Nazi war criminals

Canadian federal court rules to release redacted sections of 1986 Nazi resettlement report

The ruling follows longstanding efforts of B’nai Brith Canada to make the entire document public.

A man looks at a Nazi flag as he visits the exhibition "Design of the Third Reich" at the Design Museum Den Bosch in 's-Hertogenbosch; illustrative.
An NYPD vehicle is seen outside of the Congregation Temple Emanu-El in New York City in 2025.

Why NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s Tisha B’Av wishes are so ironic – opinion

Iris Haim, the mother of Yotam Haim, who was shot by IDF troops after escaping from captivity in Gaza.

In an extraordinary choice, Iris Haim refused to let Hamas claim another victim - opinion

Shira Haas in the Netflix series, 'Bodies.'

Shira Haas to star in Netflix remake of ‘The Boys from Brazil’


After outcry, Bulgaria bars neo-Nazis from marching in tribute to Nazi collaborationist leader

The Lukov March had been held by the far-right Bulgarian National Union-New Democracy Party almost every year since 2003.

 Far-right groups and nationalists carry torches and march to commemorate the Nazi-era Bulgarian General Hristo Lukov in Sofia, Bulgaria, Feb. 12, 2022.

Last Nuremberg prosecutor alive expected to receive Congressional Gold Medal

The medal, presented as part of the Fiscal Year 2023 spending package, would award the US Army veteran the prestigious honor.

 Benjamin Ferencz - Chief Prosecutor in 1947 Einsatzgruppen Trial - In Courtroom 600 Where Nuremberg Trials Were Held.

The Secretary of Evil: 97-year-old Nazi convicted for role in 10,500 murders

In what may be the last-ever Nazi trial, Irmgard Furchner has been found guilty for crimes committed at Stutthof Concentration Camp.

Irmgard Furchner, a 97-year-old former secretary to the SS commander of the Stutthof concentration camp, is pictured at the beginning of her trial in a courtroom, in Itzehoe, Germany, October 19, 2021.

'Saving Freud': How the Jewish psychoanalyst escaped the Nazis - review

In Saving Freud, Andrew Nagorski reviews Freud’s life and provides biographical sketches of the eclectic group of people who helped rescue him as the Gestapo was closing in.

 THIS 1929 photo of Sigmund Freud was released by the US Library of Congress in 1998 with the opening of a new related exhibit.

97-year-old Nazi secretary on trial speaks out for first time

Irmgard Furchner, who played a crucial role in the death of over 11,000 people, has sat in silence since her trial began in October 2021.

 Irmgard Furchner, a 96-year-old former secretary to the SS commander of the Stutthof concentration camp, arrives in a wheelchair as her lawyers Niklas Weber and Wolf Molkentin look on at the beginning of her trial in a courtroom, in Itzehoe, Germany, October 19, 2021.

NY museums scramble to acknowledge Nazi-looted art

The MoMA’s move comes as a new bill mandates that museums will be required to have signage acknowledging that stolen works were Nazi-looted.

 THE MAIN entrance of the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA).

101-year-old Nazi SS concentration camp guard sentenced to prison

Due to the criminal's old age, however, he is unlikely to be imprisoned.

 A 101-year-old former security guard of the Sachsenhausen concentration camp appears in the courtroom before his trial verdict at the Landgericht Neuruppin court, in Brandenburg, Germany June 28, 2022.

US Attorney General appoints Nazi hunter to investigate war crimes in Ukraine

Rosenbaum will work with other prosecutors from the Human Rights and Special Prosecutions Section to investigate alleged human rights violations by Russian forces in Ukraine.

Eli Rosenbaum (left) appearing on TV discussion program "After Dark" on July 10, 1987 ("Klaus Barbie").

Has Israeli TV lost all interest in Nazi-hunting?

From my personal experience of directing the Jerusalem office of the Simon Wiesenthal, the toughest “nut to crack,” has always been Israeli television.

 Visitors seen standing next to a display of swastika banners at the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial museum in Jerusalem on April 26, 2022, ahead of Israeli Holocaust Remembrance Day.

Germany tries two Nazis for wartime crimes

Despite the decades that have passed since the crimes were committed, it is still possible to hold Nazi perpetrators accountable for their crimes.

'Death Gate' at Stutthof Concentration Camp