How U.S. establishment ‘wise man’ John J. McCloy freed some of Nazi Germany’s most culpable mass murderers
European Orthodoxy faces the Holocaust
A world of avant-garde Jewish art was destroyed by the Holocaust, along with the ability of publishers and readers alike to see Jews simply as artists
Creating a new, deeply Jewish liturgy for Yom HaShoah, drawing on the Passover Haggadah
Taxi driver Jackie Young found out he wasn’t who he thought he was
The profound weirdness of the Shoah Foundation’s hologram effort
As the daughter of Polish Holocaust survivors, I ask myself that question
Tracking down the identity of an anonymous Auschwitz prisoner
As we commemorate Yom Ha’Shoah, reflecting on how the frameworks to prosecute genocide and crimes against humanity were constructed
A teary commemoration of Yom Ha’Shoah
From ‘Night and Fog’ to ‘Grand Illusion,’ movies (and TV shows) that help us reckon with the darkest period in our history
Yom HaShoah/Holocaust Remembrance Day: Brave men sounded the alarm that went tragically unheeded
Yom HaShoah/Holocaust Remembrance Day: A state-sponsored institution in Vilnius rewrites history to the delight of Europe’s new ultranationalists
A visit to Buchenwald left me feeling defiantly alive
Rokhl’s Golden City: Secular Seders, camp epiphanies, and Yom HaShoah
Hundreds of Holocaust survivors and their families gathered in Israel to sing Ofra Haza’s ‘Chai,’ a song about the endurance of the Jewish people
An ‘archaeologist of bureaucracy’ traces the ghostly lives of foreign Jews in Italy during World War II
A daughter of the resistance notes the true inspiration of the survivors: their refusal to disconnect from the past
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