How Hitler won Germans over with his ‘scientific religion’

The Nazis conducted experiments on her mother and nailed her father’s tongue to a wall. And yet, Israeli lecturer Tamar Ketko still managed to be shocked by what she found in Nazi textbooks she discovered in a Zurich library cellar. Talking to: Dr. Tamar Ketko, lecturer in philosophy of history

Warsaw museum to offer high-tech posthumous talks with Poles who saved Jews

Polish and Israeli officials announced the future opening of an innovative museum honoring non-Jews who risked their lives to save Jews from the Holocaust. The museum, which will feature interactive 3D videos of saviors of Jews, is slated to open in 2018 in the center of Warsaw under the auspices

Alumni Reflection: Julia Ellis “I Traveled All The Way To Poland To March For Those Who No Longer Can—And It Changed My Life Forever”, 2016

I went on March of the Living to make sure that not one victim of the Holocaust died in vain; I promise I will never forget. by Julia Ellis I don’t even know how to begin talking about this trip, but I’m going to try my best to do it justice.

Marking the Ghosts in Poland’s Old Jewish Cemeteries

How do you alert people to an absence? Across Poland, different communities come together to clean up and restore Jewish cemeteries. But in some places, those cemeteries have been not just neglected, but replaced — with sites ranging from stadiums to parking lots to playgrounds. That’s where Katarzyna Kopecka, Piotr

Holocaust survivors rush to beat deadline on Poland claims

WARSAW, Poland — A Jewish organization launched a database to help thousands of Holocaust survivors or their heirs regain property lost in Warsaw due to World War II and communism, after the Polish government issued a six-month deadline on claims. The World Jewish Restitution Organization, or WJRO, announced the new

Is It Time to Recognize the Jewish Oskar Schindlers?

This summer, the Jewish Rescuers Citation was awarded posthumously to Wilfrid Israel, a long-forgotten German Jew. He saved the lives of thousands of Jews during the Holocaust, but lost his life in 1943 when, for reasons unknown, the plane he was on was shot down by the German air force.

Police: Stolen Nazi Camp Gate Probe Could Be Complicated

The investigation into how an iron gate stolen from the Nazis’ Dachau concentration camp in southern Germany ended up in western Norwaymay be complicated because “no useable evidence” has been found, police said Saturday. Police spokeswoman Kari Bjoerkhaug Trones says the gate with the cynical slogan “Arbeit macht frei” —

Jews of Aden recall the pogrom sparked by UN vote on Palestine partition plan

Shimon Sasson, 84, of Tel Aviv, was 15 when the riots broke out in the port city of Aden. It happened just after November 29, 1947, the date on which the United Nations approved the partition plan for Palestine, paving the way for the founding of the State of Israel.

France Returns Nazi-looted Art to Holocaust Survivor’s Grandson

France has returned a 16th century work of Nazi-looted art to heirs of the Jewish family that was forced to sell it in Paris during Nazi occupation in World War II. French Culture Minister Audrey Azoulay handed the painting attributed to Flemish artists Joos van Cleve or his son back

Posthumous honor for US officer who saved 200 Jewish GIs from the Nazis — and never told a soul

NEW YORK — In a singular act of humanity and defiance, Master Sgt. Roddie Edmonds stood up to a German commandant and saved 200 American Jewish GIs from transportation to a slave labor camp. It was 1945 and Edmonds had been a prisoner of war in Stalag IX-A, a German