Géza Röhrig talks about his life-affirming fascination with death, his new film ‘To Dust,’ and why he wore a kippah to press events surrounding his breakout performance in the Oscar-winning ‘Son of Saul’

Judaism offers the same baroque supernatural possibilities that Christianity does. So why is it rarely a universal source for genre filmmakers? And what does it say about human evil?

Hans Morgenstern’s family fled the Nazis before returning to Austria after the war. Now, as the only Jew left in his small town outside Vienna, he laughs darkly watching the rise of Europe’s new far-right.

In a note to his Ukrainian readers dictated before his death last year, Aharon Appelfeld explains the sources of his haunting novel of prewar Poland

One year after the death of the great writer, his humanity still shines

Every year at Christmas, Howard Kaplan sends thanks and a modest gift to the granddaughter of the woman who hid his mother from the Nazis

An Austrian-born American abstract artist arrives at 87 annī and amazes anew

Who gets to trifle with despair?

Orphaned by Auschwitz, he devoted his life to documenting the Nazis’ crimes

Is American anti-Semitism really distinctive from that of other diaspora countries? Just how worried should we be?

A first English translation of the great Italian Jewish author’s single-volume compendium of tales of Ferrara reminds us of the power of his ghosts

Why do so many Americans seem uncomfortable with the particular nature of the attack—its apparent motive, its specific victims—in Pittsburgh?

The story of a Jewish Germanophile who became a Soviet investigator of Nazi crimes

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 unlikely friendship of a concentration camp survivor, the grandson of a Nazi commandant, and a Pakistani-German attorney

In the event of capture, Sonia carried two hand grenades: ‘One for the enemy, and one for myself’

Why Germany seeks to increase trade with a murderous theocracy bent on Israel’s destruction

Javier Cercas’ new book is an insightful literary investigation into the lies of a Spanish narcissist who passed himself off as a victim of the Holocaust

An interview with Heather Morris, author of The Tattooist of Auschwitz 

Ep. 148: ‘Operation Finale’ actor Nick Kroll and director Chris Weitz on bringing the Eichmann capture to the big screen

On the anniversary of the Bialystok Ghetto uprising, Haika Grossman remembers the fire of revolt that sealed the fate of the remnants of Polish Jewry

On the 75th anniversary of the Bialystok Ghetto uprising, a Jewish fighter remembers how the fires were lit

The tragic reality is that most Poles were neither heroes nor demons but simply watched in silence while Jews were being taken away under their eyes.

Sons and daughters of survivors, looking for a sense of closure in Poland

Nothing about the Shoah was logical or made sense. Our task, our mission, today and always, is not to try to understand, but to remember.

The scholars, historians, and political advisers who shaped the West’s understanding of Nazi Germany, the Soviet Union, and the Islamist Middle East, make way now for—what?

Everybody gets it wrong sometimes, says the morally oblivious oligarch

Tablet Fiction: ‘I am the custodian of the killing fields’

The ‘Shoah’ filmmaker, who died last week at age 92, would not look away