Belatedly, the survivors were rescued from obscurity and the human element of the tragedy came to the fore. Local and then international testimony projects emerged, the largest being the ongoing Visual History Archive which has interviewed close to 60,000 survivors, including of more recent genocides such as that in Rwanda.

Mama’s life was a testament to resilience. Despite her hardships, she exuded warmth, dignity, and kindness. She taught me to see the humanity in everyone, to give generously, and to be grateful. Even in the hospital, she thanked every doctor, nurse, and cleaner with genuine appreciation.

Many people were taken by the Nazi secret police, the Gestapo, to the concentration ... with six million other Jewish people. The word ‘Holocaust’ comes from two Ancient Greek words ...

Elon Musk referenced Adolf Hitler and other Nazi leaders in a social media post filled with puns early Thursday taunting those who accused him of doing a Nazi salute at an event after President

Brookfield, 98, and a longtime resident of Whittier, was born in Chemnitz, Germany, the only child of Willy and Dora Fleischmann. On Saturday, she shared her memories in advance of International Holocaust Memorial Day, marked this year on Monday. She was 11 in 1936 when she remembers other children in her school learning to be cruel.

The Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp in Poland was liberated by Soviet forces on January 27, 1945. Eighty years later, only a few of its survivors remain. At nearly 100 years old, Ginette

Ahead of the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz on Monday, it is fitting to recalls two Cork women who saved hundreds of people from Nazi terror

As the Nazis entered their small flat, his mother, Chana, and older sister, Ita, turned pale and started trembling. After examining Chana's ID card and passport, he confirmed her fears. It was March 1943,

A passion project, Paula Apsell’s “Resistance” is also a corrective to the long-held assumption that as Hitler’s Nazis swore to erase the entire Jewish race, “Jews went to their deaths like

A Holocaust survivor who lived through four concentration camps will return to Auschwitz to mark 80 years since liberation of the notorious Nazi camp.

Monday’s ceremony marking the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz is more than just the moment to remember some 6 million Jews who died in the Holocaust.

A dwindling number of Holocaust survivors are able to share first-person accounts of the horrors they endured, as the world marks the 80th anniversary of