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Documents on the pontificate of Pope Pius XII are seen at the Vatican Secret Archives in Vatican City, Feb. 27, 2020. (Photo/JTA-Franco Origlia-Getty Images)
Posted inHistory

The Vatican will release WWII-era ‘Jewish files’ online, including unanswered pleas to the pope

by Andrew Lapin and JTA June 27, 2022June 28, 2022
Stewart Florsheim posing in front of his family's Stolpersteine.
(Photo/Courtesy Florsheim)
Posted inFirst Person

Why I said ‘yes’ to a memorial stone for my family in Germany

Stewart Florsheim by Stewart Florsheim June 17, 2022June 17, 2022
A shot of two of the children’s tattoos in the Netflix series “Stranger Things.”
Posted inTV & Film

‘Stranger Things’ fans deny their tattoos evoke the Holocaust — but it’s a growing trend.

Mira Fox by Mira Fox and Forward June 9, 2022June 9, 2022
At a rally for reparations at the African Burial Ground National Monument, July 23, 2021 in New York City. (Photo/Forward-Michael M. Santiago-Getty Images)
Posted inOpinion

What would happen if Black Californians received reparations? The Jewish experience provides some answers.

Rob Eshman by Rob Eshman and Forward June 9, 2022June 9, 2022
David Harbour in a scene from season four of "Stranger Things." (Screenshot from YouTube)
Posted inTV

Season 4 of Netflix’s ‘Stranger Things’ filmed in a Lithuanian prison where Nazis jailed Jews

Philissa Cramer by Philissa Cramer and JTA May 30, 2022May 27, 2022
Tunisian Jewish boxer Victor Perez (left) is featured on the new podcast "Holocaust Histories." (Photo/JTA-Jeff Dickson-AFP via Getty Images)
Posted inCulture

A new podcast chronicles the little-known stories of boxers from the Holocaust era

Jacob Gurvis by Jacob Gurvis and JTA May 23, 2022
Jon and Lissa Kaplan during the repair of the "Familant Torah," which will soon depart Palo Alto for Israel.
Posted inBay Area

‘Survivor Torah’ scroll will journey from Palo Alto to Israel this summer

Lillian Ilsley-Greene by Lillian Ilsley-Greene May 12, 2022May 25, 2022
From left: Lidia S., Olympiada D., Aleksandra B. and Aleksander S. are among 15 Ukrainians named "Righteous Among the Nations" who helped save Jews during the Holocaust who were still living in Ukraine when Russia invaded. (Photo/NY Jewish Week-Courtesy Jewish Foundation for the Righteous)
Posted inWorld

Inside the mission to aid Ukraine’s 15 remaining ‘Righteous Gentiles’

by Stewart Ain and Jewish Week May 11, 2022
Mikołaj Grynberg is the author of the short story collection "I'd Like to Say I'm Sorry, but There's No One to Say Sorry to." (Photo/Wikimedia-Jacek Proszyk)
Posted inBooks

Haunting story collection provides portrait of Jewish life in postwar Poland

Howard Freedman by Howard Freedman May 9, 2022July 12, 2023
A view of the Drobitsky Yar Holocaust memorial complex on the eastern outskirts of Kharkiv, Ukraine, after it was hit with Russian missiles, Mar. 27, 2022. (Photo/JTA-Sergey Bobok-AFP via Getty Images)
Posted inNews

In Israel, some Holocaust survivors from Ukraine feel ambivalent about their war-torn country of birth

Cnaan Liphshiz, Netherlands-based Europe Correspondent for JTA by Cnaan Liphshiz and JTA April 29, 2022

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