History

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.

by Carol Ungar

A documentary unearths the explosive controversy over Holocaust reparations—fierce protests, political clashes, and a moral reckoning that split survivors, Israel, and postwar Germany apart.

by Dr. Yvette Alt Miller

Heroines of the French Resistance were deported to Ravensbrück concentration camp. An important new book tells their story.

by Nissan Ratzlav-Katz

Dragged before a sultan in 1834, Solica was told: convert to Islam or be executed. The 17-year-old girl paid the ultimate price, and her refusal continues to echo across generations.

by Rabbi Dr. Stu Halpern, MBA

Five surprising ways Jewish ideas and people helped shape the founding of the United States.

by Rabbi Ken Spiro

The Hebrew Bible played a major role in the creation of the United States and its democracy.

by Eliyahu Freedman

True stories of espionage, sabotage—and Divine Providence.

by Eliyahu Freedman

Before today’s bitter conflict, Iran and Israel were close allies—sharing oil, intelligence, and friendship. This is the lost chapter the world rarely remembers.

by Lori Samlin Miller

The heroic actions of 200 inmates at Mittelbau-Dora concentration camp is the subject of new film, “Dirty Bomb.”

by Dr. Yvette Alt Miller

Three ways Jews helped shape this unique American holiday.

by Yehudis Litvak

Two Dutch families risked everything to create a hidden village and save as many lives as possible from Nazi persecution.

by Eliyahu Freedman

A thousand years of daily life, debate, and devotion, preserved in a forgotten storeroom in Cairo is reshaping Jewish history.

by Dr. Yvette Alt Miller

Long before Israel became a state, a bold plan aimed to settle thousands of Russian Jews in Galveston, Texas. Assimilation nearly buried the story.

by Ruchama Feuerman

In Israel's darkest moment, outnumbered and surrounded by enemies, an old woman sees what no one else can see.

by Ben Herskowitz

Think you know a lot about the Israel? Test your knowledge now.

by Irwin Cotler

While the Holocaust was “uniquely unique,” there are important universal lessons to be acted upon.

by Yaakov Best

Antisemitic myths like this one distort the past and fuel hate in the present.

by Dr. Yvette Alt Miller

Using their avid opera-going as a cover, the British sisters saved dozens of Jews in Nazi Europe.

by Dr. Henry Abramson

“Red Haggadahs” were published in the 1920s with the explicit goal of replacing belief in God with faith in Communist Russia.

by Rabbi Dr. Stu Halpern, MBA

The Festival of Freedom has shaped the U.S. from the founding era to today.

by Ruchama Feuerman

Why would the illustrious Gentile writer resist the antisemitism of her time and devote her prodigious talent into a novel about Jews and Zionism? 

by Dr. Yvette Alt Miller

The true story behind The World Will Tremble, how Jews escaped from a concentration camp and warned the world about the Holocaust.

by Dan Rich

For 25 young female Auschwitz prisoners, the key to their survival was crafting exquisite garments for the wives of high-ranking Nazi officers.

by Benjamin Elterman

Test your history knowledge. Which of the following figures helped the Jews thrive and which were a thorn in their side?

by Dr. Yvette Alt Miller

In the 1930s, the Nazis’ perfect “Aryan” baby was actually a penniless Jewish immigrant.

by Noam Chen

Drawing some hope and inspiration from the pre-war synagogues which were meticulously restored.

by Noam Chen

Eighty years after the Holocaust, what do Europe’s surviving synagogues reveal about Nazi Germany’s mission to annihilate European Jewry?

by Noam Chen

These historic synagogues survived the devastation of WWII. Some have been restored, others lay in ruins, abandoned and forgotten. A few have been disturbingly repurposed.

by Carol Ungar

Surprising his non-religious family, Memphis-born David Shainberg, 23, left Wharton School of Business to learn Torah in the Land of Israel in 1928.

by Channel Four Documentaries

A powerful account told from the perspective of Holocaust survivors, using restored colorised archive footage. Viewer discretion is advised.

by Dr. Yvette Alt Miller

Eighty years ago, Jews and other prisoners rose up against Auschwitz’s Nazi guards.

by Dan Rich

During the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising Zivia Lubetkin’s teenage army battled the Nazis for 28 days.

by Dr. Rafael Medoff

Liberating the concentration camp changed Rabbi Herschel Schacter's life.

by Rabbi Elie Mischel

Dietrich Bonhoeffer wrestled with his own theology and stood up for the Jewish People.

by Dr. Yvette Alt Miller

African American women of the 6888th Battalion delivered millions of pieces of mail during World War II.

by Kylie Ora Lobell

Celia fought against the Nazis with the Soviet partisans.

by Unpacked

As the Holocaust raged, José Arturo Castellanos Contreras, a Salvadoran diplomat, quietly defied the Nazi regime, secretly forging Salvadoran passports to save Jews from extermination.

by Dr. Yvette Alt Miller

During the darkest days of Soviet antisemitism, the great non-Jewish composer championed Jews and Jewish culture.

by Dan Rich

Marty Glickman and Sam Stoller were likely removed due to antisemitism and the desire by the USA and International Olympic Committees to not embarrass Hitler.

by David Saks

In the summer of 1941, the Soviet regime deported tens of thousands of Lithuanian citizens to freezing, inhospitable labor camps. Ironically, it’s why some East European Jews ultimately survived the war.

by Dr. Rafael Medoff

The free world's muted reaction to the Kristallnacht pogrom foreshadowed the terrible silence with which it would greet the Nazis' Final Solution.

by The Cape Jewish Chronicle

The Chinese president’s Jewish confidant who mustered Chinese support of the creation of Israel.

by Dr. Yvette Alt Miller

An important new film shows the role propaganda, disinformation and demagoguery played in stoking Hitler’s power, a much-needed lesson for today.

by Dr. Yvette Alt Miller

The new movie Lee highlights WWII war correspondent Lee Miller who struggled to tell the world about Nazi horrors.

by Kylie Ora Lobell

Eighty Jews attempted to escape, only 12 survived. A new book tells their harrowing story.