Auschwitz

A survivor transforms as his son graduates medical school

Plus, a most-wanted Nazi gets arrested and Proust gets impersonated

Kickstarter for Cafe Oshpitzin has raised nearly $25,000 in under one month

How ethnographer Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett became the keeper of Poland’s Jewish heritage

Plus Poland’s ban on ritual slaughter will end supply of kosher meat

Menachem Bodner last saw his brother at Auschwitz when he was 4

World War II hero Witold Pilecki infiltrated the death camp and reported to the Polish high command

The genocide committed by Cambodia’s Khmer Rouge regime earns a place in Washington’s Holocaust Museum

Plus endorsements, endorsements

Berlin’s Jewish Museum gave Judith Butler and Germans permission to indulge dangerous political impulses

Danilo Kiš’s fiction, newly translated, mined the Shoah with a Borgesian sense of mystery

A Holocaust survivor, she nurtured me with silence. This Mother’s Day, I’ll mourn for her—quietly.

A film of nude people playing in a gas chamber is but one piece aiming to shock at the Berlin Biennale art show

The Auschwitz survivor known as Ka-Tzetnik 135633 wrote lurid novels derided as pornography when they were published. Now he’s Israel’s Elie Wiesel.

Plus Annan would leave Assad, the Big Baby and his knishes, and more