When I began teaching university courses on the Shoah, most of my students had a direct personal stake in the subject. I was on the east coast of the United…
Sam Weinreich rebuilt life from ashes of the Holocaust. He received more than 2000 cards celebrating his 100th birthday.
'Face to Face' project at Shem Olam Holocaust Memorial Center hopes to match family pictures from around the time of WWII with its database of tens of thousands of photos,…
Hirsz Litmanowicz estuvo tres meses en el campo de concentración de Polonia y sufrió los atroces experimentos del infame médico. Dialogó con Nelson, el corresponsal.
This “outrageous and deeply offensive” incident is “another example of SJP’s anti-Semitic practice of marginalizing Jews and reducing their identity to their connection to Israel” on college campuses, says ADL…
She is one of a dwindling number of people who survived the concentration camp of Auschwitz during World War II
POPRAD, SLOVAKIASeventy-five years ago, Russian soldiers advanced on Auschwitz. It was January 27, 1945, when the gates were finally opened to about 6,000 prisoners. Days earlier, the Nazis had forced…
During the ’70s, miniseries became the ultimate way to change the conversation about how Americans talk about events. When Roots arrived, people simultaneously became big into charting their ancestors and dealing with…
Upon the 78th anniversary of Babi Yar: It was a poet’s pen rather than a soldier’s bayonet that first punctured the Iron Curtain.
The Lodz Ghetto was the second-largest ghetto (after the Warsaw Ghetto) established for Jews and Roma in German-occupied Poland. Situated in the city of Łódź and originally intended as a temporary…
