holocaust

Ask the Expert: Can I Recite Mourner’s Kaddish for a Non-Relative?

A rabbi weighs in on reciting Mourner's Kaddish for someone you're not related to.

How this Hungarian Jew became a national heroine of Israel.

How one of the first female rabbis was almost forgotten.

These women use diaries, memoirs, fiction, and poetry to express their Holocaust experience.

Gender and sexuality are motifs for women Holocaust writers.

The political role of one woman in the ghetto and the Zionist Movement.

The German luxury ship, the St. Louis, sailed to Cuba with over 900 passengers on it, only to be turned away and sent back to Europe.

"Roosevelt's soldier with a pen."

A life dedicated to rescue.

Some non-Jews stood up to the Nazis, and helped their Jewish neighbors, despite grave dangers.