory of the Jews of Miedel (then in Poland, now in Belarus) who were executed in September 1942. Photo: Avi Blizovsky

The state of Holocaust research and studies in Israel is deteriorating

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Barracks in the Auschwitz concentration camp. Photo: shutterstock

Women adopted different survival tactics than men in Auschwitz

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A 200-year-old inscription in Hebrew that was discovered in the excavations of the Great Synagogue in Vilnius. Photo: Dr. Yochanan Zeligman, Antiquities Authority

A 200-year-old Hebrew inscription was discovered in the excavations of the Great Synagogue in Vilnius

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The late Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel in a photo from 2012. From Wikipedia

The Nobel Peace Prize laureate, the late Elie Wiesel, in an interview he gave to the website Hadaan in 2008: Scientists must not cooperate with dangerous regimes

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The escape tunnel of the prisoners from Ponar forest was located

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