How individual, ordinary Jews fought Nazi persecution − a new view of history
In Nazi Germany, Hertha Reis, a 36-year-old Jewish woman, performed forced labor for a private company in Berlin during World ...
The Singular Tragedy of Anne Frank
The more Anne Frank becomes a generic symbol of all historical tragedy, the less we remember who she was and what happened to ...
How We Must Continue to Fight Antisemitism 80 Years After the Liberation of Auschwitz
M onday, Jan. 27, marks 80 years since the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp. Ten days prior to the ...
Oświęcim’s sole Jewish resident reflects on modern antisemitism on 80th anniversary of Auschwitz camp’s liberation
Among 34,000 people in the town of Oświęcim is just one Jew – a young Israeli named Hila Weisz-Gut. It’s an interesting ...
80 years after the liberation of Auschwitz, amid rising antisemitism, the memory of the Holocaust remains contentious
The liberation of Auschwitz is being commemorated in the shadow of rising antisemitism in Australia and globally.
Auschwitz was liberated 80 years ago. The spotlight is on survivors as their numbers dwindle
The main observances take place at the site in southern Poland where Nazi Germany murdered over a million people ...
We must teach people not to forget the Holocaust. Then we can say never again. | Opinion
Seventeen million souls deprived of the right to experience life. Anyone who views the Holocaust as a Jewish problem is ...
Holocaust Remembrance Day: A town once inhabited by Nazis reconciles with the past
As Holocaust Remembrance Day is marked on Jan. 27, a town in southwestern Germany unflinchingly confronts its past and ...
The gay Jewish athlete who gave hope to the children of Auschwitz
A new book explores the bravery and kindness of Fredy Hirsch who stood up to Eichmann and Mengele. Here, the author tells ...
On Holocaust Remembrance Day, looking for the righteous in Gaza | Opinion
On International Holocaust Remembrance Day, a former fellow of the Hannah Arendt Center at Bard College and the Holocaust ...
Antisemitism isn’t ‘just a joke’ | Opinion
Noa Nierman, a 15-year-old sophomore at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, describes a recent incidence of antisemitic ...
How Jan. 27 came to be International Day of Commemoration in Memory of the Victims of the Holocaust
A historian of the Holocaust and curator of the Auschwitz exhibition, now in Toronto, invites all who gather on Jan. 27 to ...