Alexander ‘Sasha’ Pechersky led a successful prisoner revolt at the Sobibor death camp. His story of extraordinary courage was also the story of millions of Soviet Jews who lived and died in a country that refused to acknowledge their fate.
Who gets to trifle with despair?
How newly opened archives, a wider European scope, transnational narratives, and integrated big data are changing our understanding of the Shoah
As the daughter of Polish Holocaust survivors, I ask myself that question
A roundtable discussion with Holocaust survivors about the rise of antisemitism in America, and who will pass on the lessons of the Shoah when the last survivors are gone
A war reporter visits Slovakia to meet the peasant-turned-doctor who risked his life to hide Jews
A late-1970s surge in interest in the Holocaust coincided with a new ‘survivor’ mentality found in unexpected places, including Detroit and the Bee Gees
The author of the strangely misleading ‘Man’s Search for Meaning,’ repackaged as a psychotropic New Age guru, in the newly translated ‘Yes to Life: In Spite of Everything’
Seventy-seven years ago today, a landmark court case on Nazi war crimes began in the southern Russian city of Krasnodar. A Jewish poet in uniform tried to report on it in verse. His struggles challenged the Stalinist doctrine of universalizing the Soviet dead and obfuscating Jewish victimhood.
The profound weirdness of the Shoah Foundation’s hologram effort
Chemist, survivor, and author of the most necessary of all books about the Shoah
Could a homosexual love survive Theresienstadt?
Misplaced historical values, survivors dying off, the Labour Party’s new rhetoric, and pressures on secondary curricula are all contributing to a generation of U.K. children with little or incorrect knowledge of the horrors of World War II
The very private non-Holocaust-related life of Anne Frank: teenage manga girl, tampon-marketer, European traveler, and emblem of the twin evils of war and intolerance—and the Japanese ‘culture of apology’
A little-known Yiddish manuscript upends our idea of the secular saint of human suffering
What’s the right way to remember both victims and perpetrators of great crimes?
Jacob Neusner shows how an identity founded on oppression and persecution limits the potential of the Diaspora
The untold story of the great epic poem of the Holocaust—and the generous, tragic hero who wrote it
A yellowed photo hidden with an heirloom watch led me to discover a prewar life I never knew existed
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.
Varian Fry led the effort to save Hannah Arendt, Marc Chagall, and thousands of other European intellectuals from the Nazis. Why was he forgotten?
The singular horror of the Holocaust is being lost in exchange for enshrining rare moments of inspiration and universal narratives of suffering
