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History | History
The Youngest Holocaust Survivor
Erika Nissanoff was born on October 17, 1944 in a Nazi hospital in Austria. Her miraculous birth and survival is a harrowing story that everyone should hear.
Politics | Opinion
‘Holocaust and Genocide’ Centers: A Requiem
There’s an easy way to fix the problems that Holocaust and Genocide centers around the country are facing: Drop the “and Genocide” part. You can have a Holocaust center or
News | Antisemitism Watch
Elder Of Ziyon - I really don't like Nazi analogies, but..it sure feels like 1935
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History | History
Jewish resistance in Holocaust shown in 'Resistance – They Fought Back'
Paula Apsell’s new film tells the stories of Jews who fought back in the Shoah.
Miscellaneous | Jewish Life
An Israeli survivor of the Holocaust and Oct. 7 says after the recent atrocities, we ‘held our heads high’
Penina Ben Yosef escaped the Nazis in Poland and was a founder of Kfar Maimon, where she found herself sheltering as Hamas terrorists and IDF soldiers battled right outside
Politics | Opinion
Yom Hashoah after Oct. 7: How Holocaust education failed
A generation of young Americans was taught to universalize the Nazi war on the Jews, leaving them vulnerable to being seduced by antisemitism and woke lies about Israel.
News | Israel & The Jewish Community
Never again?
The obligatory Holocaust Remembrance Day mantra rings hollow in the wake of the Oct. 7 massacre.
History | History
Some Facts About the Holocaust for Those Just Learning
Between the years 1938 and 1945 the German Nazis and their willing collaborators murdered 6 million Jews and millions of others.
History | History
Elder Of Ziyon - Prayer before eating bread on Passover, Bergen-Belsen, 1944
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Politics | Media Bias
Yikes! Sky News Anchor Dubs the Holocaust a 'Voluntary Relocation'
This is truly unbelievable. A 'Sky News' anchor called the Holocaust an 'voluntary relocation'. What?
News | News
'When infants are murdered - that's a Holocaust'
Ruth Haran, who survived both the Holocaust and the October 7th massacre, leads viewers on a chilling journey showing the similarities between the two.
Politics | Opinion
Stop exploiting the Holocaust as a weapon against Israel
Since October, many non-governmental organizations (NGOs) have distorted the memory of the Holocaust to wage political and economic war on Israel, thereby diminishing the scale and severity of the atrocities that were carried out by Nazi Germany.
Miscellaneous | Jewish Life
New Report Reveals Global Landscape Of Holocaust Survivors
According to the report, 48.7 percent of the total survivor population, totaling approximately 119,300 individuals, currently reside in Israel
News | Antisemitism Watch
'Hide Under the Bed': How Hamas Made a High Schooler's Holocaust Education Trip Unnecessary
Ola Metzger, 45, had planned to send her daughter on a Holocaust education trip to Poland. But on Oct. 7, days before the trip was to depart, a holocaust came to them.
News | Antisemitism Watch
The disturbing rebirth of Holocaust denial
Surveys suggest ever growing numbers of young people think the historical slaughter of six million Jews is a myth. This is deeply disturbing
Politics | The Hall of Idiots
20% of Young Americans Think Holocaust Is a Myth
One in five young Americans say that the Holocaust is a myth, according to a poll released Thursday, and around 30 percent express anti-Semitic views.
News | Articles By Me
Joshua Namm: Would They Tear Down Anne Frank Too?
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News | Antisemitism
Germany Earns The Ultimate Facepalm: Anne Frank Daycare Center To Be Renamed
The explosion of overt antisemitism in recent weeks has been disturbing to see no matter where it takes place. We live in the United States, so we're most horrified about it here, but scenes from London, Australia, and elsewhere are equally concerning. This is not the way a society behaves ... at least if it wants to survive.
History | History
Israelis Commemorate Exodus 1947, The ‘ship That Launched A Nation’
On July 18, 1947, some 4,550 refugees - survivors of the Holocaust - set off across the Mediterranean Sea, just two years removed from the destruction of Europe - Click the link for more details.
History | History
'Exodus' immigrant's diary shows hardships of post-Shoah refugees
Miriam Sternberg Wechsler was 19 when she boarded the ship alone.
