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Holocaust Studies
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Issues
by Dr. Yvette Alt Miller
Making it a crime to imply any Polish culpability for Nazi crimes denies the historical record.
by Rabbi Avi Shafran
The extermination of the Jews was not a means to any end; it was an end in itself.
Videos
by BBC
Nicholas Winton saved 669 children from the Holocaust. In this moving clip he meets them for the first time.
People
by Beth Sarafraz
A glimpse into the eventful, fearless life of an indomitable survivor.
by Marnie Winston-Macauley
A brief primer on the historic War Crime Trials.
Father Patrick Desbois has dedicated his life to unearthing unmarked Jewish mass graves in Eastern Europe.
by Ronda Robinson
Henry Gallant was a passenger on the doomed SS St. Louis that fled Nazi Germany but was refused entry.
by Faigy Schonfeld
A feast of rotten potatoes in Leipzig.
by Rabbi Naftali Schiff and JRoots
The miracle of survival, faith and the wisdom of a remarkable lady who knows how to live. (Adult discretion advised)
by Chaim Yitzchok Wolgelernter, Hy”d
A rare Holocaust diary appears 70 years after being written by its doomed author.
by Dr. Rafael Medoff and JNS.org
One possible answer to Pope Francis’s question.
After seeing the whole world bleed and collapse in on itself, this cannot be happening. We must jump.
How did a survivor who wouldn’t buy a ticket to Israel afford to commission a Torah scroll all by himself?
Rabbi Benjamin Blech
by Rabbi Benjamin Blech
Justice is not being served.
by Martin Greenfield
I made a vow: If I survived Buchenwald, I would return and kill the mayor’s wife.
by Yakov Brachfeld
My grandfather’s Passover Seder, hiding from Nazis in the Krakow Ghetto.
by JRoots
In Poland, a Holocaust survivor shares his harrowing experiences with young Jews.
An Auschwitz survivor shares her faith with the Next Generation.
There is a recent trend to trivialize and mock the Holocaust through art. What’s behind these shocking depictions?
by Menucha Chana Levin
Fanny and Jerry Goose’s story of surviving the Holocaust.
The incredible determination and faith of Ben Hirsch, a German boy left orphaned by the Holocaust.
by Emily Amrousi
Moshe Kraus saved tens of thousands of Jews. Why has no one heard of him?
by Rabbi Shmuel Burstein
The amazing story of survival in the sewers of Lvov.
by David Sussman
An eyewitness account of a public hanging carried out by the Nazis.
by Eli Levine
Disguised as a Nazi, Pinchas Rosenbaum saved hundreds of Jews in Hungary.
As the last generation to know Holocaust survivors, the theft reminds us of our responsibility to preserve their memories.
by Anthony Robbins
The inspiration behind an Oscar-nominated documentary, Alice Herz-Sommer passed away a week before the Academy Awards at age 110.
by Benjamin Brafman
My name is Yechiel Michoel Friedman. I was murdered in Auschwitz and don't you ever forget me.
by Roizy Waldman
Violinist Bronislaw Huberman saved hundreds from the Nazis. The amazing story behind Joshua Bell’s priceless Stradivarius.
by Reuven Lewis, M.Ed.
We have a duty to educate the world. Here is one survivor’s harrowing story.
by Tassoula Eptakili
How Zakynthos, a Greek island, hid its Jews from the Nazis.
by Michael Ignatieff
One country saved its Jews. Were they just better people?
Ben Lesser a Holocaust survivor, on living a life that matters.
by Margareta Ackerman
My grandfather’s struggle to survive in Nazi occupied Europe.
by Viva Hammer
The Germans should pay for their successive degradation of our humanity, but reparations are a mean and cruel salve.
by Suly Chenkin
At the age of 1, I survived the selection in the Kovno Ghetto that wiped out a third of the population.
by Dr. Rafael Medoff and Mishpacha Magazine
With the American press whitewashing the Nazi dictator, Jewish organizations staged a mock trial at Madison Square Gardens.
Claude Lansmann’s film, The Last of the Unjust, explores the moral ramifications of Benjamin Murmelstein’s pact with the devil.
Can the Holocaust be told using just one word: Jew?
by Michal Eisikowitz
The Oswego refugee camp looked like a concentration camp, but it was the one bright light within a dark and shameful presidential policy.
by Rabbi Tzvi Gluckin
A story of survival and a libretto for six million.
Three groundbreaking works reveal disturbing facts about the perpetrators of genocide.
by Erica Silver
As a child, the horrors of the Holocaust mirrored the incendiary chaos of my home life.
How Nazis evaded justice with the help of the Vatican and the Red Cross.
Dr. Mohamed Helmy, an Egyptian Arab, risked his own life to save a Jewish family during the Holocaust.
by Dr. Joanna M. Saidel
The largely overlooked story of how Heinrich Himmler saved thousands of Jews at the end of WWII.
Efraim Zuroff wants the world to know that injustice won't be tolerated.
by Steve Eisenberg
How Rabbi Herschel Schacter saved the life of a Jewish boy who grew up to be Rabbi Yisrael Meir Lau.
by Rabbi Yossi Friedman
Along with the horrors of the Holocaust, we must never forget the courage and unwavering faith.
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