holocaust

10 Holocaust Memoirs You Should Read

These first-person accounts of Jewish survival and resilience during the Holocaust are powerful, educational and moving.

Ali Sheqer Pashkaj

A shopkeeper in northern Albania, Sheqer rescued a Jewish man from the Nazis and sheltered him for three years.

What Is Babi Yar?

Over 33,000 Jews were murdered at this ravine in Kyiv in September, 1941.

A Brief History of Jews in the Olympics

The prevailing stereotypes of Jews as bookish, nerdy, or business-minded have led to a widespread assumption that, on the whole, ...

How to Fight Anti-Semitism

The most common answers focus on hate crimes law and education. Here are nine others.

Supporting Holocaust Causes for Your Bar/Bat Mitzvah Project

Countless organizations, both Jewish and not, are dedicated to Holocaust education and supporting survivors.

A Timeline of the Holocaust

From Hitler's rise to power to the Nuremberg trials, key events of the Shoah.

Antisemitism 101

What you need to know about the world's oldest hatred.

Jewish Refugees During and After the Holocaust

Jews fleeing the Nazis had difficulty finding countries that would take them in.

Nazi War Crimes Trials

The Nuremberg trials were the best known, but hardly the only efforts to hold perpetrators accountable.