History | History
Elder Of Ziyon - interesting example of Nazi propaganda in the US in 1933
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Politics | Biden Administration/Congress
ZOA to Biden: rescind ‘horrific, frightening’ Holocaust Museum council appointments
Leaders of anti-Israel groups don’t belong at the helm of a museum, whose founding principles call for “support for a Jewish homeland,” according to Zionist Organization of America.
News | Antisemitism Watch
Polish government denounced over ‘dangerous' attack on Holocaust scholar
Barbara Engelking said Poles ‘failed’ Jews during the Second World War
Miscellaneous | Miscellaneous
Elder Of Ziyon - How many could have been saved if Israel was reborn in 1938 instead of 1948?
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Miscellaneous | Jewish Life
Elder Of Ziyon - A way to remember the victims of the Shoah
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History | History
Escape From the Nazis - Against All Odds, a Treasure Survives - Chabad.org
On Kristallnacht, the family hid in their apartment with all the lights out and the windows shut. The children peered through the edges of the curtains and watched the Nazis storm into the small synagogue below their apartment and throw the Torah scrolls
News | Israel & The Jewish Community
Israel Capitulates to Poland’s Demands to Expose Jewish Children to Holocaust Denial
This is the second attempt of a Netanyahu government to help erase Poland’s participation in the mass murder of Jews.
News | News
Ben Ferencz, last surviving Nuremberg prosecutor, passes away at 103
Ferencz, a Jew who grew up in New York, was able to present the entirety of his case in just two court sessions. All defendants were found guilty.
History | History
Misconceptions about Warsaw Ghetto Uprising abound, says historian Zachary Mazur
Ahead of a lecture commemorating the 80th anniversary of the uprising, Mazur told JNS that “there is plenty of ignorance” about the uprising and its context.
News | News
Elder Of Ziyon - New AJC survey: 11% of young Americans think Jews caused the Holocaust; US Jews are hiding their Jewishness (video)
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News | Antisemitism Watch
American Bar Association removes reference to IHRA in resolution
This revision of the resolution is a result of a major campaign waged by extremist anti-Israel groups, incl. Human Rights Watch (HRW), Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP) and others.
Politics | Media Bias
Noam Blum buries the Courier Journal for their ridiculous Holocaust Remembrance Day article
A Courier Journal opinion piece said 'Jews do not have a monopoly on persecution and atrocities' in an article about Holocaust Remembrance Day.
News | News
Almost A Quarter of Dutch Millennials Believe Holocaust is Myth: New Survey Elicits Shock In Netherlands
A street in Amsterdam, Photo: Wikimedia Commons. Dutch Justice Minister Dilan Yeşilgöz led a chorus of outrage Wednesday over a …
News | News
AJC survey: Half of Americans don’t know how many Jews died in the Holocaust
Those with more years of school tend to know more about the Shoah.
History | History
New exhibit on DP camps showcases ‘extraordinary energy’ of the Jewish people
“You see this extraordinary power of their will to live, to create a future for their children and themselves that is connected to their heritage to their traditions,” said Jonathan Brent, YIVO CEO and executive director, of the exhibit at United Nations
Politics | Biden Administration/Congress
Where’s the outrage over Biden comparing illegal immigrants to Holocaust victims?
Millions of economic migrants crossing the U.S. southern border want a better life. But most are neither refugees nor analogous to Jews fleeing Nazi slaughter.
Miscellaneous | Jewish Life
Elder Of Ziyon - Large cache of Jewish objects hidden by Jews in Lodz in 1939 unearthed (lots of photos)
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History | History
'The great unpunishment': How, why so many Holocaust perpetrators got away with it
Fewer than 600 of those who enacted the Holocaust received heavy sentences after WWII. David Wilkinson's docu explores how the mass of Nazi criminals, collaborators escaped justice
News | News
Holocaust survivor, among last prisoners of Auschwitz, passes away
Mordechai Papirblat was a prisoner who worked in hard labor for a period of about 900 days until he managed to escape from a death march at the end of January 1945.
News | Antisemitism Watch
How German It Is: Sentences Suspended for Tormenting a Young Jewish Man
The defendants insisted that the assault had been "light-hearted."
