Filmed in Auschwitz With Former Prisoners, First Holocaust Feature Film Was a Feminist Triumph

Centering around the story of a real Jewish heroine, the first ever Holocaust feature film was a revolutionary female-led experiment. 'They did everything automatically, as returning prisoners. It was frightening'

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

‘Not Everyone Believes Holocaust Happened,’ Florida High School Principal Says

When confronted on comment by a parent, William Latson doubled down, saying: 'You have your thoughts, but we are a public school and not all of our parents have the same beliefs'

Hundreds of Scholars Criticize D.C. Holocaust Museum's Stance on Concentration Camps Comparison

The Holocaust museum's position that nothing can be compared to the Holocaust, including Trump's border facilities to concentration camps, 'makes learning from the past almost impossible,' open letter says

77 Years After He Was Killed by Nazis, 'ultra-Orthodox Janusz Korczak’ Honored in Krakow

Rabbi Dawid Alter Kurzmann now has a plaque to commemorate his accompanying of the orphans under his care to their deaths during the Holocaust

After the War We'll Go Ice-skating Together: Anne Frank's Letters to Grandma

Correspondence, published for the first time in a new book of complete writings, sheds additional light on the life of the young diarist whose life was cut short by the Nazis

62 Years On, Why Is Shin Bet Still Hiding Details on Israel Kastner's Murder?

‘National security and a lack of resources’ is the official explanation for curtailing information about death of Israeli journalist accused of collaboration with the Nazis – but a Holocaust historian is petitioning the High Court to open the archives

Opinion Poland's Militant Nationalists Are Targeting Holocaust Scholars, With Help From an Israeli Historian

Nationalist Poland's 'official history' of the Holocaust is based on the myth of Polish national innocence - and the state and its proxies have mobilized a brutal, relentless attack on independent scholars who challenge their lies

Opinion The Holocaust’s Evasive History in Both Poland and Israel

A Former Nazi Labor Camp in Austria, Now Billed as a Tourist Site

Novelist Raphaela Edelbauer has been exploring the history of the camp at a former gypsum mine. It reflects a culture of denial

From New Technology to Resurgent Nationalism: The Future of Holocaust Studies

Leading scholars identify the key trends shaping the field’s future in an age of Holocaust deniers and revisionists — while a Shoah sage offers invaluable advice to students to the next generation

Opinion How We've Suppressed the Queer History of the Holocaust

Even in the Nazi camps, homophobia 'helped' inmates distance themselves from those considered 'other.' Even today, Jewish gay and lesbian victims are still erased from how we talk about the Holocaust

When Did the Holocaust Begin? A Genesis of Genocide

The Holocaust was the single-most traumatic event for the Jewish people in the 20th century, but there is some disagreement over the exact date on which it started.

Holocaust Rescues: Countries and Communities That Prominently Resisted Nazi Efforts to Deport Their Jews

From Italy to Denmark to Albania, a look at those countries which helped rescue victims of the Holocaust

Opinion Give Everyone a Break With the Holocaust

Opinion Divergent Lessons of the Holocaust Widen the Gap Between Israel and American Jews

In the age of Donald Trump, American Jews increasingly identify with persecuted minorities – while Israelis see them as a threat

The Truth About 'Hitler's Pope': Holocaust-era Archive May Answer 75-year-old Question

Pius XII has been criticized for apparently doing little to stop Nazi crimes, but researchers hope archives being opened next year confirm or disprove indirect attempts to help Jews and condemn Germany

Opinion Yes, Poles Imbibed anti-Semitism With Their Mothers’ Milk

A vast majority of Poles and others remain haters of the Jewish people, but some Israeli politicians, diplomats and Holocaust researchers are foolishly saying they’re shocked by this ‘generalization’

Opinion Polish Honor and Israeli Hypocrisy

Israelis are demanding that Poland acknowledge that the Polish nation colluded with the Nazis in the murder of the Jews. This will never happen because it simply isn’t true

Finnish Soldiers Participated in Mass Murders of Jews During World War II, Report Finds

Report initiated after request by Nazi hunter Efraim Zuroff concludes that 1,408 Finns volunteered in the Nazi division and took part in massacres of 10,000 people

The Woman Accusing Her Lithuanian ‘Hero’ Grandfather of Mass Murder in the Holocaust

American Silvia Foti grew up on stories about Jonas Noreika’s anti-Communist exploits. Then she learned he called the shots in cities where 14,500 Jews were murdered

Sex, Bribes and Gambling: The Warsaw Ghetto Heroes Who Didn't Take Part in the Uprising

In her new research, historian Havi Dreifuss plays down some old myths and uncovers the gallantry of everyday Jews who suffered the Nazis’ barbarism

Holocaust Institute Calls on Romania Not to Rehabilitate War Criminal

The Elie Wiesel Institute for Holocaust Study says the move could affect 'the memory of tens of thousands of Jewish and Roma victims'

Hungarian Jews Split Over Search for Holocaust Victims' Remains in Danube

Federation of Hungarian Jewish Communities asked to stop the search, saying 'it breaches the peace and dignity of the dead'

Israel, Hungary to Search for Holocaust Victims’ Bones in Danube River

The victims whose bones will now be searched for were among the thousands of Jews who were shot by Hungarians and thrown into the Danube between 1944 and 1945

Opinion Warsaw Ghetto Museum Historian: A Tale of History, Force and Narrow Horizons

Is it really such a great sin to take a more inclusive approach to studying the history of Nazi-occupied Poland?

Opinion The Israeli Historian Under the Polish Government’s Thumb

In his role as the Warsaw Ghetto Museum’s chief historian, Daniel Blatman distorts the history of the Holocaust and takes on the role of court historian

New Book Leaves Norway’s ‘Heroic Role’ in the Holocaust in Tatters

The Norwegian resistance didn’t warn the Jews about their deportation to Auschwitz and smuggled Jews to Sweden for money, according to a journalist’s research

Opinion Yad Vashem Teaches the Holocaust Like Totalitarian Countries Teach History

Yad Vashem is now paying the price of the many years in which it nurtured a one-dimensional, simplistic message that there’s only one way to explain the Holocaust