• Philip Bialowitz before the trial against John Demjanjuk in 2010. Mr. Demjanjuk was convicted of being a collaborating guard at Sobibor, a secret Nazi death camp. CHRISTOF STACHE, VIA ASSOCIATED PRESS

    Philip Bialowitz, Who Escaped a Nazi Death Camp and Testified in Court, Dies at 90

    Philip Bialowitz, a Polish Jew who escaped Sobibor, a secret Nazi extermination camp, in the aftermath of a dramatic prisoner uprising and bore witness to the horrors of the Holocaust in a powerful memoir and in courtroom testimony, died on Aug. 6 in Delray Beach, Fla. He was 90. The cause was congestive heart failure, his son Joseph said. […]

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  • A Letter to my Daughter Kim Before She Embarks on the March of the Living

    A Letter to My Daughter Kim before she embarks on the March of The Living… Dearest Kim, The March of the Living is an extraordinary, unforgettable experience. With thousands of Jewish people, from countries all around the world, you will share in a once in a lifetime experience when they march three kilometers from Auschwitz […]

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  • Grandson of Holocaust Survivor Wins Silver Medal for France at Rio Olympics

    A French Olympian who is the grandson of a Holocaust survivor won a silver medal with his team on Monday in the men’s freestyle relay finals at the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio. The swimmer, Fabien Gilot, — who, as Tablet reported, sports a Hebrew tattoo that says, “Without them, I am nothing” — explained that the […]

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  • Florida Holocaust survivors back in Warsaw to perform in former ghetto

    A musical duo of Holocaust survivors from Florida who have toured the United States returned to their native Poland to perform there for the first time, at an outdoor concert in Warsaw. Polish television and radio stations will be broadcasting their concert live to millions of people, according to From the Depths, an organization which […]

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  • Rescued violins bring back Holocaust memories

    AFP — Tucking the violin beneath his chin, the instrument’s wood glistening under the packed auditorium’s spotlights, Guy Braunstein’s hand trembled from the weight of history. “I have done thousands of concerts, but I have never been as emotional and trembled the way I did when I took that violin from Auschwitz in my hand,” […]

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  • Wisconsin Researcher Talks About Major Holocaust Discovery

    An international research team of geoscientists and geographers recently made a remarkable find in Lithuania. It’s a 100-foot tunnel, dug mostly by hand at night by Jewish prisoners who were anticipating execution during the Holocaust 72 years ago. University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire geography professor Harry Jol and four of his students used ground penetrating radar […]

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  • Amsterdam rejects restitution, settles with survivors for $11M

    JTA – The City of Amsterdam approved an $11 million payment to Jewish causes as compensation for money it wrongfully collected from individual Holocaust survivors. Four of the five factions represented at city hall last week voted in favor of transferring the funds to a nonprofit that would distribute the money among various Jewish groups. […]

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  • Beyond Anne Frank: Dutch tell their full Holocaust story

    AMSTERDAM — Anne Frank is only part of the story. The diary of the young Jewish girl who came of age hiding from the Nazis in Amsterdam has long been the dominant narrative of the Netherlands’ experience during World War II. Hers is a story of inspiration and resistance that in many ways the Dutch […]

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  • Heinrich Himmler’s Lost Diaries Reveal Everyday Horrors of the Holocaust

    Extracts from Heinrich Himmler‘s newly-discovered diaries have revealed the grisly everyday routine of the mastermind of the Holocaust in the depths of World War 2. The diaries were thought to have been lost after they were seized by the Red Army, The London Timesreports. They document the horrific activities of the Nazi head of the […]

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  • German University’s course claims Israel harvests Palestinian organs

      BERLIN – An academic seminar at a German university claims Israel’s military harvests organs from Palestinians and the Jewish state is responsible for a genocide. “Our sons were robbed of their organs,” was the title of a part of the seminar’s course material, Rebecca Seidler, an academic who blew the whistle on the anti-Israel […]

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