The Untold Story of the First Jewish Women in Auschwitz

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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Dachau Concentration Camp Liberation

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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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This Will Live in Your Memories Forever

Not since 1938 had anyone in Nazi Germany dared to hold a Seder, the traditional religious feast marking the beginning of Passover, a Jewish holiday celebrating the Hebrews’ liberation from slavery…

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Auschwitz: Drone Video of Nazi Concentraton Camp

Drone video shows the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp as it is today - 70 years after it was liberated by Soviet troops.

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Hitler Tried to Kill Me

“In many cases, Hitler succeeded in wiping out total families,” Holocaust survivor Nat Shaffir said. “He did not succeed with me. I won, not him.”

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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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Holocaust Remembrance

"It should not be forgotten. There was no reason for what was done to the people in this world."

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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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Decades After This Man Survived the Holocaust His Family Discovered a Distressing Nazi Secret

Ernst Bornstein’s story of suffering at the hands of the Nazis during World War Two was all too common for Jews living in Europe at the time.

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WWII Holocaust Heroines - The Cook Sisters - Louise and Ida Cook

British sisters Louise and Ida Cook rescued Jews from the Nazis during the 1930s. The sisters helped people escape, funded mainly by Ida's writing, (a romance novelist as Mary Burchell).

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Rudolf Hoess, former Auschwitz Commandant, Testifying at Nuremberg Trial, April 15, 1946)

Rudolf Hoess, former Auschwitz Commandant, Testifying at Nuremberg Trial, April 15, 1946

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Dachau and Yad Vashem

Dachau, Munich Area, Germany: The barracks and lavatories were drab grays and browns, concrete and bricks, lifeless, seemingly unfit for human use. One could still run fingers over the “ovens” and…

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