Thousands of young European Jews applied to Hebrew University in the 1930s and 1940s in hopes that acceptance would entitle them to a permit to move to pre-state Israel, then controlled by the British, and thereby save their lives
Italy's Racial Laws took effect 80 years ago, but Italy still hasn’t faced its fascist past, says Liliana Segre, the Holocaust survivor turned senator
It took Austrian-born essayist Jean Améry 20 years until he was able to write about the torture he underwent at the hands of the Gestapo. Today, 40 years after his suicide, his insight is still relevant
Our political culture insists on seeing the Jews as the direct descendants of the ancient Hebrews. But the Jews never existed as a ‘people’ – still less as a nation
Behind the president and ordinary citizens marched thousands of nationalists carrying horrifying symbols in the largest public event since the fall of communism in 1989
'I was too frightened to protest,' the 94-year-old defendant claims during his trial in response to accusations he was accessory to the murder of hundreds
Justin Trudeau apologized last week for the Canadian government's failure in 1939 to admit a ship carrying 907 German Jews fleeing Nazi persecution - and took a swipe at BDS
'I don't know if that's gallows humor or just like 'it's funny because it's true' humor,' Sarah Silverman said on Bill Maher's HBO show
The saga of the ship of Jews fleeing Nazi Europe in 1939, which was turned away and sent back by Cuba and the U.S., is a cautionary tale about refugees – and a reminder that history doesn’t forget countries with immoral policies and cynical interests
The French president himself has advanced the recognition of France’s complicity in the Holocaust – but his desire to honor Petain demonstrates the fragility of that process. France's WWII and colonial era crimes remain a taboo and a threat to a still infantile national identity