Holocaust

• Mauthausen

  Dawn breaks over the hills of Austria, but there is no comfort in the light. At Mauthausen the air tastes of smoke, sweat, and fear, and even the birds seem to avoid the sky above the camp. A train rattles into the station, disgorging

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• "All My Mothers" - the Story of Yehudith Kleinman

  Yehudith Kleinman was a young Italian Jewish girl born in Venice in 1939 and raised in Milan in the northern part of the Italian Peninsula. She recalls enjoying a carefree childhood, vividly describing a special bond with her mother

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• Auschwitz Survivor Returns to Birkenau

  It is important to remember the suffering that others have gone through in the past to avoid doing the same in the future.  In this video Mrs. Hoffman, a survivor of Auschwitz, tells her story of what she experienced during the horrors

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• Box Car

  How did the Nazis transport people to the death camps? They used railroad Box Cars, which were essentially freight cars that trains used to transport cargo. These cars had no ventilation and no sanitation facilities.

• British Schindler Nicholas Winton Dies at 106-2

  Most of us have heard of Oscar Schindler, especially because of the movie Schindler's List.

• Buchenwald

  This video shows you just some of the horrors of the Holocaust that certain people would like to deny or claim wasn’t really as bad as it was. The Buchenwald concentration camp may not be as well-known as some of the others but it was

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• Celebration of the 70th Anniversary of the Liberation of Auschwitz

  On January 27, 2015, the free world celebrated the 70th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz by the Soviet army.

• Child Holocaust Survivor Describes Rescue by Righteous Among the Nations

  Lea Paz, née Weitzner, was born in 1930 in Lwow. This is her story.

• Christian Teacher Saving Lives of Jews in the Holocaust

  The place was Budapest Hungary, in 1938. Jewish people were rounded up like sheep to the slaughter for the capital crime of being Jewish. Millions were executed in Nazi concentration camps. This was better known as the Holocaust.

• Concentration Camps

  The air still carries the weight of smoke, though decades have passed. In the forests near Sobibor, the soil remembers the hurried graves, the thin earth pressed down over bodies stacked like firewood. The trees lean inward, as if

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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 through the ashes, and gaze

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• Dear Mirele - A letter of the Holocaust From a Mother to a Daughter

  This is a heartwarming letter written by a mother to her daughter at the height of the Holocaust.

• Did Jews Fight the Nazis During WWII?

  Did Jews go like sheep to the slaughter during World War II?

• Does Nothing Remain? Holocaust Survivors' First Moments of Liberation

  In this video Dr. Na’ama Shik provides an introduction to the complexity of liberation and the physical and emotional state of the survivors during the early days following the horrific atrocities.

• Dr Michal Majercik

  Janka-Hetty Fisch of Bratislava was seven years old in 1939 when Slovakia became an "independent" state under the patronage of Nazi Germany. Numerous anti-Jewish decrees were imposed on the Jewish community. Her family was evicted from

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• Everyday Life in the Ghettos

  What was it like for the Jewish people who were forced into ghettos by the Nazis?

• Execution of Nazi Frankenstein Josef Blosche

  A most famous picture from the Holocaust is that of a young boy with his hands raised while a Nazi guard points a rifle at the boy.

• Georges Dilsizian

  Georges Dilsizian fled to France in the end of the 19th Century because of the Turkish persecution of the Armenians. He got married and had thirteen children. His son André married Lea Albohair, whose Jewish family had immigrated to

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• Glimpses of Jewish Life Before the Holocaust

  What was life like in Jewish communities in Europe before the Holocaust?

• Helena Sitkowska

  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 led a rather comfortable life but

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