Anne Frank: The Collected Works, which consists of three versions of her famous diary and several letters she wrote to her paternal grandmother before the 15-year-old perished in the Holocaust, was published on June 25, about two weeks after what would have been her 90th birthday.

The collection includes the original diary as well as a version she edited, and an amalgamation of the two, which is commonly taught in American schools. That classroom version was published in 1991.

Anne Frank died at Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in Germany in 1945, less than a year after she and her family were discovered by the Nazis in their hiding place in Amsterdam.

For the first time in more than 1,500 years, the ruins of a synagogue dating back to the 4th century CE in the Calabria area of southern Italy played host to a Jewish wedding on June 4.

Roque Pugliese and Ivana Pezzoli, both of whom are descendants of Iberian Jews forcibly converted during the 14th and 15th centuries, were married in an emotional and historic ceremony at the site of the second-oldest synagogue ever found in Europe, reported JNS (Jewish News Service).

Pugliese’s parents hid their Jewish roots while he grew up in Calabria and Argentina. Discovering his heritage, Pugliese decided to formally return to Judaism with assistance from the Shavei Israel organization.

While Pezzoli was raised with certain Jewish traditions in her family, she was never told why. Researching her family history, she found that she had Jewish roots, and she embarked on an extensive study of Judaism for more than eight years before undergoing formal conversion.

Pugliese and Pezzoli are medics; they met while working at a local hospital, and are now living religiously observant Jewish lives.

The wedding took place in the archaeological park adjacent to the southern Italian seaside village of Bova Marina, where the remains of a synagogue were unearthed in 1983 during the construction of a road.

Russian President Vladimir Putin attended the unveiling ceremony for a new memorial dedicated to the heroes of the resistance movement in concentration camps and ghettos during WWII. The memorial is housed in the Jewish Museum and Tolerance Center in Moscow.

Museum officials, Russia’s chief rabbi, and the president of the Federation of Jewish Communities took part in the June 4 event. Also present was Aron Bielski, the youngest of the four Bielski brothers — Jewish partisans who helped rescue Jews from extermination by the Nazis.

Both Putin and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu participated in laying the monument’s foundation stone on International Holocaust Day a year ago. [Pictured, from left, Museum trustee board chair Viktor Vekselberg, Russian President Vladimir Putin, and Russia’s chief rabbi Berel Lazar. Jewish Museum and Tolerance Center photo.]

Germany’s Holocaust archive has uploaded more than 13 million documents from Nazi concentration camps, including prisoner cards and death notices, to help Holocaust researchers and others investigate the fate of victims, the Associated Press reported. The documents consist of information on more than 2.2 million affected, courtesy of assistance from Yad Vashem in Israel. The searchability function is being improved as well.

The International Tracing Service also announced that its name will be changed to Arolsen Archives-International Center on Nazi Persecution. “It is so important that the original documents can speak to coming generations,” archive director Floriane Azoulay told the AP.

Violent anti-Semitic attacks rose by 13 percent worldwide in 2018, with the highest number of incidents reported in Western democracies, including the United States, the United Kingdom, France and Germany, an annual report revealed.

According to the report published by Tel Aviv University’s Kantor Center and the European Jewish Congress, 387 incidents were recorded in 2018, compared with 342 in 2017.

The report found the most serious anti-Semitic incidents were recorded in the United States, which has the largest Jewish population outside of Israel. In 2018, 100 incidents were recorded in the U.S., followed by the United Kingdom with 68, France and Germany at 35 incidents each, Belgium with 19, and the Netherlands at 15. Other countries with major incidents include Canada with 20 and Argentina with 11. The remaining incidents were scattered throughout the countries of the world.

One woman died, and three were hospitalized after a shooting at a synagogue in Poway, CA, outside San Diego.

San Diego County Sheriff William Gore said at a news conference that a 19-year-old white man, identified as John Earnest, had entered Chabad of Poway on Saturday, April 27, and opened fire on worshippers with an AR-type assault weapon, which he had purchased legally the previous day from a San Diego dealer. Earnest was later taken into custody by a California Highway Patrol officer who heard about the incident on a police scanner, saw the suspect in his car, and apprehended him. Earnest told police he had done it “to defend the nation” from the Jewish people, according to an AP report.

John T. Earnest has been charged with one count of first-degree murder and three counts of attempted murder, the San Diego Sheriff’s Department said.

The shooting came exactly six months after a shooting at a Pittsburgh synagogue killed 11 people in the deadliest attack on Jews in U.S. history. A truck driver who authorities say expressed hatred of Jews has been charged in the Oct. 27 rampage at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh. He pleaded not guilty.