Lev Ginzburg, Soviet Translator
The story of a Jewish Germanophile who became a Soviet investigator of Nazi crimes
The Failure of Holocaust Education in Britain
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
Life After Dachau
The unlikely friendship of a concentration camp survivor, the grandson of a Nazi commandant, and a Pakistani-German attorney
Sonia Orbuch, Who Fought the Nazis as a Teenager, Has Died at 93
In the event of capture, Sonia carried two hand grenades: ‘One for the enemy, and one for myself’
Angela Merkel’s Ugly Romance With the Iranian Regime
Why Germany seeks to increase trade with a murderous theocracy bent on Israel’s destruction
A Song of the Vilna Ghetto
Sept. 23 will mark 75 years since the liquidation of the Vilna Ghetto. This is the story of how one of the era’s most famous Jewish songs was written in the ghetto by an 11-year-old boy
The Impostor
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
Love in a Place of Death: ‘The Tattooist of Auschwitz’
An interview with Heather Morris, author of The Tattooist of Auschwitz
Operation Unorthodox
Ep. 148: ‘Operation Finale’ actor Nick Kroll and director Chris Weitz on bringing the Eichmann capture to the big screen
We Seek Our Brothers
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
Those Who Left and Those Who Rebelled
On the 75th anniversary of the Bialystok Ghetto uprising, a Jewish fighter remembers how the fires were lit
Poles and the Holocaust: A Reckoning With History
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.
My Journey to the Past
Sons and daughters of survivors, looking for a sense of closure in Poland
Remembering My Father in Auschwitz
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 Generation That Shaped Our Understanding of the 20th Century Is Gone
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?
Mark Zuckerberg: Holocaust Deniers on Facebook Are Making an Honest Mistake
Everybody gets it wrong sometimes, says the morally oblivious oligarch
Games at Birkenau
Tablet Fiction: ‘I am the custodian of the killing fields’
Homage to Lanzmann
The ‘Shoah’ filmmaker, who died last week at age 92, would not look away
Comrades, Run!
How a grueling 56-mile ultramarathon in South Africa became a stage for racial reconciliation—and national belonging for immigrant Jews
The Half-Life of Sexual Abuse in a Holocaust-Survivor Family
Helen Epstein completes her clear-eyed, fearless, taboo-breaking autobiographical trilogy
Just Outside Hiroshima, a Holocaust Education Center Flourishes
‘My dream is that 1.5 million Japanese students will visit us and change Japan’
The Diary of Anne
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’
Italy Seeks to Remember Sheltering Holocaust Survivors—and Aliyah Bet
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
Meeting a Holocaust Survivor Inspired Illinois Students to Establish Genocide Museum in Their High School
‘I was motivated to apply the stories I heard to my own life and do the same with my community’
Neo-Poland: An Original Poem
Today on Jewcy: Grappling with the controversial new law
New Documents Reveal FDR’s Eugenic Project to ‘Resettle’ Jews During World War II
As the Holocaust raged, the American president secretly asked his government to study the possible resettlement of remaining European refugees in Africa and South America. His goal: for Jews to be ‘spread thin all over the world.’
On the 75th Anniversary of the Destruction of the Warsaw Ghetto, Remembering Those We’ve Lost
On a train from Berlin to Poland last week, I thought about my brother Benjamin, who was five-and-a-half when he was murdered by the Nazis. Today I honor his memory and the memory of all who perished in the Holocaust.
The History and Future of Holocaust Research
How newly opened archives, a wider European scope, transnational narratives, and integrated big data are changing our understanding of the Shoah
