Holocaust

A Timeline of the Holocaust

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

The Nazis wiped out several major Sephardic population centers and caused the almost complete demise of Ladino culture.

How Hitler laid the groundwork for genocide.

As the number of Holocaust survivors declines every year, efforts have been made to preserve their testimonies.

These under-the-radar movies about the Shoah are affecting, powerful and nuanced.

Though not as well known as Anne Frank's diary or Elie Wiesel's works, these texts will increase your understanding of the Shoah.

When the last known gay Jewish Holocaust survivor, Gad Beck, died in 2012, it was a poignant reminder that both ...

The story of the young diarist who became a symbol of the Holocaust.

Memorial Day is approaching, and while I’m usually swept up in the parades, beach trips and community cookouts, this year ...

This evening begins Yom Hashoah, Holocaust Remembrance Day. It is a day set aside to remember the experience of the ...

The largest Nazi extermination camp.

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

How the Third Reich spread racism, anti-Semitism and anti-Bolshevism.

Passed in September 1935, they provided the legal framework for the systematic persecution of Jews in Germany.

Where were the United States government and the American Jewish community during the destruction of European Jewry?