Rescuing peasants under Nazi occupation from the condescension of history
A Holocaust survivor and her family in hiding and on the run
A stunning piece of scholarly detective work, aided by a new database, restores the identity of a Dutch Jewish hero of the Sobibor revolt
I never knew my grandmother, who died in the Holocaust, but I found a way to connect to her through embroidery
An exchange between Bernard-Henri Lévy and Natan Sharansky, from the recent Tablet event in partnership with the Jewish Confederation of Ukraine
The legacy of Nazi laws can still be found in the official documents for our grandfather—and other Jews who had their names changed against their will
A drawing for International Holocaust Remembrance Day
The secularization of Europe ‘liberated’ the Jews while laying the foundations for genocidal antisemitism
A war reporter visits Slovakia to meet the peasant-turned-doctor who risked his life to hide Jews
A new exhibit examines the Holocaust through the experience of scrolls
A recent gathering of 56 survivors in the Hudson Valley was a painful and uncomfortable reminder that living memory of the Holocaust has nearly run out forever
The country’s public dedication to Holocaust remembrance has masked a startling disregard for justice
Decades after the deaths of my grandparents, who were Holocaust survivors, I discovered relatives I never knew—and my family’s heroic history
How France betrayed the very Jews who placed their faith and fortunes in its ideals and culture
What began as a way to bring Nazi murderers to justice has become the model for a new kind of memory politics whose falsehoods and contradictions threaten to undo the framework of our civic life
Is it truly possible to choose your own place in the arc of Jewish history?
As Adolf Hitler rose to power in Germany and then embarked on his program of world conquest and mass extermination, The New York Times’ Berlin bureau chief was busy slanting the news in his favor
Between 1940 and 1944 a clandestine network of Polish diplomats and their Jewish partners in Switzerland created illegal Latin American passports that saved thousands of lives. Half of the documents were forged by one person—Polish Vice Consul in Berne Konstanty Rokicki.