Second World War

Grandson of Jewish art collector fights to reclaim Van Gogh lost during Nazi era

The painting comes from Van Gogh’s Saint-Rémy period, one of his most sought-after, and is likely worth tens of millions

By Daniel Ben-David

2 min read

Vincent Van Gogh's Hôpital Saint-Paul à Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, 1889 (Credit: Musée d’Orsay)

Valerie Fuhrmann in 1938. She escaped from Czecheslovakia on March 15 1939 - the day Nazi Germany invaded the country.

Second World War

The coincidences that saved my grandmother from the Nazis

By Michael Fuhrmann

4 min read

9th April 1945. The US 9th army liberating Stalag 326, another German PoW camp where Soviet troops were held. At this camp, 30,000 Soviet prisoners died during the war. (Getty Images)

Nazis

Prison guard at Nazi PoW camp under investigation for ‘murder’

By Rob Hyde

2 min read

French President Emmanuel Macron pays his respects at the cenotaphs of the late historian and resistance fighter Marc Bloch and his wife, Simonne Bloch, during their Panthéon induction ceremony in Paris on June 23, 2026 (Getty Images)

France

France honours Jewish resistance fighter executed by the Gestapo with Panthéon interment

By Andrew Bernard

2 min read

A siddur found inside the Ghetto Fighters’ House in Będzin (Credit: Facebook/Fundacja Brama Cukermana)

Poland

Star of David armband and 1930s siddur found hidden in former Ghetto building

By Daniel Ben-David

2 min read

Left to right: Air Commodore Craig Watson, Mike Bluestone, Martha Abraham, Stan Kaye (photo: Natasha Goodman)

AJEX

AJEX presents surprise set of medals to late war veteran’s wife on her 101st birthday

By Ben Conway

2 min read

Obituary

Belsen liberator Stanley Fisher dies aged 101

By Ben Rosen

1 min read

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Tucker Carlson calls pro-Hitler Oswald Mosley one of Britain’s ‘great war heroes’

Mosley’s only crime, Carlson claimed, was being the leader of the ‘opposition party’ to Churchill

By Daniel Ben-David

3 min read

March 20, 2026 17:00

Left: Oswald Mosley, leader of the British Union of Fascists, and left: Tucker Carlson (Credit: Fox Photos/Hulton Archive/Getty Images and YouTube)

US soldier credited with saving 200 Jews in Second World War to receive posthumous military honour

‘We are all Jews here,’ said Roddie Edmonds, defying a Nazi order to identify all the Jewish troops in a POW camp

By Jamie Shapiro

2 min read

February 23, 2026 16:20

Sergeant Roddie Edmonds saved 200 Jews in the second world war (Image: Yad Vashem)

Swiss bank ‘holds 900 undisclosed Nazi accounts’

The allegation emerged during a US probe into the Swiss bank’s relationship with the Third Reich

By Daniel Ben-David

1 min read

February 5, 2026 18:24

The Senate Judiciary Committee, chaired by US Senator Chuck Grassley (C), Republican from Iowa, holds a hearing regarding Nazis and Swiss Banks, on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, February 3, 2026 (Credit: ROBERTO SCHMIDT / AFP via Getty Images)

The Jewish woman selected by Goebbels as the ‘perfect Aryan baby’

Hessy Levinsons Taft, whose photograph appeared without her parents’ knowledge in a Nazi propaganda magazine, has died aged 91

By Alma Green

1 min read

January 12, 2026 12:42

A six-month-old Hessy Levinsons Taft, dubbed the 'perfect Aryan baby', on the cover of a Nazi propaganda magazine in 1935 (Yad Vashem)

Obituary: Ruth Bourne

Bletchley Park Wren who operated Alan Turing’s Bombe machines which helped shorten the war by four years

By Martin Sugarman

4 min read

December 22, 2025 14:44

Nazi camp doctor dubbed ‘Angel of Death’ owned medical lab while living openly in Argentina, new documents reveal

An Argentine judge even denied a West German extradition request for Josef Mengele on the grounds that the war criminal could face ‘political persecution’

By Jacob Jaffa

1 min read

December 1, 2025 14:20

(L-R) Josef Mengele circa 1940, before his involvement in the death camps, and Mengele photographed again around 1950, just after fleeing to Argentina (Getty Images)

By Nigel Biggar

Archbishop of York’s ‘genocidal acts’ charge against Israel is neither wise nor appropriate

Given the Church’s history of antisemitism, the second-most senior Anglican bishop should have thought again before using an accusation that has the stink of prejudice

4 min read

November 21, 2025 11:02

The Archbishop of York, Stephen Cottrell (Image: Getty)

Thousands attend annual AJEX parade to honour the Jews who served in the World Wars

The Jewish community came together on Sunday to remember their fallen soldiers and to show resilience

By Jamie Shapiro

4 min read

November 16, 2025 19:03

The annual AJEX remembrance day was held on November 16 (Image: Justin Grainge)

Karlie Kloss and Joshua Kushner name baby daughter after her Shoah survivor paternal great-grandmother Reichel

In keeping with Ashkenazi tradition, the couple have named their newborn in memory of a beloved relative who has passed away

By Katie Grant

1 min read

October 1, 2025 12:54

Joshua Kushner and Karlie Kloss (Photo: Getty)

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Second World War

Grandson of Jewish art collector fights to reclaim Van Gogh lost during Nazi era

The coincidences that saved my grandmother from the Nazis

Prison guard at Nazi PoW camp under investigation for ‘murder’

France honours Jewish resistance fighter executed by the Gestapo with Panthéon interment

Star of David armband and 1930s siddur found hidden in former Ghetto building

AJEX presents surprise set of medals to late war veteran’s wife on her 101st birthday

Belsen liberator Stanley Fisher dies aged 101

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