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Cosmetics Company Linked to Deadly Nazi Experiments

Weleda says it's committed to full transparency about its past

(Newser) - A new report commissioned by the Dachau Concentration Camp Memorial Site alleges that Weleda, a Swiss natural cosmetics company, supplied a skin cream to Dachau in the 1940s—cream that, according to historian Anne Sudrow, was tested on prisoners in experiments that caused dozens of deaths. The study says...

Daughter of Nazi Fugitive on House Arrest Over Looted Art

Argentine authorities are still seeking looted painting that popped up in a real estate listing

(Newser) - Argentine prosecutors on Tuesday announced that the daughter of a fugitive Nazi officer who stole an 18th-century Italian painting from a Jewish collector during World War II was placed under house arrest along with her husband, the AP reports. The new measures followed a series of police raids late Monday...

Actor: Notorious 'Lost' Jerry Lewis Film Is in 'Very Good Hands'

Hans Crispin says he made copy of Holocaust movie The Day the Clown Cried in 1980

(Newser) - Some big news for fans of the late Jerry Lewis: A Swedish actor has revealed that he secretly copied and kept a notorious lost film by Lewis for decades. Hans Crispin, now 66, admitted in interviews with Swedish media that he made a copy of the infamous 1972 film...

Schindler's Factory Now a 'Museum of Survivors'
Schindler's Factory
Gets a New Life
May 12, 2025 12:02 PM CDT

Schindler's Factory Gets a New Life

Czech industrial site transformed with exhibition spaces, cafe

(Newser) - A dilapidated industrial site in the Czech Republic where German businessman Oskar Schindler saved 1,200 Jews during the World War II is coming back to life. The site, a former textile factory in the town of Brnenec, about 100 miles east of Prague, was stolen by the Nazis from...

Trump Fires Biden Nominees to Holocaust Memorial Council

'To turn one of the worst atrocities in history into a wedge issue is dangerous,' Doug Emhoff says

(Newser) - President Trump has dismissed many of former President Joe Biden's nominees to the United States Holocaust Memorial Council, including Doug Emhoff, the husband of former Vice President Kamala Harris. The board oversees the US Holocaust Memorial Museum.
  • Emhoff, who is Jewish and who led the Biden administration's efforts
...

Oldest Known Holocaust Survivor Dies at 113
Oldest Known
Holocaust Survivor
Dies in NY
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Feb 28, 2025 7:11 AM CST

Oldest Known Holocaust Survivor Dies in NY

Rose Girone, 113, was 9 months pregnant when Nazis sent husband to concentration camp

(Newser) - Rose Girone, who would have been unlikely to see her 30th birthday if she hadn't escaped Nazi Germany just in time, has died at age 113. Girone, the oldest known Holocaust survivor, died this week at a nursing home on Long Island. Girone, born into a Jewish family in...

Anne Frank Annex Replica Moves the First to See It

Exhibit displaying the five rooms opens in New York City museum

(Newser) - A full-scale replica of the secret annex where Anne Frank wrote in her famous diary opened in New York City on Monday as the world marked International Holocaust Remembrance Day . The exhibit at the Center for Jewish History in Manhattan represents the first time the annex has been completely re-created...

Auschwitz Survivor Sees a Pattern Repeating

Warning about rise in antisemitism comes on the 80th anniversary of the death camp's liberation

(Newser) - The 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz by Soviet troops is being marked on Monday at the site of the former death camp, a ceremony that is widely being treated as the last major observance that any notable number of survivors will be able to attend. Among those who...

Pope Adds Warning on Antisemitism to Angelus Prayer

Holocaust must never be denied, Francis says before Remembrance Day

(Newser) - Pope Francis warned of the "scourge of antisemitism" in his Angelus prayer on Sunday, the eve of International Holocaust Remembrance Day, noting it marks 80 years since the liberation of the Auschwitz concentration camp. "The horror of the extermination of millions of Jewish people and others of different...

Holocaust Survivor, 103, Was Oldest Living Olympic Medalist

Agnes Keleti assumed a false identity before winning gold in gymnastics five times

(Newser) - Ágnes Keleti, a Holocaust survivor and the oldest living Olympic medal winner, has died. She was 103. Keleti died Thursday in Budapest, the Hungarian state news agency reported, after being hospitalized with pneumonia on Dec. 25. She won a total of 10 Olympic medals in gymnastics, including five golds,...

