The unknown story of the Bernese Group, a collective of Polish diplomats and Jewish activists in Switzerland who forged passports to try and help Jews escape the horrors of the Holocaust
Chris Weitz’s new ‘Operation Finale’ elegantly escapes turning into another dreary film that’s too embalmed in reverence to deal with real emotions
Three-quarters of a century after the Holocaust, we’ve learned some important lessons, but as Bosnia, Rwanda, and Syria remind us, there’s still much work to be done
The authors of a new history of the Grand Mufti Amin Al-Husaini’s ties to Nazis fail to carry their logic to its flawed conclusion
With a reference to ‘Polish death camps,’ Barack Obama stumbled into a debate about World War II
Dutch Jew David Koker’s extraordinary diary, a clear-eyed and sensitive account of life inside a concentration camp, is finally available in English
My life as an accidental Holocaust expert—and why I decided to quit
