Cohn, a well-known German-Jewish medieval historian and high school teacher in Breslau, kept a detailed diary about the persecution of the town’s Jews from 1933 to 1941. It was unearthed and ...

Breslau’s destruction, it should be said, was by no means inevitable. It hinged entirely on Hitler’s decision, in late 1944, to designate the city as “Festung Breslau,” Germany’s final ...

Bonhoeffer was born in 1906 in Breslau, Germany (present-day Wroclaw, Poland), one of eight children in a prominent, well-educated family. He early showed a strong piety, studied theology and by ...

Six chaotic years later, in January 1945, Hodson, 11, several siblings and her mother fled their home in Breslau, Germany, to make their way west about 400 kilometers (250 miles) to Bayreuth.

Bonhoeffer was born in 1906 in Breslau, Germany (present-day Wroclaw, Poland), one of eight children in a prominent, well-educated family. He early showed a strong piety, studied theology and by ...

Bonhoeffer was born in 1906 in Breslau, Germany (present-day Wroclaw, Poland), one of eight children in a prominent, well-educated family. He early showed a strong piety, studied theology and by ...

In early November 1938, tumultuous sounds of “screaming, crashing, breaking of glass, shouting” in what was then Breslau, Germany, kept Esther Ascher Adler’s family awake through the night.

A special court sitting here sentenced Doctor Ernst Rechnitz, administrative director of the Breslau Jewish community, as responsible editor of the Breslau Gemeindeblatt, the Jewish community ...

Bonhoeffer was born in 1906 in Breslau, Germany (present-day Wroclaw, Poland), one of eight children in a prominent, well-educated family. He early showed a strong piety, studied theology and by ...