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Before and during WWII, German corporations went from the abandonment of Jewish colleagues, through profiting off the dispossession and murd...
In the late 1970’s, the American TV mini series “Holocaust” was broadcast in West Germany, and immediately took over the public discourse. F...
A sister writes to her brother, telling him their mother is gone. A husband, still looking for his wife and son, writes to old friends askin...
In August 1941, a young writer, Leyb Goldin, sat down to write about his day, struggling to survive in the Warsaw ghetto. This short piece o...
On July 7 1944, a mere couple of hours before the liquidation of the Będzin Ghetto and the murder of all the Jews imprisoned in it, Sarah an...
Calel (Calek) Perechodnik was a Jewish policeman in the Otwock ghetto. Within his role, he took part in an Aktion (forced deportation) in wh...
In the spring of 1944, Sara Leicht was deported with her family from her home in Talgad, a small village in Transylvania, to the concentrati...
In this episode we will continue to trace the fate of the Jews imprisoned in the Minsk Ghetto, focusing on one of its unique dimensions – th...
The Minsk Ghetto was the fourth-largest ghetto, but for many reasons, its story is virtually unknown. Most of the witnesses and testimonies...
In Nazi Germany, and throughout Europe during the Holocaust period, Jews filed tens of thousands of petitions against their legal status and...
Today marks Holocaust Martyrs' and Heroes' Remembrance Day (Yom Hashoah) 2022. In keeping with Yad Vashem's annual theme, "Transports to Ext...
Holocaust-era diary writing offers a rare glimpse into real-time events and personal reflections that, had they not been written, may well h...
In early 1942, several high-ranking Nazi officials convened in a lavish villa outside Berlin for what would later be known as the Wannsee Co...
Just before the outbreak of World War II, about 10,000 Jewish children were given a rare chance to escape from mainland Europe. They were se...
On April 10, 1961, at 8:55 a.m. Adolf Eichmann, who during the Holocaust period had orchestrated the deportations of Jews to ghettos and ext...
In a morally bankrupt world, at a time when the attitude of the majority of the local population towards Jews was tainted by apathy or outri...
For years, the story of Regina Jonas was lost to the world. Then, in the 90s, scholars began to discover this woman of extraordinary talent...
On September 28, 1941, a German edict was issued ordering the Jews of Kiev and of the surrounding area to gather some clothes and belongings...
Shmerke Kaczerginski was a boisterous, radical young writer and musician who led an exciting circle of young artists who called themselves "...
Kurt Gerstein defies easy categorization. The Germans didn't know what to think of him, the French changed their minds. His friends and fami...