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

How a grueling 56-mile ultramarathon in South Africa became a stage for racial reconciliation—and national belonging for immigrant Jews

Helen Epstein completes her clear-eyed, fearless, taboo-breaking autobiographical trilogy

‘My dream is that 1.5 million Japanese students will visit us and change Japan’

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’

As Italy celebrates the birth of the Italian Republic in 1946, its political left finds a use in reviving the history of ordinary Italians who helped WWII refugees make their way to Palestine

‘I was motivated to apply the stories I heard to my own life and do the same with my community’

Today on Jewcy: Grappling with the controversial new law