Over 70 years later, the almost-untold story of Master Sergeant Roddie Edmonds has unleashed a worldwide movement toward heroic living
Visions of burning shuls, looted stores, smashed homes, and men carted off can never be erased. Eighty years later, eyewitnesses recall the Night of Broken Glass
Father Patrick Desbois is on a mission to record eyewitness testimony about every Holocaust-era mass grave site in Eastern Europe. But his efforts have taken on a new urgency
Who was Reb Shaya Blau a”h, and how did he save so many from the Churban in Europe?
Facing certain death, the inmates took the only tools they had — spoons, plates, screwdrivers, their bare hands — and started digging. Could they possibly fashion a tunnel that would lead to freedom from the Nazis?
Children of Holocaust survivors grew up with adults possessed of unimaginable courage and determination. Yet many of them carry with them the scars of the past
In one of the last interviews before his passing, Elie Wiesel shared his own tortured reflections.
Chaim Yitzchok Wolgelernter’s diary might be the only surviving wartime journal written by a chassidic Jew for future generations, yet it was hidden away for decades. After two decades of painstaking work, his children recaptured not only the horrific images of war, but also the spiritual resilience of Jews who refused to give up hope.
When Charlie Press enlisted in the US Army in 1945, he became an unwitting witness to the horrors of history in the waning days of World War II. But it took nearly 50 years until he was ready to talk about it.
A blind, penniless Holocaust survivor stumbles into England at the end of the war, half his family gone and his prospects nil. But what begins as a tragedy ends in triumph. Hershel Herskovic decided he’d continue living.
The day American Jewish organizations put Hitler on trial in front of the crowds at Madison Square Garden.