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Holocaust

Photos of Holocaust survivors
Posted inAnalysis

How Germany’s Holocaust memory culture kicked off a democratic crisis

by Jake Wasserman October 30, 2025October 30, 2025
Train tracks lead to main gate of Auschwitz II-Birkenau in 1945
Posted inLocal Voice

When suffering becomes a competition, everyone loses

Rebecca Golbert by Rebecca L. Golbert September 10, 2025September 11, 2025
Rachel Weisz
Posted inFilm

‘Never Again Is Now’ series in San Jose features Ken Burns’ doc and ‘Denial’

by Sue Fishkoff August 21, 2025August 23, 2025
Posted inBooks

From fantasy to chess to Berkeley’s revolution: 6 reads by local authors

by Sue Fishkoff July 25, 2025July 28, 2025
Jesse Eisenberg speaks at the San Francisco Jewish Community Center, May 27, 2025. (Jaeger Photography)
Posted inFilm

In S.F., Jesse Eisenberg recounts the very real pain behind ‘A Real Pain’

Niva Ashkenazi (Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Niva Ashkenazi May 29, 2025May 30, 2025
Pictures of banners  supporting Kanye West's comments about Jews went viral after members of the Goyim Defense League hate group dropped them from an overpass in Los Angeles, Oct. 22, 2022. (Screenshot from Twitter)
Posted inLocal Voice

Kanye West’s ‘Heil Hitler’ song turns hate into a hook

Morgan Blum Schneider, the director of the JFCS Holocaust Center, a program of Jewish Family
and Children’s Services. (Courtesy) by Morgan Blum Schneider May 14, 2025May 14, 2025
Eight Holocaust survivors, sitting in the front row of the audience at the Yom HaShoah event on April 23, 2025, watch a short film where Holocaust survivors, liberators and their descendants speak about their experiences. (Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff)
Posted inBay Area

Hundreds pay respects as local Holocaust survivors are honored on Yom HaShoah

Niva Ashkenazi (Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Niva Ashkenazi April 24, 2025April 25, 2025
Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem tours CECOT, the draconian El Salvadoran prison, with El Salvador Minister of Justice and Public Security Gustavo Villatoro, March 26, 2025. (DHS/Tia Dufour)
Posted inOpinion

The Yom HaShoah lesson we desperately need to remember under Trump

Tamar Manasseh by Tamar Manasseh April 23, 2025April 23, 2025
Holocaust survivors (from left) Guenter Pappenheim, Eva Fahidi-Pusztai and Heinrich Rotmensch sit in wheelchairs at a ceremony at the Buchenwald concentration camp on Jan. 27, 2020, the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz. All three died before the 80th anniversary. (Jens Schlueter/AFP via Getty Images)
Posted inWorld

Half of Holocaust survivors alive today will be dead in 6 years, new analysis finds

by Grace Gilson April 22, 2025April 22, 2025
Three men, one very young and two very old, light candles in front of a packed auditorium
Posted inHolidays

Bay Area events for Yom HaShoah and Israel Memorial Day

by J. Staff April 14, 2025April 21, 2025

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