'As a sign that you have read this, send me a blue thread in a parcel': The heroic tale of young Ravensbrück inmates whose coded messages to their families were no less than genius
Verena Bahlsen said her father's company, which employed about 200 forced laborers during World War II, 'did nothing wrong'
Nearly 60 years after she attended and wrote about the Eichmann trial, Hannah Arendt remains a controversial figure among intellectuals in Israel
In 1942, an SS officer told a Swedish diplomat about the Nazi death camps. A new documentary has revived the story
Novelist Raphaela Edelbauer has been exploring the history of the camp at a former gypsum mine. It reflects a culture of denial
The life of Tsiporah Singer, 96, was saved twice during WWII. Lying on the floor, unable to move, a German told her this was her end. 'I tightened my fists and said to myself, you’re wrong, I’m going to live'
Yad Vashem exhibits 12 letters online, written by Jews on their last journey
Results are 'disturbing' seeing as some of the key perpetrators of the Nazi genocide were Austrian, U.S. Jewish organization says
Nadan Feldman, who's writing a doctorate at Hebrew University, identifies support for Hitler in the '20s and '30s in the family that owned one of the world's largest chemical companies
'Anyone who wants to find an enemy finds an enemy in the Jew,' says Beate Klarsfeld, who along with his wife Serge have worked to protect institutions from rising nationalism
Swiss journalist Sacha Batthyany knew he belonged to an aristocratic family, centered around his respected aunt. He didn’t know about the murderous ball held in 1945, that led to a personal quest, threats from relatives and a book
Considering the amount of original research that has been done in recent decades, is this number still considered accurate by scholars of the subject?
The fearless exploits of Dutch businessman Salomon ‘Sally’ Noach are recounted in a new documentary, ‘Forgotten Soldier,’ in which his daughter tracks down some of the survivors he saved from the Nazis
Authorities claim 26-year-old suspect, who converted to Islam, was planning to bomb a Nazi rally in retribution for the New Zealand mosque shooting
Poland's right-wing PiS party has revived calls for compensation since taking power in 2015 and has promoted the narrative of Poland's wartime victimhood as a central plank of its appeal to nationalism
Professor Jeff Byers asked students to calculate the amount of gas the Nazis would have to use to give a lethal dose in a particular size room
Prosecutors in the northern city of Hamburg said Thursday that the 92-year-old suspect, whose name wasn't released, is accused of assisting in the 'malicious and cruel' killing of thousands
'Those that forget their past are sentenced not to have a future,' the Brazilian president says
What happened to a person in wartime Norway who hit a German national? What was the local press allowed to print? Documents retrieved by British commandos recently found in Israel's National Library shed light on life under the Nazis
In the video advertising its new album, Rammstein members appear dressed as concentration camp prisoners
A Jewish American man sued a state-funded center for erecting a plaque honoring Jonas Noreika, a local anti-Communist hero who died while in Soviet custody
According to German law, membership in the SS alone is not a reason for denying a pension or compensation claim for veterans
Reimann family spokesman confirms newspaper's report that ancestors donated to SS even before Hitler rose to power and used forced labor during WWII
Four houses that were part of a grand dream to fortify German Jewry but were seized by the Nazis, are at the center of a dispute that is sparking high drama in a German village
A new biography sheds light on the motivations of the man who nearly assassinated the Fuehrer
March 16, known as Legionnaire Day, has attracted criticism at home and abroad by those who say the events glorify Nazism
An assignment for a writing class brought Ira Fuchs to a newspaper article about a tunnel from a Nazi killing pit in Vilna — and inspired his new off-Broadway play about the Jewish prisoners who secretly dug it
Iraqi Jews who escaped the Farhud attacks in 1941 argue that the pogrom was encouraged by Nazi propaganda
Pascal Soleme calls the float, which featured anti-Semitic depictions of Jews with money bags and rats, a 'celebration of humor'
One student told the LA Times that some of her Jewish friends felt threatened by the incident