Holocaust

In the darkest years of the Second World War, Witold Pilecki, a Polish cavalry officer turned resistance fighter, undertook the most audacious of missions: to get himself arrested by the Germans and sent to the Nazi concentration camp at Auschwitz. On Septemb…

NORTHFIELD, Ohio June Scharf was going through the security checkpoint at the MGM Northfield Casino near Cleveland recently when something about the security guards' uniforms struck her. "My most immediate thought was, this is a problem," Scharf said. The g…

By Gianluca Mezzofiore and Catherine E. Shoichet, CNN Updated 5:35 AM ET, Thu July 25, 2019 Chat with us in Facebook Messenger. Find out what's happening in the world as it unfolds. (CNN)A family is skittish about speaking Spanish at the supermarket. A mot…

In 1961, President John F. Kennedy appointed Robert Morgenthau, who died Sunday at 99, as United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York. He could not have conceived of how great a prosecutor Bob would be. The scion of a distinguished German Je…

Throughout the 1990s I taught Western Civilization at Cooper Union in NYC.  Every semester we read Primo Levis Survival in Auschwitz (If This Is a Man).  No doubt it is a masterpiece, not only as a Holocaust testimony but in the canon of Western literature.  …

Throughout the 1990s I taught Western Civilization at Cooper Union in NYC.  Every semester we read Primo Levis Survival in Auschwitz (If This Is a Man).  No doubt it is a masterpiece, not only as a Holocaust testimony but in the canon of Western literature.  …

Parents across the United States these days have been taking their children to see the newest US animation blockbuster Toy Story.  Schools have ended and long summer days require entertainment for children anywhere around the world.      But soon after watch…

President Donald Trump continued his feud with London Mayor Sadiq Khan by mocking him over a bizarre tweet from the city's police department. Hackers broke into the Twitter account and other blogging systems of London's Metropolitan Police Friday night, pu…

This summer, tankers are exploding, disappearing, or getting seized near the Gulf; drones are getting destroyed in tit-for-tat attacks; and a war of words and tweets is erupting between Donald Trump and Iran’s supreme leader. That’s where all the drama is, bu…

I was born in Melbourne to Holocaust survivors from Poland who arrived in Australia in 1949. My father had been brought up in a chasidic home his family being followers of the Rebbe of Radomsk but that chasidic group was decimated during the war, and the surv…