The Untold Story of the First Jewish Women in Auschwitz

Beit Shalom Congregation in Kiev Honors the Memory of Holocaust victims

This year on January 27, the world commemorated not only the International Holocaust Remembrance Day, but also the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz.

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Yad Vashem

Yad Vashem. Holocaust Memorial

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A Cherished Sweater: Kristine Keren's Green Sweater

For Kristine Chiger (later Kristine Keren post-war), then a 7-year old Jewish girl whose family was relocated to the Lvov ghetto, one piece of material comfort she clung to over the years was a minty…

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Hologram to Retell Stories from the Holocaust

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…

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Holocaust Testimony. Jackie Albin

Jackie Albin’s Holocaust Testimony at Beth-El Shalom

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The Lack of Jewish Resistance During the Holocaust

Many factors made Jewish resistance to the Nazis during the Holocaust both difficult and dangerous.

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Buchenwald

Buchenwald was liberated by the US Third Army on April 11, 1945 at 3:15pm.

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Israel Honors Chiune Sempo Sugihara for Saving Jews

Israel named one of its streets after Chiune Sempo Sugihara. Chinue was a Japanese diplomat who was very helpful in saving the lives of many Jews during World War II. (“Israel Names Street after…

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Martin Kapel: German, Poland and England

Martin was born in Leipzig, Germany in 1930. As the son of Polish parents Martin was legally classed as a Polish citizen by the nationality laws of both Poland and Germany. This fact was to become…

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The Holocaust Just Got More Shocking

THIRTEEN years ago, researchers at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum began the grim task of documenting all the ghettos, slave labor sites, concentration camps and killing factories that…

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Why do People Still Deny the Holocaust

Did the Holocaust really happen?

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Krystyna’s Story

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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Remembering Lucy Baum

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.

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The Giro d'Italia's Secret Holocaust Hero and Cycling Champ

Gino Bartali, born in poverty to a Catholic family in Tuscany, grew up as an enthusiastic and passionate bicyclist.

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The Holocaust: Can it Happen Again and What Was Learned

The Holocaust has a notorious past in which the idea and the act of genocide, as well as the word itself, came into clear view. Soon after, the crime of genocide was written into international law.…

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