Holocaust denial

Holocaust memory compels us to reject false genocide claims and face Gaza’s agony - opinion

Whatever position one takes on the issue, the nature of Holocaust memory is in crisis.

|ByMENACHEM Z. ROSENSAFT/JTA, JAMES MCAULEY/JTA
A Jew is arrested by German soldiers in April 1943 after the uprising of the Warsaw ghetto during WW2. When the Nazis set up the ghetto in 1940, it held more than 300 000 Jews. Two years later most of them has either died from starvation or disease or been carted off to an extermination camp.
UN special rapporteur Francesca Albanese has become one of the most controversial figures in the UN human rights system, drawing condemnation over her statements on Israel and the Gaza War.

Albanese apologizes for misinterpreting Nazi camp term away from original meaning of Jews

In her original statement, she said, “In fact, when they were being taken to the gas chambers, there are some accounts of life in the concentration camps saying that Jews were called ‘the Muslims.’” 

|BySAM HALPERN, JONAH DAVIDOV
Weapons and extremist materials uncovered by Italian law enforcement during an investigation into online neo-Nazi and white supremacist groups.

Italy charges three adults, 14 minors with neo-Nazi, white supremacist activity-linked offenses

In the online groups and chatrooms, the suspects praised Adolf Hitler and shared instructions for making and detonating homemade explosives designed to maximize lethal impact.

|ByGOLDIE KATZ
Patriots for Europe members meet in Strasbourg, September 16, 2026.

Patriots for Europe group adopts IHRA principles combating antisemitism, express support for Israel

During the conference, participants expressed support for Israel and settlement in Judea and Samaria, while opposing sanctions and boycotts imposed on them.

|ByANNA BARSKY

Suspect arrested for Holocaust denial projection on Anne Frank House

The suspect had travelled to Poland shortly after the projection and extradition attempts are now being made.

MAY 1, 2023ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
ANNE FRANK’S diary is on display at the Anne Frank House in Amsterdam. Anne told a friend that the moment she learned she no longer had a family she interpreted this as the end of the world.

Letters to the Editor April 25, 2023: Climate threats

Readers of The Jerusalem Post have their say.

APRIL 24, 2023ByLETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Letters

ADL Holocaust denial report rates all social media platforms poorly

The report came after the Anti-Defamation League reviewed several major outlet platforms and Holocaust denial-related comments on their content.

APRIL 10, 2023ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
A WOMAN stands next to walls etched with the names of Holocaust victims, during a funeral for the remains of victims in the Jewish cemetery in Budapest, 2016

David Strathairn plays historic Holocaust witness Jan Karski in PBS's 'Remember This'

“Remember This: The Lesson of Jan Karski” airs on PBS as part of the broadcaster’s “Great Performances” series.

MARCH 14, 2023ByLINDA BUCHWALD/JTA
JAN KARSKI gestures doing a Reuters TV interview in 1997 at the Wannsee villa in Berlin, where in 1942, Hitler's deputies plotted the Final Solution to murder Europe's Jews.

Wikipedia’s ‘Supreme Court’ tackles alleged conspiracy to distort articles on Holocaust

A Polish group has taken to Wikipedia to distort Holocaust history – all while finding a way to evade editors on the website.

MARCH 1, 2023ByASAF ELIA-SHALEV/JTA
Wikipedia blackout 150

Message projected onto Anne Frank House suggests diary was a forgery

Dutch PM Mark Rutte condemned the message saying that there is no room for antisemitism.

FEBRUARY 10, 2023ByREUTERS
Anne Frank in 1940, while at 6. Montessorischool, Niersstraat 41-43, Amsterdam

Iran runs series on state TV featuring Holocaust deniers, antisemites

British Holocaust denier Nicholas Kollerstrom told the Iranian regime outlet it is time to put the "nightmare hallucination narrative" of the Holocaust "to bed."

FEBRUARY 4, 2023ByBENJAMIN WEINTHAL
A man holds up a poster of the late Iranian Major-General Qassem Soleimani next to a burning Israeli flag as Iranians attend a rally marking the annual Quds Day, or Jerusalem Day, on the last Friday of the holy month of Ramadan in Tehran, Iran April 29, 2022

Letters to the Editor February 1, 2023: Home that I love

Readers of The Jerusalem Post have their say.

JANUARY 31, 2023ByLETTERS TO THE EDITOR
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Before and after Auschwitz: the legacy left behind - opinion

78 years after the liberation of Auschwitz, survivors still measure time as "before and after the camps."

JANUARY 29, 2023ByALEX STERNBERG
THE GATE to Auschwitz, photographed in January 2021, 76 years after the camp’s liberation: There are still countless Jews who say about the Shoah, ‘If this could happen, how can anyone still believe in God?’

The Man in the Basement: A thriller on Holocaust denial trolls - review

The Man in the Basement opens on January 27 in New York to mark International Holocaust Remembrance Day and will soon be shown around the US (and eventually, one would hope, in Israel)

JANUARY 28, 2023ByHANNAH BROWN
A SCENE FROM ‘The Man in the Basement.’