History

by The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

As young teenagers, Ruth Cohen, Steven Fenves, and Irene Weiss were deported from their hometowns to Auschwitz-Birkenau. There, they were separated from family members before being subjected to forced labor and harrowing conditions.

by Avi Abrams

The story of the Jewish orphans of Poland who found refuge in Iran.

by Rabbi Dr. Stu Halpern, MBA

From George Washington to Marco Rubio, American leaders have invoked Jerusalem for 250 years. The connection runs deeper than you'd think.

by Sofya Tamarkin

Helena Swerdlik survived the Holocaust by hiding in plain sight. Her father was betrayed for five pounds of sugar.

by Dr. Yvette Alt Miller

This week we remember one of the most devastating attacks in Jewish history.

by Susan Hornik

The Webers hid on a German farm for two years, and were separated upon arrival in America.

by Dan Rich

His rifle was his paintbrush, and he became one of the most feared weapons in the Allied arsenal.

by Dan Rich

Three teenage girls slipped through Nazi-occupied Holland hiding in plain sight, and left a body count behind them.

by Susan Hornik

At Auschwitz, a 29-year-old Hungarian Jew named Erno "Zvi" Spiegel risked his life daily to protect boys from Josef Mengele. His story is finally being told.

by Dan Rich

A quarter million Jews were murdered at Sobibor. But on one October afternoon in 1943, nearly 300 prisoners fought back and ran for their lives.

by Dr. Yvette Alt Miller

The story behind Israel’s flag and why it’s a potent symbol for Jews worldwide.

by Rabbi Dr. Yosef Lynn

Inside a Nazi death camp, starving prisoners composed a prayer that will transform your Passover Seder.

by Dr. Yvette Alt Miller

A century ago, Limerick's Jews were boycotted, attacked, and driven out of the city. The Jew-hatred that fueled still exists in Ireland today.

by Eliyahu Freedman

While Anne Frank hid, Hannah Senesh grabbed a gun and parachuted into Nazi Europe. Why does the world remember one and ignore the other? A conversation with author Matti Friedman.

by Larry Domnitch

In early 1942, half a million Jews in Palestine were weeks away from a Nazi invasion. What stopped Hitler from finishing what he started?

by Doron Keren

My grandfather hid his family in the sewers of Nazi-occupied Lvov for 14 months. What kept them human down there is something I'm still trying to understand.

by Dr. Yvette Alt Miller

The story behind the quintessential Jewish song.

by Dr. Yvette Alt Miller

How teenage violin prodigy Motele Schlein single-handedly destroyed a Nazi SS unit.

by Dr. Yvette Alt Miller

This popular Chinese game has been largely shaped by a group of Jewish women.

by Zack Rothbart

A fearless 27-year-old Jewish lawyer forced Hitler to squirm on the witness stand. Years later, imprisoned in Dachau, Hans Litten’s defiance became a symbol of resistance.

by Yosef Gesser

In the early 20th century, Schwester Selma Meir, a German-trained nurse, brought order, compassion, and professional care to Jerusalem, changing the future of medicine in the Land of Israel.

by Avi Abrams

The forgotten story of Francis Salvador, the Jewish Founding Father of America.

by Jeff Jacoby

Architectural drawings enabled industrialized murder at Auschwitz and its creator walked free, exposing how professional skill, ethical silence, and bureaucracy can become instruments of genocide.

by Dan Rich

In the final days of WWII, one last, improbable battle unfolded inside a medieval castle where American soldiers and German defectors fought side by side against SS troops.

by Adina Hershberg

Tragedy struck the illegal Jewish Moroccan emigration to Israel on a dark sea voyage that cost 44 lives.

by Yehudis Litvak

When most countries turned away desperate refugees fleeing Nazi terror, one unlikely Caribbean island provided Jews with a safe refuge.

by Dr. Yvette Alt Miller

Gen. Isidor Borowski was a Jewish adventurer-soldier who fought for Napoleon, helped liberate Venezuela, and rose to become a favored general of the Persian Shah.

by Dr. Yvette Alt Miller

Jews have played a central role in Venezuela for generations.

by Rabbi Menachem Levine

How did South Florida become one of the largest Jewish communities in the world?

by Dr. Yvette Alt Miller

Two assimilating Jewish families created the iconic jewelry company.

by Dan Rich

She survived the Siege of Leningrad and defused 750 mines by hand. Meet Sofia Golovinskaya, the female Jewish Red Army sapper history nearly erased.

by Noa Lev

In a daring operation on Christmas Eve 1969, Israel spirited five warships out of a NATO port, vanishing into winter storms during a covert intelligence gamble that stunned Europe.

by Dr. Yvette Alt Miller

A new book tells the untold history of how Jewish immigrants transformed American whiskey.

by Dan Rich

They helped defeat the Nazis with microfilm tucked into gloves, messages woven into yarn, and intelligence smuggled by bicycle, ski, sewing needle, and hair ribbon.

by Vivian Kalvaria

In the Nazi camps women forged bonds that helped them survive the horror of the Holocaust.

by Dr. Yvette Alt Miller

The Nuremberg Trials changed how humanity defines justice. Learn why their legacy remains vital in an age of denial and distortion.

by David Abitbol

Journey through Europe’s most beautiful synagogues — timeless sanctuaries where art, history, and faith unite. These photographs reveal a heritage of beauty, resilience, and devotion.

by Vivien Kalvaria

Once the lifeblood of Jewish Europe, Yiddish now speaks from the margins—a wounded language that refuses erasure.

by Dr. Yvette Alt Miller

On October 31st, 1905, thousands of Jews lost their lives in violence that swept across Russia.

by Susan Hornik

Behind Hitler’s propaganda stood Leni Riefenstahl—filmmaker, artist, denier. A new documentary, drawn from her private archives, reveals the truths she never admitted.

by Dan Rich

Nineteen Jewish Americans have received the Medal of Honor. Their stories span centuries—from Civil War scouts to modern warriors in Afghanistan.

by Sarah Pachter

Three women, one mission, zero mistakes. These Mossad heroines, armed with nothing but courage, cunning, and disguise, uncovered Syria’s secret reactor—altering the course of Middle Eastern history.

by Dr. Yvette Alt Miller

Kundanlal Gupta invented fake companies in order to issue exit visas to Austrian Jews.

by Judah Roberts

Ladino bound Sephardic families and traditions for centuries. Nearly lost to history, it’s now finding unexpected revival through teens and global efforts.

by Dr. Yvette Alt Miller

Amid terror, one Jewish woman’s unbreakable search for her vanished daughter and grandson helped spark a global movement for justice.

by Noa Lev

At 17, Masha Bruskina faced the Nazis’ noose with unflinching calm—her final act of defiance turned a warning into a timeless symbol of courage.

by aish.com

If history has taught us anything, it's not to give up on the Jewish People.

by Dr. Yvette Alt Miller

In 1939 Isadore Greenbaum risked his life to disrupt a major Nazi rally at Madison Square Gardens.

by Dr. Yvette Alt Miller

Secret files reveal 9,000 Nazi war criminals fled to South America after WWII.