Miscellaneous | Resources
The Evil of Holocaust Denial | PragerU
Why would anyone deny the single most documented genocide in history? This week, Dennis responds to strong opposition he received from his recent column, If…
History | History
The whole truth about Ukraine’s past matters
Kyiv is right to ask that Stalin’s terror famine be recognized as genocide. But it should be equally honest about those who collaborated with Hitler.
History | History
Chilling, newly discovered photos show Nazi Kristallnacht up close
Yad Vashem says images are first to show pogrom from indoor vantage point; indicate German public was aware and that violence was coordinated by authorities
Politics | Opinion
The Holocaust Is Not Your Metaphor
"A production of Romeo and Juliet for non-binary performers"
History | History
Peter Bergson - The Unintended Hero of the Holocaust Era
Saving 200,000 European Jews.
History | History
How Ken Burns Misuses the Holocaust
Ken Burns’s documentaries blend striking visuals of still photos or archival film with colorful and often insightful analysis and narration. But his skill as
Miscellaneous | Jewish Life
Torah scroll in memory of the million and a half children killed in the Holocaust
The woman whose three siblings were murdered in the Holocaust is going on a mission to memorialize them
History | History
Auschwitz Was Not Bombed Because the World Didn’t Care
The sign “Arbeit macht frei” (“Work makes you free”) is pictured at the main gate of the former Nazi concentration …
History | History
The first Jew to escape Auschwitz helped save 200,000 lives -- but few know his name
Rudolf Vrba should be celebrated for his role in preventing the deportation of many of Budapest's Jews, says UK author Jonathan Freedland in his new book, 'The Escape Artist'
Miscellaneous | Other Stuff
Historian: Ken Burns Holocaust Documentary on PBS Whitewashes FDR
Holocaust scholar Rafael Medoff says Ken Burns's new documentary, "The U.S. and the Holocaust," whitewashes FDR's record on saving Jews.
Miscellaneous | Miscellaneous
America’s Holocaust failure through the lens of 21st-century politics
Ken Burns’s new documentary focuses on immigration law and anti-Semitism in ways that both illuminate and distort the lessons of history while largely giving a pass to FDR.
History | History
American filmmaker Ken Burns has a Palestine problem
Why is Burns trying to disqualify Palestine from the conversation? Why resort to a technicality about sovereignty in order to try to push Palestine out of the discussion?
News | News
Inseparable to the last: Sisters who survived Holocaust, moved to US, die days apart
Ruth Scheuer Siegler and Ilse Scheuer Nathan, who said they helped each other survive Nazi camp, are remembered for remaining inseparable throughout their lives
News | News
Has Wolf Blitzer’s father just pulled the rug out from under filmmaker Ken Burns?
Wolf Blitzer's father and the bombing of Auschwitz. Op-ed.
News | Israel & The Jewish Community
Mass grave holding ashes of 8,000 Nazi victims discovered in Polish forest
Special investigators in Poland say they have found two mass graves containing the ashes of at least 8,000 Poles
News | News
AI identifies rocker Geddy Lee’s mother in Holocaust photos
Google engineer develops algorithm to identify lost faces in WWII photos as part of Numbers to Names project
History | History
Elder Of Ziyon - Three minutes of color film footage of the Jews of Nasielsk, Poland, on the eve of the Holocaust
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History | History
Elder Of Ziyon - Arabs admired Nazi Germany - not in spite of genocide but because of it
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History | History
Elder Of Ziyon - The Holocaust was well documented even by 1943, but the world didn't care
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Politics | Opinion
What have we really learned from Yom Ha’Shoah? | Israel National News
Yom Ha’Shoah comes to teach, to remind, to educate and to wake up a sleeping nation. Even in Israel, a major wake-up call is needed.Opinion.
History | History
We're all obligated to remember the victims of the Holocaust
"Dear Berthe, this is already the fourth day. I am on the train car now. I hope, my child,
News | Israel & The Jewish Community
Global Jewish Population Not Yet Recovered From WWII, According to Israeli Data
Thousands of runners take part in the 2018 Jerusalem Marathon on March 9, 2018. Photo: Yonatan Sindel / Flash90. JNS.org …
News | Israel & The Jewish Community
96-year-old Holocaust survivor killed in Russian shelling of Kharkiv
Boris Romantschenko, who was not Jewish, survived four concentration camps including Bergen-Belsen and Buchenwald
News | Israel & The Jewish Community
Thanks, Whoopi! Why Holocaust Education Is mostly counter-productive
Shoah education proposes that Jews are easiest to murder without payback, and it makes Jewish youngsters want to escape that fate. Op-ed.
