International Holocaust Remembrance Day

10 Little Known Facts About the Holocaust

Here you'll find 10 facts about the Holocaust that you probably didn't learn in school.

Italy and the Holocaust

The story of how Elizabeth Bettina's grandparents' small village in Campagna, Italy helped save Jews during the holocaust.

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On February 6, 1947, 11 1/2-year-old Krystyna Chiger was interviewed by Magistrate Maria Holender. During the war, she had been hidden with her family in the sewers of Lvov, a city in Poland. Here is…

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WWII Holocaust Heroes - Zookeeper's Jan and Antonina Zabinski

As many as 300 passed through the zoo, and many survived the war because of Jan and his wife.

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Hitler Statue Placed Outside Warsaw Ghetto Stokes Outrage

JTA — An Italian artist placed a statue of Adolf Hitler in a building outside what used to be the Warsaw Ghetto. The statue, which depicts Hitler kneeling and is titled "Him," is part of a new…

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The Jewish Ghettos of World War II

The ghettos of World War II were established by the Nazis to create a total confinement for the Jewish population, turning entire neighborhoods into a prison unlike the ghettos of centuries past.

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It's the Right Thing to Do

Abhorred by the actions of the Nazis, one leader in a distant southwestern Asian archipelago opened the doors of his country to Jews needing to flee their homelands, and saved the lives of…

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France to Return Art Stolen by Nazis

The French government has launched a new bid to return paintings stolen by the Nazis to their rightful owners - or, given the seven decades that has passed - their descendants. Depicting the Normandy…

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A Holocaust Survivor that Never Lost Hope

Sara Atzmon is a Holocaust survivor with an amazing story.

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Rose Lipszyc

Rose Lipszyc was born to a Jewish family in Poland in 1929, and lived a life of relative peace, stability, and childhood innocence until the Nazis deported her family to the ghettos where her parents…

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60 Minutes: Sir Nicholas Winton's Letter to FDR Found

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Why do People Still Deny the Holocaust

Did the Holocaust really happen?

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Surviving with a Muslim Identity in Warsaw

Jews living under false identity during the Holocaust faced enormous challenges. The fact that Jewish males are circumcised and bear the mark of their identity on their body presented an additional…

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