Holocaust
Eddy Boas outside the The Hague apartment he and his family were forced out from when he was three.
August 6, 2026, 12:22 pm
Eddy’s emotional return
At 86, Holocaust survivor Eddy Boas returned to The Hague, not as a man forgotten by the city of his birth, but as its guest of honour. It was a trip laden with irony, emotion and unexpected hope, six decades after the same city council turned his family away.
By Shane Desiatnik
Richard Rozen featured in the film The Hunt for the Last Nazis, now streaming on SBS on Demand. Photo: screenshot
July 9, 2026, 4:25 pm
Richard Rozen dies
Holocaust survivor, hid with the partisans, and challenged Australia to deport war criminals
By Bruce Hill
Franceska Mann. Photo: Van-Dyck Photographic Studio/Public Domain
June 19, 2026, 11:00 am
The ballerina who fought back at Auschwitz
Franceska Mann's act has since been recognised as one of the most remarkable individual acts of resistance during the Holocaust.
By AJN STAFF
June 19, 2026, 9:58 am
The book Sándor never got to write
Farkas Pungur has always felt a responsibility to share the story of Sándor Schwarcz and how he survived five concentration camps and a death march. His latest book is the result.
By AJN STAFF
Jonathan Kanat's parents, Miriam and Aaron. Photo: supplied
June 15, 2026, 1:18 pm
Giving his mother’s story a voice
Melbourne writer Jonathan Kanat traces his mother's Holocaust survival story, and the quiet acts of courage that made her life, and his, possible.
By Jessica Abelsohn
Photo: supplied
June 12, 2026, 10:18 am
The artist thread of family memory
Nice 'n Easy: a woven history showcases Naomi Ullmann's artworks, personal objects from her parents and grandparents & works from the University of Tasmania's Tyler Collection of Romanian art.
By AJN STAFF
Erika Mann, Ingeborg Kalnoky and Marie-Claude Vaillant-Couturier.
June 12, 2026, 9:15 am
Spotlighting the women of the Nuremberg trials
When historian and author Natalie Livingstone noticed that women were missing from the records of the Nuremberg Trials, she decided to do something about it.
By Jessica Abelsohn
The Janowska Orchestra
May 20, 2026, 1:17 pm
Songbook compiled in Nazi camps finds new life
'Some of these songs were almost lost to history and now they can be heard again'
By AJN STAFF
May 7, 2026, 1:50 pm
A painful and almost fatal journey
We Should Have Talked: The biography of my father should be compulsory reading for the senior classes in Australian schools.
By Samuel Menahem
David Harris, then CEO of the American Jewish Committee, speaking at the AJC Global Forum in Jerusalem in 2018.
May 7, 2026, 11:48 am
How can we best counter antisemitism?
Leading Jewish advocate David Harris to discusses his book Antisemitism: What Everyone Needs to Know.
By Sharyn Kolieb
The Australian delegation at March of the Living 2026. Photo: Facebook
April 23, 2026, 11:40 am
Bondi survivors march with Holocaust survivors
The annual march on Yom Hashoah is from Auschwitz to Birkenau, where Jews were murdered in gas chambers.
By Sharyn Kolieb and Times of Israel
Erica Frydenberg (second from left) with her family outside the Dohanyi Street Synagogue in Hungary.
April 22, 2026, 2:01 pm
Heroism in Hungary during the Holocaust
Erica Frydenberg has penned a powerful family story as she uncovered the truth about the unsung heroes of Budapest.
By Sharyn Kolieb
Memorial Hall, Yad Vashem, Jerusalem. Photo: Rafael Ben Ari/Dreamstime.com
April 10, 2026, 8:00 am
Genocide and the Holocaust – the reality
As the terms ‘genocide’ and ‘Holocaust’ are now so widely misused, I searched for primary sources to clarify their origins and real meaning.
By Yossi Aaron
Anton Berezin as Eddie Jaku. Photo: supplied
April 7, 2026, 3:49 pm
A legacy in the spotlight
A powerful new stage adaptation of Eddie Jaku’s memoir is set to premiere at the Sydney Opera House, bringing his story of survival and hope to life.
By Jessica Abelsohn
March 31, 2026, 9:13 am
A child’s witness to the shadow of war
A Warsaw-born survivor who fled the Nazis as a toddler has published her memoir at nearly 90. Raya Goldtwig believes it has never been more urgent to share her story.
By AJN STAFF
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