History | History
How the Science of Racism Led to the Holocaust - The war against the divine image in man
Can the world survive on ethics devised by human reason? Well, we tried. It’s called the 20th century.
News | NEWS
88-Year-Old Holocaust Survivor Challenges ‘The View’ After Whoopi’s Comments: Put Me On The Show
On Monday evening, prompted by ABC’s “The View” co-host Whoopi Goldberg making harshly insensitive comments about the Holocaust in which she insisted, “It’s not about race. It’s not about race. … It’s about man’s inhumanity to man. That’s what it’s about. … These are two white groups of people,” an 88-year-old Holocaust survivor tweeted a message to “The View” challenging them to have her on the show.
News | JEWISH COMMUNITY
'Shema Yisrael' pendants discovered in Sobibor Excavations
The pendants were uncovered in areas where victims were forced to undress before being herded into the gas chambers and near one of the mass graves.
History | HISTORY
Wannsee Conference: The most shameful document of modern history
The Wannsee Conference of January 20, 1942, was not about consumer trends, projected profits or shareholder value, it was about life and death. Specifically, systematic death.
News | News
‘Nothing Compares to This’: Survivors Denounce Online ‘Trivialization’ of Holocaust Found in Study
Dutch vaccine refusal activists are seen wearing images and clothing associated with the Nazi Holocaust at a demonstration. Photo: CIDI. …
News | Israel & The Jewish Community
The First Lesson of the Holocaust: The Jewish People Will Never Allow Anyone to Do This to Us Again
Iran parades missiles with the words: “Israel must be wiped off the map.” - The First Lesson of the Holocaust: The Jewish People Will Never Allow Anyone to Do This to Us Again
News | NEWS
‘Poland Cannot Hide The Truth:’ Anger Among Jewish Leaders as Warsaw Court Orders Holocaust Scholars to Apologize for Alleged Libel
Spectators attend a commemorative ceremony to mark the 80th anniversary of the outbreak of World War Two in Warsaw, Poland …
History | History
The Jews who fought back during the Holocaust
Our communal sense of history and peoplehood give us the strength to continue while our enemies fall by the wayside. Op-ed.
Politics | Politics
Sheldon Schreter - The Shoah and the Creation of the State of Israel
Sheldon Schreter – The Shoah and the Creation of the State of Israel Many Jews and non-Jews, both friends and enemies of Israel, assume that Israel was founded as a result of the Shoah of European Jewry. While the Shoah was indisputably an important
History | History
Obituary: Moshe Taube, renowned cantor and Schindler’s list survivor
Squirrel Hill resident was a ‘giant in the community,’ a leading cantor and prominent witness to Holocaust
News | Israel & The Jewish Community
Study: More than one in 10 Americans under 40 thinks Jews caused the Holocaust
Holocaust knowledge particularly low in New York, despite state having the largest population of Jews in the US
News | Israel & The Jewish Community
Fountain dedicated to Holocaust survivors vandalized at Santa Rosa cemetery
Antisemitism, antisemitc incidents and Anti-Zionism anti-semitism anti-semitc
History | HISTORY
In eastern Europe, when Nazis killed Jews, a 'carnival atmosphere' prevailed
In a new, second book about ‘Holocaust by bullets,’ Father Patrick Desbois depicts in grim detail local bystanders' culpability while Nazis implemented the Final Solution
History | History
Twin sisters were liberated from Auschwitz, but not from Mengele
The experiments to which Yehudit and Lea Csengeri were subjected to by Dr. Josef Mengele have made them afraid of doctors to this day
History | History
Why the Bombing Auschwitz Argument Still Matters
The Allies’ refusal to devote sufficient resources to rescue and halt the Nazi murder factory is one more reason why a sovereign State of Israel is necessary.
