World war ii

Coming together again: What D-day teaches about Israel, Iran, and unity - opinion

The alliance that won World War II stands divided as Iran emerges as a modern challenge.

|ByBRENDA KATTEN
D-Day: marking 82 years.
A contingent remembering the Jewish Brigade, which fought in World War II, marches during Italy's 80th Liberation Day commemoration in Milan, Italy, on April 25, 2025. The next year, pro-Palestinian activists forced Jewish groups out of the Liberation Day procession.

The Jewish Brigade fought fascism in Italy. Now its flags spark protests - opinion

The Jewish Brigade has become a screen onto which other conflicts are projected: Zionism and anti-Zionism, antisemitism, Israel and Palestine, the meaning of antifascism, and more.

|ByGIANLUCA FANTONI/JTA
Gunmen stand guard at the funeral of Marwan Issa, a senior Hamas deputy military commander who was killed in an Israeli airstrike during the conflict between Israel and Hamas, amid a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas, in the central Gaza Strip, February 7, 2025.

For the first time in decades, Israel is imposing its will on Hamas - opinion

A weakened Hamas, expanding Israeli control, and regional backing are reshaping Gaza’s future.

|ByZAKI SHALOM
Siddur from 1934, found hidden under the floorboards of an attic in what used to be Bedzin's Jewish Ghetto, May 27, 2026.

Star of David band, siddur found under attic floorboards in building from Bedzin's Jewish Ghetto

“Someone had prepared a special place for [the siddur] in the attic,” the foundation explained. “Behind a separately partitioned space. Under a constructed hatch. Alone. Without other objects."

|ByMIRIAM SELA-EITAM

For Israelis under Iranian barrage, deadly nights alternate with days brimming with life

Ever resilient, Israelis are finding a new routine during a national emergency after war breaks out in the region.

JUNE 19, 2025ByDEBORAH DANAN/JTA
Patrons of a cafe whose windows were shattered by a nearby missile impact sit next to piles of broken glass, Tel Aviv, June 16, 2025.

Reaccepting the Torah: Looking back the first Shavuot after the fall of Nazi Germany

For many Holocaust survivors, May 18, 1945 was the first Shavuot they were able to celebrate after years of war.

JUNE 2, 2025ByYAEL HALFON
AMERICAN CHAPLAIN Rabbi Herschel Schacter conducts religious services at the liberated Buchenwald concentration camp in 1945

'Dangerous distortion,' Auschwitz Museum calls out AI-generated images of Holocaust victims

The museum claims that the Facebook page 90's History has been producing AI images of Auschwitz victims, using "real content," from its website.

JUNE 1, 2025ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Screenshot of an image published by the Facebook page 90's History (left), which the Auschwitz Museum claims has been AI-generated using information and photographs (right) from its website.

Operation Benjamin: Finding lost Jewish-American war heroes and honoring their memory

An organization tracks down the Jewish heroes of World Wars I and II, and honors them with the symbol of their faith, even more than a century after they made the ultimate sacrifice.

MAY 31, 2025ByDANIELLE GREYMAN-KENNARD
OPERATION BENJAMIN’S co-founder and chief historian, Shalom Lamm, estimates that between 600 and 900 American Jewish soldiers from both World Wars are mistakenly buried under crosses. Here, late US serviceman Howard Feldman receives a Jewish headstone.

Review: Meet the woman who saved countless art masterpieces from the Nazis

Valland is the real-life heroine of “The Art Spy,” a curator at Jeu de Paume Museum in Paris in the 1940s.

MAY 29, 2025ByCHRIS HEWITT/TNS
The other fresh element of “Art Spy” is that Young juxtaposes Rose’s story with that of wealthy-heir-turned-Allied-soldier Alexandre Rosenberg, whose Jewish family fled Paris and had their mammoth art collection ripped from the walls of their home.

French Jewish WWII spy Marthe Cohn dies at 105

During her time as a spy, she was able to provide the French military with information on German positions, contributing to several notable victories.

MAY 24, 2025ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Marthe Cohn

Argentina's top court finds 80 boxes of Nazi materials in its basement

The Argentinian officials found postcards, photographs, notebooks, and propaganda material from the Nazi regime.

MAY 12, 2025ByREUTERS
Employees handle a box with Nazi-related material that was among several boxes originally confiscated by local authorities when they were shipped to Argentina in 1941, after the boxes were recently discovered by chance in the archives of the Supreme Court of Argentina, in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Victory over Nazism and the rise of a Jewish homeland: a personal reflection – opinion

80 years after VE day, a survivor of the Holocaust reflects on antisemtism, the Nazi regime, and the modern State of Israel.

MAY 10, 2025ByGITA KOIFMAN
Starving Holocaust survivors. Bones are brittle and muscles are atrophied

Germany's new challenges 80 years after VE day: AfD, antisemitism, and new politics

EUROPE AFFAIRS: The political climate in Germany is shifting as the AfD rises in power, raising concerns about the future of Holocaust memory and the country’s commitment to Shoah remembrance.

MAY 10, 2025ByKONSTANTIN NOWOTNY
‘YOU CAN’T ban 10 million AfD voters.’ Amid the tensions in Germany over the rise of the far right, new German Chancellor Friedrich Merz stands at the Neue Wache Memorial for Victims of War and Tyranny during commemorations to mark the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II.

'Israel knows what’s best for national security,’ ambassador to Germany tells 'Post'

DIPLOMATIC AFFAIRS: Ambassador to Germany Ron Prosor speaks to The Jerusalem Post on 60 years of diplomatic relations between the countries.

MAY 10, 2025ByELDAD BECK
‘[ISRAELI-GERMAN] relations are not to be taken for granted.’ Ambassador to Germany Ron Prosor delivers a speech during a commemoration ceremony at the Bergen-Belsen Memorial in Lohheide, northern Germany, in April, to mark the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the concentration camp.