A Nobel Prize winning physicist who helped build the atomic bomb had a deep and abiding relationship to his Orthodox Jewish upbringing

A new World War II documentary follows the lives of three GIs as they battle antisemitism, and also the Nazis

Renato Levi was recruited to spy for the Germans in World War II, but he was actually a double agent, secretly working for the British

A translated excerpt from a recent novel traces the anguished, long-buried history of a Jewish family in wartime France

The long afterlife of Pvt. Albert Birnbaum

My grandfather fought the Nazis in WWII, and brought home war trophies, including a belt buckle and a helmet with swastikas on them. Now that I’ve inherited them, I wrestle with what to do with them.

The family dynamics in World War II-era movies make today’s political disagreements seem like sandbox squabbles

An analysis of photographs sold at a Jerusalem auction house offers new insight into the role of foreign accomplices in Hitler’s Final Solution

Contrary to Stanisław Żaryn’s excuses, no reputable historian believes that ‘the Polish nation’ was responsible for Nazi German crimes in Poland. Which is why the Polish government should leave the writing of history to historians.

Is Pawel Pawlikowski’s new film ‘Ida’ the Polish answer to ‘Aftermath,’ or a story of Jewish suffering and sacrifice?

Latvian Jews fought with Stalin against the Nazis for their very existence

Alexander ‘Sasha’ Pechersky led a successful prisoner revolt at the Sobibor death camp. His story of extraordinary courage was also the story of millions of Soviet Jews who lived and died in a country that refused to acknowledge their fate.

A new foreword to Julius Margolin’s stunning, recovered memoir of the gulag

Traitors or survivors, cowards or brave men—fools or wise heeders of Jewish parables on the sanctity of each individual life?