A song about Rosalie Schiff, who lost her family in Belzec Concentration camp and stayed up at night repeating her sister's name, Lucia, who was only 14.
MAINZ, Germany -- In their search for justice that has endured for decades, the biggest challenge Nazi hunters face is time. The knowledge that war criminals are escaping prosecution through death by…
During the Holocaust, countless Jewish organizations and individuals worldwide did what they could to save their brethren. While these rescue efforts were initiated by Jews, most would have had…
The following is intended to provide a frame of reference for discussion. Anti-Semitism Anti-Semitism is a prejudice and/or discrimination against Jews. Anti-Semitism can be based on hatred against…
NEW YORK – Gretel Bergmann matched a German high jump record on June 30, 1936.Two weeks later, the 5 feet, 3 inches she jumped in Stuttgart, Germany, was all but obliterated and she was kicked off…
Adolfo Kaminsky was a courageous member of the French Resistance who dedicated three decades of his life to forging identity papers – illegally, of course - to help save the lives of the Jewish…
In 1939 Helena Sitkowska was a widow, a retired teacher, and a mother of two: 15-year-old Andrzej and 10-year-old Magda. The family lived in Bielany, a precinct of Warsaw. Before, in the 1930s, they…
For years, Holocaust survivor Pinchus Gutter has told the tragic story of watching his parents and 10-year-old twin sister herded into a Nazi death camp's gas chambers so quickly that he had no time…
In the fall of 1943, Refik Veseli, a sixteen-year-old Albanian photography student, received permission from his parents to hide Mosa Mandil and his family, Jewish refugees from Yugoslavia, in the…
The Holocaust was the systematic persecution and annihilation of more than 6 million Jews as a central act of state by Nazi Germany and its collaborators between 1933 and 1945. Although millions of…