Holocaust Studies

by Dan Rich

Tina Strobos built a secret attic hideout the Nazis never found, stole identity cards, and survived eight Gestapo raids. She lived ten minutes from Anne Frank and never knew.

by Sofya Tamarkin

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

by Noah Rothstein

Ernst Bornstein survived seven camps. He never forgot what his father asked.

by D. Sofer

One of World War II's most unusual heroes.

by Menucha Chana Levin

Dom Bruno joined the resistance and at great risk to his life established a network of hiding places for Jewish children.

by Dr. Yvette Alt Miller

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

by Dr. Yvette Alt Miller

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

by Jeff Heinrich

A woman's miraculous birth in the death camp of Auschwitz.

by Dr. Rafael Medoff

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

by Kylie Ora Lobell

Celia fought against the Nazis with the Soviet partisans.

by Dr. Yvette Alt Miller

Judy Batalion’s new book documents Jewish women who fought Nazis during WWII.

by Dr. Yvette Alt Miller

Due to the war, Gerda Cole was forced to give up her daughter. The 98-year-old was reunited for the first time with her 80-year-old daughter.

by Kylie Ora Lobell

Dr. Josephine Janina Mehlberg took on the fraudulent title of “countess” to rescue thousands from the death grip of the S.S.

by Dr. Yvette Alt Miller

Dr. Gisella Perl was forced to care for tens of thousands of women in the Holocaust.

by Kylie Ora Lobell

A new film details the incredible story of a winemaker who saved Jewish girls from the death grip of Auschwitz.

by Brenda Goldstein

Working for Oskar Schindler, Joseph Bau forged identities and saved hundreds of Jews. The famous artist also worked for the Mossad.

by Dr. Yvette Alt Miller

The Olympic champion and Holocaust survivor devoted his life to philanthropy and Holocaust education.

by Sarah Pachter

Masza Rosenroth survived Auschwitz and became a successful celebrity seamstress.

by Dr. Yvette Alt Miller

Hiding in an attic, Curt Bloch created anti-Nazi journals every week for nearly two years.

by Kylie Ora Lobell

A new book uncovers the almost-lost story of hope during the darkest of times.

by Yad Vashem

A historical video describing the life and work of Irena Sendler who saved hundreds of Jewish children during the Holocaust.

by Dr. Yvette Alt Miller

Profiles of 8 Jewish servicemembers.

by Dr. Yvette Alt Miller

The new series tells the remarkable story of the Emergency Rescue Committee that saved thousands of refugees from the Nazis.

by Dr. Yvette Alt Miller

The actor Robert Clary, 96, has died. Here is his harrowing story.

by Dr. Yvette Alt Miller

Annette Liebeskind Berkovitz teaches us how to fight antisemitism today.

by Menucha Chana Levin

As doctors, Kurt and Ella Lingens valued human life. During the Holocaust, they went far beyond that ideal.

by Sarah Pachter

Dr. Mark Nusbaum hid from Nazis in a secret room and is one of the few children who survived Bergen Belsen concentration camp.

by Menucha Chana Levin

Yaroslava Levytska is the youngest person recognized as a Righteous of the Nations for saving Jewish lives during the Holocaust.

by Sarah Pachter

Professor Shaul Ladany shows the world that nothing is unreachable.

by Slovie Jungreis-Wolff

Eichmann claimed he was bureaucrat following orders. Recently released transcripts of conversations he had with a Nazi journalist show Eichmann boasting of his significant role in executing the Final Solution.

by Dr. Yvette Alt Miller

Both Andree Guelen and Jozef Walaszczyk lived over 100 years and were named Righteous Among the Nations by Yad Vashem.

by Karni Eldad

Betrayed by the Nazis, Luciano Camerino was deported from Rome to Auschwitz where he survived Mengele's horrific experiments. He returned to Italy and rebuilt the Jewish community.

by Dr. Yvette Alt Miller

Harry Haft’s shocking true story, portrayed in HBO’s new Holocaust film, The Survivor.

by Menucha Chana Levin

Only five Americans were honored by Yad Vashem as Righteous of the Nations. This is the story of two of them.

by Dr. Yvette Alt Miller

A new documentary tells the story of a grotesque romance that saved lives.

by Ann Goldberg

My grandfather was one of the 60,000 Jews whose nightmare continued once he made it to the UK during the Holocaust.

by Rivka Ronda Robinson

Marion Lazan’s imagination kept up her spirits during dark times in Hitler’s death camp.

by Ann Goldberg

Just before WWII, Britain rescued 10,000 Jewish children from Nazi Germany, Austria and Poland, including my mother and her two sisters.

by Dr. Yvette Alt Miller

Spanish diplomat Angel Sanz Briz saved 5,000 Jews. Spain now is trying to contact their descendants.

by Rivka Ronda Robinson

Brave and determined, Aron Grunhut organized ship and railway transports to help Jewish refugees escape Hitler.

by Rivka Ronda Robinson

Pavel Peter Gojdic suffered mistreatment and humiliation for his outspoken defense of Jews during the Holocaust.

by Dr. Yvette Alt Miller

Born in the Radom ghetto and hidden in an orphanage, Dr. Charles Silver survived the Holocaust as a baby.

by Rivka Ronda Robinson

Trudy Naumann Dreyer was 7 when she and her family fled Germany in 1939. A German baron protected their property.

by Ann Goldberg

Eighty years later we discovered how my husband's grandmother survived the Holocaust.

by Yad Vashem

One woman's experiences in the Warsaw Ghetto, Majdanek, Auschwitz and Bergen Belsen, where she got married in the camp's first Jewish wedding.

by Menucha Chana Levin

With bravery and moral courage, a dock worker in Riga risked his life to save Latvian Jews.

by Dr. Yvette Alt Miller

Faye Schulman’s photographs are a rare glimpse into the life of Jewish partisan fighters during World War II.

by Malka and Leah Berger

After the Holocaust, I was an emaciated girl, spent physically, emotionally and mentally, facing a robust and cruel Russian soldier with no conscience. What chance did I have?

by Rivka Ronda Robinson

Lila Millen and her sister endured two years of terror and starvation in the Warsaw Ghetto, and were saved by a righteous gentile.