News | Israel & The Jewish Community
Last Auschwitz survivors speak: 'We haven't won, but we've taught our grandkids'
Heart-wrenching testimonies from survivors living in Israel, as the Jewish state prepares to host world leaders on the 75th anniversary of the death camp's liberation
News | Israel & The Jewish Community
Auschwitz Memorial Twitter account minimizes Polish complicity for the Holocaust
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News | Israel & The Jewish Community
Poland Asks Netflix to Make Changes to Documentary About Nazi Death Camp Guard
Convicted Nazi death camp guard John Demjanjuk leaves a courtroom in Munich after the verdict in his case, May 12, …
Miscellaneous | Judaism
A Psychotherapist’s Shema in Auschwitz - Vaetchanan
What is it about the Shema Yisroel prayer that has inspired so many through the most trying of times and has provided such meaning and purpose to help us survive even the most despairing circumstances?
History | History
Holocaust survivor owes her life to a Nazi officer’s Great Dane
Nina Dinar, 93, has loved dogs since childhood and that saved her in a Nazi labor camp in Poland
Politics | Politics
Milano Comes Under Fire After Comparing Pence to Himmler
Actress Alyssa Milano came under fire on Sunday after comparing Vice President Mike Pence to the architect of the Holocaust, Heinrich Himmler, with side-by-side pictures on Twitter.
Politics | POLITICS
Holocaust survivor: AOC 'should be removed from Congress'
93-year-old Holocaust survivor Ed Mosberg has no time for Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s statements last week, when she called the southern border’s migrant detention centers “concentration camps.”
News | Israel & The Jewish Community
The Long Legacy of the Shoah in Scandinavia – Tablet Magazine
Within the Northern European countries that make up Scandinavia there has been a revival of active scholarship and popular interest into the treatment of Jews during World War II. The subject is very much alive in these countries and much more so than in
Politics | Politics
MENKEN: AOC Is Dividing Americans And Inciting Anti-Semitism
After Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) used “concentration camps” and “Never Again” together — a unique reference to the Nazi death camps — and then retweeted leftist Jews hoping to justify the linkage while she simultaneously denied that she ever connected them in the first instance, I honestly thought it couldn’t get worse.
Politics | Politics
Concentration Camps? Stop Hijacking Jewish History | The Jerusalem post
US media has now joined the debate about concentration camps.
Politics | The "Squad"
Rashida Tlaib slammed by House GOP over statement that Holocaust gives her 'kind of a calming feeling'
House Republican leaders called on House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., to "take action" against Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., Sunday after Tlaib said that thinking about the Holocaust gave her "kind of a calming feeling."
News | Pallywood
Palestinian Television Claims Images of Holocaust Victims Show Arabs Killed by Jews
A composite image of victims at the Nazi concentration camp of Nordhausen (right) and the same image broadcast by Palestinian …
News | Israel & The Jewish Community
On Yom Hashoah - look for YOUR name in the Yad Vashem database, and light a candle for you
To make the Shoah a little more real for you, look up your (Hebrew) name in the Yad Vashem database of Jews murdered in the Holocaust.
News | Israel & The Jewish Community
Passover Seder to be held in Warsaw Ghetto for first time in 76 years | The Jerusalem post
Before the Holocaust, approximately one-third of Warsaw was Jewish.
News | Israel & The Jewish Community
Study Shows a Third of Americans Think Holocaust Murders Exaggerated
The “Hall of Names” commemorating victims of the Holocaust at Yad Vashem in Jerusalem. Photo: David Shankbone via Wikimedia Commons. …
News | Israel & The Jewish Community
Allies knew of Holocaust in 1942, 2 years before previously assumed, UN documents prove | The Times of Israel
UK, US, Russia were aware of millions killed by Nazis, new book says, shedding damning light on refusal to take in refugees or try to halt slaughter
History | History
‘The Invisibles’ Tells the Amazing Tale of Four Holocaust Survivors
A scene from “The Invisibles.” Photo: Courtesy of Greenwich Entertainment. When death knocked at her door, Hanni Weissenberg refused to …
News | Israel & The Jewish Community
Outrage ensues over sausage-museum, hotel and theater plans at site of Buchenwald
Rikola-Gunnar Luettgenau of the Buchenwald memorial foundation said this plan shows a “lack of sensitivity” and a “lack of historical awareness.”
