American soldiers were unprepared for what they discovered in the Ohrdruf concentration camp in Germany in April 1945: piles ...

I was screaming and crying … I didn’t want to go,” remembers Holocaust survivor Josie Traum about the day strangers came to ...

Leo Ullman survived the Holocaust in hiding with strangers as a toddler—in Amsterdam, the same city where Anne Frank hid and was later discovered. His parents ...

Peter Gorog was born Péter Grünwald in Budapest, the capital of Hungary, on March 10, 1941. Peter’s father, Árpád Grünwald, worked as an office manager at the Franklin Publishing House, and his mother ...

My best remembered early days were unfortunately my years in Nazi Germany. When I was born, some years before Hitler came to power, my family was quite comfortable. They had a successful business, a ...

My father and I left the SS Washington, the ship we traveled on from Le Havre, France, to New York City to start our new life in the New World. We said goodbye to Lady Liberty and proceeded off the ...

The symposium inspires service academy cadets and midshipmen to draw upon lessons of the past to develop innovative means of preventing mass atrocities in the future. As future military officers ...

After I survived the Holocaust in Poland, my mother, father, sister, and I moved to England, where we were generously accepted as we tried to move past the terrible years of World War II. We were ...

Holocaust survivor Joël Nommick was born into danger in December 1942 in the midst of World War II. Just months earlier, Joël’s father had been arrested and taken away from the family. Authorities ...

Non, rien de rien, Non, je ne regrette rien. (No, nothing at all, No, I do not regret anything.) —Édith Piaf There have been many moments in my adult life when I have had to make a decision. Sometimes ...

This three-minute video explains Holocaust denial and the different forms it takes. Transcript Holocaust denial is a form of antisemitism. The only reason to deny the Holocaust is to inculcate and ...

As antisemitism, conspiracy theories, and Holocaust distortion surge across the world, we must unleash the power of Holocaust history and educate new generations about its ongoing relevance. On March ...