“In today’s atmosphere, it could happen again”

On the 87th anniversary of Kristallnacht, Holocaust survivors who lived through the 1938 pogrom as children issued a powerful warning about the dramatic rise in global antisemitism, saying the world today is no safer for Jews than 87 years ago. Read more

From Kristallnacht to Kindertransport: Sydney commemoration unites generations of hope

Last night, close to 800 people gathered in Sydney for the NSW Jewish Board of Deputies’ annual Kristallnacht commemoration, an evening that powerfully linked a notorious moment of the Nazi pogrom with the subsequent act of rescue. The event, themed “From Kristallnacht to Kindertransport”, was a moving reflection on memory, compassion, and resilience.

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Yad Vashem has recovered the names of 5 million Jews murdered in the Holocaust

Yad Vashem in Jerusalem has recovered the names of five million Jews of the six million murdered in the Holocaust. Read more

Historic first: Holocaust included in draft NZ Year 10 curriculum

For the first time in New Zealand history, the Holocaust is explicitly included in the draft Year 10 Social Sciences curriculum, marking a major step forward in Holocaust education across New Zealand. Read more

Geraldine Museum’s WWII display rekindles debate over portrayal of Nazis

A Canterbury military museum is under scrutiny after unveiling a World War II display featuring Nazi symbols and Waffen-SS uniforms, sparking renewed debate about how New Zealand institutions should present the history of Nazism. Read more

Anti-Israel activists target South African Holocaust centres

Anti-Israel activists have targeted Holocaust and genocide centres in Johannesburg, Durban and Cape Town, holding protests outside the institutions and sending threatening letters in what Jewish community leaders are calling “a campaign of intimidation.” Read more

Women, Pogroms, Love

A Sydney exhibition by award-winning artist Wendy Lessick Bookatz. Read more

Ervin Vidor remembered as builder of cities, family and faith

Ervin Hugo Vidor AM, a Holocaust survivor who arrived in Australia as a teenage refugee and went on to co-found one of the nation’s leading property and hotel businesses, has died in Sydney on 11 September aged 92.

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A preview of the future of Sydney Jewish Museum

An architectural marvel is taking shape in Darlinghurst, as the Sydney Jewish Museum undergoes a monumental transformation.

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NZ Holocaust Centre condemns Tamihere’s “worse than Nazi Germany” remark

The Holocaust Centre of New Zealand has condemned Te Pāti Māori president John Tamihere for comparing the New Zealand Government to Nazi Germany, calling his words “harmful at worst” and a dangerous trivialisation of history. Read more

Honouring Phil Lamason: a New Zealand memorial with a Jewish resonance

The small New Zealand town of Dannevirke is preparing to honour one of its most remarkable sons, Squadron Leader Phil Lamason, whose forgotten wartime heroism saved the lives of 167 Allied airmen in 1944. Read more

Austrian volunteers at the Melbourne Holocaust Museum

Four young non-Jewish Austrian men have recently completed their volunteer assignments at the Melbourne Holocaust Museum, having worked there for the past ten months. Read more

From Australia’s Jewish past

Max Zilberman – a Buchenwald Boy and grateful to The Joint

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Honouring those who rescued fellow Jews in the Holocaust

A symbolic cornerstone was laid on Wednesday for the Jewish Rescuers Grove, a first-of-its-kind memorial honouring Jews who risked everything to save fellow Jews during the Holocaust. Read more

Nazi recording confirms Hitler ordered Holocaust

Approximately 800 digital recordings and transcripts of Nazi criminals from after World War II were revealed on Saturday, including dramatic and disturbing testimonies that shed light on Nazi methods during the war and Holocaust and on their escape routes. Read more

Nazi crime cases near end as few perpetrators remain

German war crimes investigators are reaching “the final stages of Nazi persecution” with the youngest potential perpetrators now 97 years old. Read more

Australian Human Rights Commission marks Auschwitz liberation day

The President of the Australian Human Rights Commission Hugh de Kretser, Race Discrimination Commissioner Giridharan Sivaraman and Human Rights Commissioner Lorraine Finlay have honoured the memory of the six million Jewish men, women, and children, as well as millions of others, who were systematically murdered during the Holocaust. Read more

German court upholds conviction of former Nazi camp secretary

A German court on Tuesday rejected an appeal by Irmgard Furchner, 99, who was convicted in 2022 for complicity in the murder of over 10,000 people during the Holocaust. Read more

Honouring Raoul Wallenberg: A hero’s legacy

Not many in Sydney’s Jewish community would know that on a small traffic island on the corner of Queen St and Edgecliff Road in Woollahra there is a memorial dedicated to Swedish Holocaust hero Raoul Wallenberg, who during 1944 and 1945 saved thousands of Jewish lives in Hungary. Read more

New centre at Yad Vashem showcases millions of Holocaust artifacts

Yad Vashem, the World Holocaust Remembrance Centre in Jerusalem, has inaugurated a new home for the world’s largest collection of Shoah-related materials. Read more

More funds for Holocaust survivors

The Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany (Claims Conference) has announced an A$170 million increase in funding for social welfare services, involving acute assistance for Holocaust survivors for each of the next two years. Read more

Who is your Holocaust hero?

On this year’s Holocaust Martyrs’ and Heroes’ Remembrance Day, Yad Vashem launched its “Who Is Your Holocaust Hero?” campaign. Read more

Jonathan Glazer gets another serve

Australian Association of Jewish Holocaust Survivors & Descendants could not let Jonathan Glazer’s prepared Oscar speech pass by without its comment. Read more

International Holocaust Remembrance Day 

A message from the Leader of the Opposition, Peter Dutton. Read more

Red Cross finds little sympathy among Israelis amid accusations of ineptitude, bias

“Humanitarianism,” “compassion,” “neutrality”—these are the words the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) would like linked to its name. Read more

Holocaust, Hollywood, homeless: The incredible life – and bizarre death – of an Aussie rolling stone

Burying a complete stranger – let alone a child survivor of the Holocaust – was not on the itinerary for a group of Jewish Sydneysiders holidaying this week on the mid-north coast of New South Wales. Read more

Indigenous Friends of Israel slams The Greens

Indigenous Friends of Israel founders Norman and Barbara Miller condemn the ignorance, racism, and antisemitism of the Greens MPs in the Australian Senate in recent weeks and of the Greens’ mayoral candidate for Brisbane, Jonathan Sriranganathan. Read more

Neighbours ‘stunned’ after ex-SS soldier found living in sleepy English suburb

A British newspaper has revealed the hidden past of a 97-year-old gardening enthusiast living in a quiet Nottingham suburb, once a member of Hitler’s notorious Waffen SS Galizien. Read more

A letter from survivors

We, the undersigned Holocaust survivors, are the last witnesses to the unspeakable horrors of the Nazi regime. Read more

Letter shows Pope Pius XII likely knew of Nazi crimes

Newly discovered correspondence suggests that World War II-era Pope Pius XII had detailed information from a trusted German Jesuit that up to 6,000 Jews and Poles were being gassed each day in German-occupied Poland. Read more

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