Holocaust

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…

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…