Music | Music
Facebook teams up with Yad Vashem to commemorate Shoah victims online
New project lets online users be randomly matched to one of the 4,800,000 names recorded in Yad Vashem’s central database of Shoah victims.
News | Israel & The Jewish Community
The possibility of a new Holocaust with the reincarnation of antisemitism
The era of “never again” is ending in Western Europe, fading in North America and never penetrated the Middle East.
History | History
When Jews caught “Syndrome K,” the Nazis wanted NOTHING to do with them
Jewish lives were saved in World War II due to a brilliant plan by Professor Giovanni Borremeo. "The lessons of my experience were that we have to act not for the sake of self-interest, but for principles." - Dr. Adriano Ossicini, inventor of Sy
News | Israel & The Jewish Community
Steven Spielberg urges mandatory Holocaust education
Director, actors, recall filming ‘Schindler’s List’ at special 25th anniversary screening
History | HISTORY
Why this Holocaust survivor still wears his concentration camp uniform | New York Post
Ed Mosberg’s hands stay steady as he slips into the striped cotton jacket and matching cap — an outfit identical to one he was issued 75 years ago, as a...
News | Israel & The Jewish Community
102-year-old Holocaust survivor reunites with newly discovered nephew | The Times of Israel
Eliahu Pietruszka believed his brother, who escaped Warsaw ghetto, had died in a Russian labor camp, but, generations later, a Yad Vashem genealogy project led to incredible news
History | History
Auschwitz-Birkenau: 4 out of 10 German students don′t know what it was | News | DW | 28.09.2017
Just 47 percent of 14- to 16-year-olds in Germany know that Auschwitz-Birkenau was a Nazi death camp, a survey shows. Its authors cite fewer history lessons as a reason.
History | History
Reconstructed Auschwitz prisoner text details ′unimaginable′ suffering | Germany | DW | 09.10.2017
A newly reconstructed document written in 1944 by a Greek Jewish prisoner at Auschwitz tells of misery "the human mind can not imagine." The text was discovered buried in the ground at the Nazi extermination camp.
History | History
The Holocaust's Great Escape | History | Smithsonian
A remarkable discovery in Lithuania brings a legendary tale of survival back to life
News | Interesting Stories
The Holocaust Just Got More Shocking - The New York Times
The Germans had vastly more work camps and ghettos than anyone knew.
Miscellaneous | Other Stuff
Charles Krauthammer: The Holocaust and American Jews - NY Daily News
Bernie Sanders is the most successful Jewish candidate for the presidency ever.
History | History
The BBC Flew A Drone Over Auschwitz. What They Caught On Film Sent Chills Down My Spine | Greenville Gazette
Recently, a drone flown by the BBC was flown over the remains of Auschwitz. This was one of the most infamous concentration camps from WWII and the release of the footage is timely, as the
Miscellaneous | Jewish
The indelible mark on the Jewish people - Blogs - Jerusalem Post
Yad Vashem, our constant reminder. From year to year, the hard to describe events of the Holocaust are distancing from the present. The people who survived the Concentration Camps, the Crematoria and the unimaginable atrocities, are in the process of leaving this world to take their place next to the Almighty’s heavens.
News | News
SS 'accountant of Auschwitz' going on trial in Germany | The Times of Israel
Oskar Groening, 93, recalls the 'atrocities,' admits feeling they were 'necessary,' and now faces 300,000 counts of accessory to murder
History | History
Holocaust survivor and American rescuer have touching reunion after 70 years
Jewish Scene: Images capture emotional moment as former Dachau prisoner salutes soldier who liberated him; 'I am eternally grateful.'
News | NEWS
Holocaust survivor ADOPTS the grandson of Nazi commandant Rudolf Hoess seventy years after he murdered her parents and s
Eva Mozes Kor, 80, who lives in Indiana in the US, has found the compassion to forgive her Nazi tormentors - and has even unofficially adopted the grandson of Auschwitz commander Rudolf Hoess.
History | History
Auschwitz prisoner No. A7733 finally finds his family - Israel Jewish Scene, Ynetnews
Jewish Scene: Menachem Bodner, a twin survivor of the Mengele experiments, lost his entire family when he was just a little boy. He is still searching for his twin brother, but recently found his first cousins in California thanks to a persistent genealo