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Christopher Lambert, right, portraying a German Nazi officer in "Sobibor." (Courtesy of Rosiya Segondiya)
Following the Sobibor uprising, the Nazis razed the camp so that little more than a forest clearing remained in the remote area where SS guards and Ukrainians murdered 250,000 Jews.
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Talia Chain showing off the Havdalah area of her Sadeh Jewish farm near London, April 17, 2018. (Cnaan Liphshiz)
Sadeh welcomes hundreds of visitors each month, many of whom are students from Jewish schools in the London area who stay overnight, but also workers from Jewish and other organizations who come for a weekend retreat.
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A man wearing a kippah at a gathering in Berlin to protest anti-Semitism, April 25, 2018. (Carsten Koall/Getty Images)
A non-Jewish man wearing a yarmulke was assaulted on April 17 by an attacker shouting “Jew!” in Arabic.
Read MoreIn the case of Max Ehrlich, trying to survive meant producing with the Westerbork theater group of approximately 20 prisoners the most entertaining, wittiest and glitziest productions possible.
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Pieter Heijs showing one of the products of his Hollandia Matzes factory in Enschede, the Netherlands, March 19, 2018. (Cnaan Liphshiz)
Pieter Heijs, a co-owner of Hollandia Matzes in this eastern city, is probably the only matzoh maker in the world who braces for losses, not earnings, during Passover.
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"Sipora," a Jewish refugee from Iran, looking out the window of her daughter's Netherlands home, Feb. 15, 2018. (Cnaan Liphshiz)
“Sipora,” 60, was sentenced in absentia to death by public execution in 2013 by a Tehran court that convicted her of “violating Islamic rules [of the] Islamic Revolution” and “anti-regime activity.”
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Participants at a traditional Carnival parade in Maastricht, the Netherlands, March 2, 2014. (Marcel Van Hoorn/AFP/Getty Images)
The similarities between Purim and Carnival have long been apparent, and are probably the result of a universal desire to celebrate winter’s end and of centuries of cultural borrowing.
Read MoreJonny Daniels, who has helped restore 100s of Jewish headstones and raised millions to honor saviors of Jews during the Holocaust, says his alliances and media profile are “helping Poles and Jews bridge their tragic history toward greater understanding that will reduce … anti-Semitism.”
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Rabbi Elisha Salas, right, instructing a Belmonte baker in the preparation of kosher challah, April 2012. (Courtesy of Shavei Israel)
This uptick in kosher food production is occurring amid Portugal’s growing awareness of its rich Jewish history.
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Rabbi Slomo Koves, right, and a participant at Chabad Hungary's 2015 Chanukah on Ice event take selfies at Budapest's City Park Ice Rink, Dec. 6, 2015. (Courtesy of EMIH)
Like the massive menorah lightings, Europe’s growing Chanukah on ice trend — which this year can be observed in Budapest, Moscow and London — also started in the United States.
Read MoreSince 2014, at least 25,000 French Jews have immigrated to Israel alone — a 260 percent increase from the 9,537 who left France for the Jewish state in the previous five years.
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