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A video still from "The Lemberg Machine," 2023.
Ukraine
New film tackles Ukraine’s role in the Holocaust
Visitors look at the Chinese military's KJ-500 airborne early warning and control aircraft during 13th China International Aviation and Aerospace Exhibition, also known as Airshow China 2021, in Zhuhai in southern China's Guangdong province
Top of The World
Why China’s air force is provoking Taiwan
The entrance gate at the Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz-Birkenau with an iron sign over the gate that reads "work makes one free."
COVID-19
Germany to give $662 million in aid to Holocaust survivors
James Smurthwaite stands next to the obituary sign he made to honor his late neighbor Eugene Deutsch. 
A Paris neighborhood honors 92-year-old Holocaust survivor who died after COVID-19 bout
Anthony Acevedo wearing a POW hat
Conflict
This POW kept a secret diary that showed daily life in a concentration camp
Arts, Culture & Media
Charlotte Salomon
Arts, Culture & Media
Mirroring Evil
Arts, Culture & Media
Author Ron Rosenbaum on Art and the Holocaust
Arts, Culture & Media
Miriam Katin
Dutch Minister of Education Ronald Plasterk looks at a facsimile of Anne Frank's dairy after a news conference in Amsterdam in 2009.
Culture
Who betrayed Anne Frank?
Hana, as a young girl in Prague, is surrounded by her mother, grandmother and great grandmother
Culture
Why telling my grandmother’s story helped me better understand today’s refugees
Jews digging a trench in Ponar forest, in which they were later buried, after being shot
Culture
Science confirms the incredible story of Lithuania’s Holocaust escape tunnel
Mizgin, a Syrian refugee from Aleppo, and her family are living with Rachel Miller's family for the year.
Conflict
For this Syrian Yazidi family and their Jewish hosts, Passover is a refugee story
Visitors to the new Space of Synagogues memorial place stones in remembrance of the dead in Lviv, Ukraine on Sept. 4.
Culture
Why Ukraine’s newest Holocaust memorial is so important
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Global Politics
Policing the language of the Holocaust in Poland
Deportation stamps used by the German federal police "Bundespolizei" to stamp ID documents of rejected asylum seekers, in Rosenheim, southern Germany.
Global Politics
In Germany, mass deportation is a touchy subject
Mendy Cahan in his library, Yung YiDish, at Tel Aviv's Central Bus Station.
Culture
He calls Yiddish a language of life — so translating Oscar-winner ‘Son of Saul’ was an especially dark experience
Leo Goldberger and his family came from Czechoslovakia, but they moved to Denmark before World War II. That decision was the reason they escaped the Holocaust.
Global Politics
Danes helped him escape the Holocaust. Today, he says Denmark should do more for refugees.
(Center Front) Mirjam Geismar de Zoete; (Center Left) father Chaim de Zoete, with daughter Judith; (Center Right) mother Sophia de Zoete, with daughter Hadassah.
Conflict
This Jewish couple survived the Holocaust hidden behind a church organ. Their daughter — also in hiding — had no idea.
Gaming the System, Torching Churches, Distorting History
Full Episode
Eva Kor, a survivor of Auschwitz, regularly returns to the site of the camp
Justice
Why the Holocaust survivor forgave the ‘bookkeeper of Auschwitz’
Elena Narbutaitė, Menachem Kaiser and Jake Levine, October 15, 2010, preparing bagels for the first public bagel party and presentation of the Vilnius Bagel Project. Yalta Restaurant kitchen, Vilnius, Lithuania.
Food
Bagels disappeared from Lithuania after WWII … but now they’re back
Egg salad for Passover in Drohobych, Ukraine. Loli Kantor remembers this method of cutting an egg in the palm of your hand from her youth. It's part of the Jewish life that she documented in Ukraine.
Belief
The conflict in Ukraine has led to a Golden Age for Jews — though some are still leaving
Survivors attend a ceremony on the site of the former Nazi German concentration and extermination camp Auschwitz-Birkenau in Poland. Tuesday marked the 70th anniversary of the Nazi camp's liberation by Allied soldiers.
Justice
Why I want to remind you of the Holocaust
The barbed wire fence surrounding the labor camp at Auschwitz I. Johann Breyer says that he worked here as a guard during World War II and not at the nearby gas chambers at Auschwitz-Birkenau.
Conflict & Justice
After years in obscurity, a Philadelphia man stands accused as a Holocaust collaborator
American Studies professor Mohammed Dajani took a group of Palestinian students on a trip to Auschwitz in March, 2014.
Global Politics
It may be taboo, but some Palestinians are rethinking their views toward the Holocaust
Ela Weissberger speaks with the cast members of Brundibar at the Central Square Theater in Cambridge, MA.
Arts, Culture & Media
Seventy years later, a Holocaust survivor remembers the performance of her lifetime
Ela Weissberger speaks with the cast members of Brundibar at the Central Square Theater in Cambridge, MA.
Arts, Culture & Media
Seventy years later, a Holocaust survivor remembers the performance of her lifetime
Israeli protester
Conflict & Justice
Israel considers banning its citizens from calling each other Nazis
Iran's President Hassan Rouhani waiting to address the 68th United Nations General Assembly at UN headquarters in New York, Tuesday.
Global Politics
Netanyahu calls Iranian president a ‘wolf in sheep’s clothing’
Arts, Culture & Media
‘Never Forget To Lie’: How Filmmaker Marian Marzynski survived the Holocaust as a Child
Olwethu, a 9th grader, tells the school what she learned at the Holocaust Museum.
Development & Education
School Year Blog: It’s Okay to be Gay, and Other Lessons from a Holocaust Museum