Château de Chaumont was a sanctuary for young Jews fleeing the Nazis. Now a British contractor is restoring the French mansion, and documenting his renovations online.
Paying musical tribute to the Japanese diplomat who rescued thousands of Jews during the Holocaust
Photographer B.A. Van Sise shares stories of Holocaust survivors and how they built new lives after losing so much
Why Eva Mozes Kor ‘forgave’ Josef Mengele—and what that really means
A roundtable discussion with Holocaust survivors about the rise of antisemitism in America, the importance of education, and who will pass on the lessons of the Shoah when the last survivors are gone
Jehovah’s Witnesses share the story of their unique experiences during the Holocaust—and the lessons that can be applied today as they face continued persecution in Russia and elsewhere
How my husband’s family story of survival became my own
A story of an instrument that survived the Holocaust, passed down from one generation to another
As the documentary ‘Three Minutes’ brings a Polish town’s Jewish pre-Holocaust history into focus, a Yizkor book helped me imagine life in my parents’ Romanian hometown
What another Holocaust survivor’s book taught me about my own mother’s life
Taking a new look at my family’s history, after watching Ken Burns’ PBS documentary ‘The U.S. and the Holocaust’
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
Grandchildren of Holocaust survivors continue to share their families’ stories
In a new book and forthcoming documentary film, Anna Salton Eisen tells the stories about the Holocaust that her parents once tried to hide from her
Finding the woman who’d been left out of our family’s history helped me to reconnect with my father, my family, and my past
An educational program in Australian schools trains a new generation to teach children about the Holocaust
Descendants of survivors are sometimes afflicted with a unique pain of their own
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.