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Mordechai and Sheindle Sova were shot in 1941 on a central street of Kyiv, Ukraine and buried in a ditch after they ignored the order to gather to be murdered at Babyn Yar. (Courtesy of Igor Kulakov and the Babyn Yar Holocaust Memorial Center.)

Nearly 80 years after the Babyn Yar massacre, Ukrainian researchers lift victims out of anonymity

A newly established team of historians is digging through disintegrating archives to unearth details about the tens of thousands murdered in a ravine near Kyiv in 1941.

Jewish woman who helped take down sex-trafficking ring in 1930s honored in Buenos Aires

Raquel Liberman was memorialized in a street tile and will have a subway station named for her.

Jacqueline van Maarsen smiles as she examines the first memorial brick in the Names Monument of Amsterdam, the Netherlands on Sept. 23. (Courtesy of Holocaust Names Monument Netherlands.)

Friend of Anne Frank lays first stone of Amsterdam’s newest Holocaust monument

“This is a special moment,” said Jacqueline van Maarsen, who donated more than $50,000 to a monument nearly 15 years in the works.

The time capsule extracted from a wall during renovations at what used to be a synagogue in Manchester, U.K. (Courtesy of the Jewish Museum of Manchester)

150-year-old time capsule found in a wall of oldest synagogue in British city

Auschwitz museum director asks to trade his freedom for Nigerian boy jailed for blasphemy

Multiple pedestrians injured in stabbings outside former Paris offices of Charlie Hebdo magazine

Insayno sings in a video clip from 2013 in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. (Insayno/YouTube)

Dutch city names as its resident poet a rapper who called the Holocaust a ‘cover-up for dumb sheep’

Kibitz is the Oxford English Dictionary’s word of the day

Heba Nabil Iskandarani. (Courtesy of Iskandarani)

Palestinian refugee receives Spanish citizenship after discovering Jewish Sephardic roots

A year after the Halle terror attack, Jews who were there are still looking for answers

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