The chemist and survivor—author of the most necessary of all books about the Shoah—would have turned 100 today

A memoir of one of North America’s first and most enduring day schools, and where those kids ended up

Willy Foerster saved Jews fleeing the Nazis by employing them in his Tokyo factory but was framed as a collaborator after the war and has remained largely unknown

Ep. 183: Yiddish Fiddler on the Roof’s Jackie Hoffman and Motl Didner, and Australian punk rocker-turned-novelist Bram Presser

The congresswoman makes Holocaust survivors into victims again, this time by rewriting their well-documented experiences

Could a homosexual love survive Theresienstadt?

How two fundamental pillars of Western thought—classical Greek rationalism and monotheistic Jewish faith—collided in a remote area of the archipelago to produce a short-lived but influential communist

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