Holocaust Archives

April 25, 2025
International
World

Israel’s Netanyahu calls Hamas ‘Nazis’ at Holocaust memorial

Commemorated both in Israel and in Jewish communities around the world, this year’s Holocaust Remembrance Day started with a ceremony on Wednesday evening at Yad Vashem, the world’s most well-known Holocaust museum in Jerusalem.The ceremony took place amid the ongoing war in Gaza, and with the political situation in Israel threatening to escalate into an […]

April 24, 2025
Femke
Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity
Halsema
Holocaust and the Nazi Era
International
Netherlands
War Crimes
World
World War II (1939-45)

Amsterdam’s Mayor Apologizes for City’s Role in the Holocaust

Eighty years since the end of World War II, Mayor Femke Halsema of Amsterdam apologized on Thursday for the city’s role in the persecution of its Jewish residents during the Holocaust, in a rare acknowledgment of a collective moral failure by a city leader. “Amsterdam’s’ government was, when it mattered, not heroic, not determined and […]