Time for a new treaty to deal with crimes against humanity? Here’s what you need to know
Fatal attractions are blind and delusional and thus destructive. The consequences may be a backlash against Biden, the US losing its little moral authority is has, an end to any stability in the Middle East and, worst, a wider war
South African-born Jewish artist Candice Breitz has had her exhibition in a German museum scrapped
Our grief for people we have not personally known is informed by the narratives and stories we are exposed to – but these stories are not equally told
Raping women and beheading children is not a struggle for human rights or freedom, it is a massacre
One cannot choose one’s race or nationality, but one can choose one’s political views and live by those choices
The fact that mass killings should still take place in our modern world shows that we need to do more to oppose it
As countries in the Global North push to escalate the war in Ukraine, the Global South has overwhelmingly pushed for a perspective of dialogue and peace
Germany demonstrated a poor response to historical redress when it offered Namibia €1.1-billion as a ‘gesture of reconciliation’
An installation and a documentary about the notorious residential school system amplify calls to define such deaths worldwide as genocide
Groups slam UCT professor’s Hitler comment without an understanding of the lecture’s purpose
On 27 January, the world remembers the victims of the Holocaust, but it is also worth remembering the victims of Germany’s other, earlier genocide in Namibia. A rare book, commissioned by Britain in the early 1900s, stands as a record of the crimes against the Herero and the Nama
Attempts to discredit election outcomes can be dangerous and the United States would do well to heed the warnings from history
Populist politicians increasingly blame migrants for a range of problems. At home, the government, police and even trade unionists are doing the same.
The amendment is designed to remove fines or criminal penalties for anyone found guilty of ascribing Nazi crimes to the Polish state
For decades after the war, the German government showed little haste to track down many of those involved in the organised mass murder
The law sets fines or a maximum three-year jail term for anyone who describes Nazi German death camps like Auschwitz-Birkenau as being Polish
“I wanted to show the hypocrisy and double standard that black suffering is totally disregarded and in fact it’s encouraged,” he told The Daily Vox.
During the first week of May, the Jewish communities of seven South African cities will come together to mark Yom Hashoah – Holocaust Remembrance Day.
Chris Zithulele Mann says that to remove the statue is to ignore what lurks within all of us, making it more difficult to identify our own prejudices.
‘Final Solution’ balances stories of Nazi Germany and the extermination of Europe’s Jews and reveals the treatment meted out to them post-World War II
Readers write in about contraceptives, Holocaust education and the danger of essentialising.
Few things would have pleased Verwoerd more than the idea that racism and race essentialism are still alive and well.
Former Nazi officer dubbed the "bookkeeper of Auschwitz" went on trial in Germany, with almost 70 Holocaust survivors relatives at the court.
The storm over US President Barack Obama’s label "Polish camp" for a Nazi German Holocaust site is an ideal moment to halt lies about the Holocaust.
In SA’s Jewish community there is no one to explain to us that we can no longer use past victimhood to justify Israel’s actions, writes Kevin Bloom.
Millions of Israelis stood silently and all road traffic stopped as sirens wailed for two minutes to remember the Jews killed during the Holocaust.
A Turkish shampoo commercial featuring Adolf Hitler has drawn outrage from Jewish groups worldwide and calls for it to be withdrawn immediately.
An uncompromising speech in the US by Israel’s prime minister has persuaded the public back home that war with Iran is possible, perhaps even likely.
A new book remembers 15 horrendous events that have been conveniently swept under the carpet.
Germany’s Jewish community has expressed shock after ultra-Orthodox protesters in Israel donned Holocaust symbols, including yellow stars.
Having escaped the Holocaust as boys, two 80-year-old Jewish doctors have returned to Vienna to swim in the European Maccabi Games.