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Stories from Holocaust prisoners forced to work in the gas chambers should be heard, not silenced
On October 7 1944, a group of prisoners in Auschwitz-Birkenau took up tools and stones and…
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Women who escaped Nazi Germany reunited after “six degrees of separation”
More than 80 years into life, Beatrice Muchman and Renate Wasserman learned they were second cousins, nearly 70…
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Raoul Wallenberg Officially Declared Dead by Sweden, 71 Years After Disappearance
Swedish authorities have formally pronounced World War II hero Raoul Wallenberg dead, 71 years after he disappeared in Hungary. The Swedish diplomat, credited with…
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Two Holocaust survivors and their ‘wish of a lifetime’
WASHINGTON (WUSA9) – They called it, “the wish of a lifetime.” Two…
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French student credits Holocaust survivor for changing his life in new film
When Leon Zyguel visited a French classroom eight years ago to tell the story of how he survived Auschwitz and Buchenwald, he probably hoped…
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Jewish-American ex-sailor recalls Cyprus internment with Holocaust survivors
Anger gripped Murray Greenfield when he found himself locked up in a British detention camp with hundreds of Jewish refugees after WWII
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VIDEO: Canadian teens take emotional pilgrimage to Nazi death camps
W5’s Sandie Rinaldo joins a group of Canadian high school students, chaperones, and Holocaust survivors on a journey from Toronto to Poland as they embark on an…
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This Day in Jewish History // 1946: Nazi Doctors Are Indicted
Human experimentation by Nazi Germany would embarrass the global medical community and ultimately change the history of ethics and medical research.
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