For Americans, a Chance to Enter Anne Frank's Hiding Place

A full-scale replica of her hidden annex is coming to New York

(Newser) - The annex where the young Jewish diarist Anne Frank hid from Nazi occupiers during World War II is heading to New York. A full-scale replica of the rooms that form the heart of the Anne Frank House museum on one of Amsterdam's historic canals is being built in the...

Some of What the Nazis Took Has Finally Been Returned

Jewelry that was confiscated in WWII was returned to Polish descendants

(Newser) - Stanislawa Wasilewska was 42 when she was captured by Nazi troops on Aug. 31, 1944, in Warsaw and sent to the women's concentration camp at Ravensbrueck, Germany. From there, she was sent to the Neuengamme forced labor camp, where she was given prisoner number 7257 and had her valuables...

Report Sheds Light on Nazi Camps on British Soil

Some Holocaust victims were killed on Alderney, but island wasn't a 'mini-Auschwitz,' panel found

(Newser) - The savage treatment of slave laborers at the Nazi concentration camps Norderney and Sylt was standard, historians say. What made them exceptional was that they were on British soil. A panel of historians has released its findings on the German occupation of Alderney, one of four Channel Islands seized by...

Netanyahu Marks Holocaust by Saying Israel Will Fight Alone

Hamas says ceasefire talks ended without either side budging

(Newser) - Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday rejected international pressure to halt the war in Gaza in a fiery speech marking Holocaust memorial day, declaring: "If Israel is forced to stand alone, Israel will stand alone." The message, delivered in a setting that typically avoids politics, was aimed at...

Israel, Brazil Go Further With the Genocide Throw-Down

Brazil's Lula says Gaza war reminiscent of 'when Hitler decided to kill the Jews'

(Newser) - Israel on Sunday condemned Brazil's president for comparing the war in Gaza to the Holocaust, accusing him of being antisemitic and trivializing the Nazi genocide of Jews during World War II. The outcry further strained relations between the countries, which have deteriorated since President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva...

Remembrances of Holocaust Include Warnings

Survivors, leaders caution about rising antisemitism

(Newser) - Survivors of Nazi death camps marked the 79th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau camp on Saturday in southern Poland, one of many observances in various nations on Holocaust Remembrance Day. As survivors told their stories, leaders gave speeches urging that the killings of 6 million European Jews between...

Musk Visits Auschwitz
Musk Visits Auschwitz
Jan 22, 2024 3:09 PM CST

Musk Visits Auschwitz

He describes himself as 'aspirationally Jewish'

(Newser) - Elon Musk, who has been accused of allowing antisemitic messages on his social media platform, X, visited the site of the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp on Monday, saying afterwards that the tragedy of the Holocaust "hits you much more in the heart when you see it in person." Musk...

Man Finds Out Not to Compare COVID Shots to Holocaust

German teacher is hit with $3.3K fine for 'trivialization' over COVID shots

(Newser) - A German man has been hit with a $3,300 fine after expressing some unconventional views on COVID-19 vaccines. Deutsche Welle reports that the unnamed vocational-college teacher, a 62-year-old from Berlin, heard his financial fate on Thursday from the Tiergarten Local Court, where a presiding judge slammed him for comparing...

Composer 'Nearly Fell Over' at What He Found at Auschwitz

Composer Leo Geyer has re-created incomplete scores of music played by orchestra at Nazi camp

(Newser) - Music played amid the highs and very deep lows of Auschwitz will be heard again for the first time in 80 years. Leo Geyer, a composer and conductor pursuing a doctorate in music and composition at Oxford University, has re-created musical scores from sheets held in the archive of the...

Global Rallies Sparked by War Include Holocaust Survivors

Paris gathering raises concern about rising antisemitism

(Newser) - Survivors of Nazi atrocities joined young Jewish activists outside the Paris Holocaust memorial on Saturday to sound the alarm about resurgent antisemitic hate speech, graffiti, and abuse linked to the Israel-Hamas war. Thousands of pro-Palestinian and left-wing activists rallied in Paris and around Britain on Saturday to call for a...

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