Holocaust

OSWIECIM, Poland (AP) American civil rights activist the Rev. Jesse Jackson prayed and mourned at Auschwitz-Birkenau on Friday as he joined survivors paying homage to an often forgotten genocide that of the Roma people on a key 75th anniversary. In addition …

The idea of paying reparations for slavery is gaining momentum in the United States, despite being long derided as an unrealistic plan, to compensate for state violence committed by and against people long dead. The topic saw substantive debate in the July 3…

Subscribe to Radio Atlantic : Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Stitcher ( How to Listen ) Listen to Edward-Isaac Dovere interview Dana Nessel on Radio Atlantic. DETROIT—A white moderate man can win statewide in Michigan, sure, but so can a progressive Jewish lesbia…

In a game called Manitoba, players are Cree clan leaders, yet the game prominently features totem poles, made by Native American and First Nations peoples who lived thousands of miles away. (The Italian game designers of Manitoba have defended the inaccuracie…

Auschwitz, Bergen-Belsen, Dachau, Buchenwald. Those names should cause readers to shudder as they remember the horrors that were wrought there and the millions of people who died behind their walls. However, as the years pass and the numbers of Holocaust surv…

Auschwitz, Bergen-Belsen, Dachau, Buchenwald. Those names should cause readers to shudder as they remember the horrors that were wrought there and the millions of people who died behind their walls. However, as the years pass and the numbers of Holocaust surv…

There were a lot of interesting ideas in Game of Thrones final episode, albeit ones dramatically rushed into, with disregard for actually setting them up over the course of a season (or several seasons) of television. Now, you can see some of the processes be…

These records from the Arolsen Archives are among those searchable on Ancestry. There are 29 Polish children listed on this record of births of Word War II German persecutees. Ancestry is digitizing millions of Holocaust and Nazi-persecution records and maki…

"But what Graf did 96 years ago potentially changed the course of history. His name has faded into obscurity since but he is still known in the collectors' market. "There was interest in this medal from all over the world including Germany. You're allowed to…

Chiune Sugihara issued thousands of visas to save Lithuanian Jews during World War II. Google Doodle Monday's Google Doodle paid tribute to Japanese diplomat who sacrificed his career to help Jews escape Lithuania during World War II. Chiune Sugihara was st…