The museum has many disturbing reminders of the deadliest conflict in human history, but none are more haunting than those in the Holocaust exhibit.
“We didn’t know what to expect. We didn’t know why we were there. And they gave us like a 10-by-10 place to sleep. We were crawling over each other’s bed in one of the slums of Kovno,” she said. “No heat, no running water, of course, no sewerage or anything like that. I remember trying to melt some snow and get it to my lips before it froze again.”
These things don't happen in Europe.' "So nobody believed them, and they stopped talking." Jeanette says it was only through a recording made by a school in the 1970s, showing Mascha describing her experiences to a group of children,
Jews in Hungary and around the world are observing Holocaust Remembrance Day 80 years after the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp.
As the world remembers the Holocaust, some Germans see a period ahead that echoes the widespread amnesia in the postwar period
It is an incontrovertible fact that the Holocaust was the result of anti-Semitism. It happened, and could only happen, on the back of two millennia of anti-Semitism, and after years of anti-Jewish hate was woven into the fabric of German society by the Nazis.
The 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz was widely acknowledged Monday as the last major observance that any notable number of survivors will be able to attend.
Remembering the atrocities at Auschwitz is vital, but we can’t lose sight of the fact that Auschwitz is only one part of the story of the Holocaust, writes.
A historian of the Holocaust and curator of the Auschwitz exhibition, now in Toronto, invites all who gather on Jan. 27 to also consider the date’s political origins.
On Holocaust Memorial Day, the players from FC Internazionale Milano’s youth sector attended a special showing of “Se il razzismo entra in campo” (If racism enters the
The 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz by Soviet troops is being marked by a ceremony widely being treated as the last major observance that any notable number of survivors will be able to attend.