Holocaust Studies

by Michelle Halle, LCSW

Celebrating my grandson's bar mitzvah in the shadows of Kristallnacht.

by Dr. Yvette Alt Miller

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

by Adam Ross

For 200 days Tibor Spitz and his family hid in a hole during the freezing winter to evade the Nazis.

by Dr. Yvette Alt Miller

Francesco Lotoro has dedicated his life to uncovering thousands of pieces composed in concentration camps.

by Dr. Rafael Medoff

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

by Rona Tausinger and Israel Hayom

Prof. Mehnaz Afridi, a Pakistani Muslim, has been the director of the Holocaust, Genocide and Interfaith Education Center in New York for the past decade.

by Dr. Yvette Alt Miller

Benjamin Levin fought Nazis with Jewish partisans called The Avengers.

by Ellen Bachner Greenberg

My grandfather insisted on being buried in his Auschwitz uniform.

by JRoots

Live interviews and documentaries of survivors throughout the day, along with guest speakers and virtual trips for the whole family.

by Dr. Yvette Alt Miller

Truus Wijsmuller, an “ordinary” Dutch woman, ended up saving 10,000 Jews.

by David Muir Reports, ABC News

Few children were spared by the Nazis during the Holocaust. Some of these survivors share their memories of horror and stories of triumph.

by Dr. Yvette Alt Miller

Over poker games and whiskey, a group of idealistic men hatched a plan to rescue 1,200 Jews.

by Debbie Gutfreund

An anti-Semitic sergeant couldn’t stop a Holocaust survivor who heroically served in the US Army from getting his Medal of Honor.

by Michelle Halle, LCSW

Through his mother’s quick thinking, my uncle survived the Holocaust. But the older he got, the more reclusive he became.

by JNS.org and Eldad Beck

New documents shed light on the massive rescue effort of the Polish government-in-exile during World War II and unsung hero Ambassador Aleksander Ładoś.

by Andrea Seiden

With my elderly father, a survivor, a message of resilience and hope at NYC’s Museum of Jewish Heritage exhibit, “Auschwitz. Not long ago. Not far away.”

by Michelle Halle, LCSW

Despite being fortunate enough to escape Germany, my mother did not escape unscathed.

Mindful of the pledge I made to our murdered relatives and friends, I know I've done far too little.

by Judy Gruen

Dr. Edith Eva Eger, a Holocaust survivor and trauma expert, channels her experience to help others learn to move past suffering.

by Adam Ross

The Shtemler brothers survived the Holocaust hiding in monasteries disguised as Christian children. The youngest of the three boys tells his incredible story.

by Dr. Yvette Alt Miller

Renia Spiegel's diary is a crucial new Holocaust memoir.

by Rivka Ronda Robinson

Sam Weinreich rebuilt life from ashes of the Holocaust. He received more than 2000 cards celebrating his 100th birthday.

by Rivka Ronda Robinson

Anne Frank would have been 90 this year. A new documentary featuring Helen Mirren intertwines her story with five girls who survived the Holocaust.

by Dr. Yvette Alt Miller

The little known story is now being told.

by Rabbi Avi Shafran

Rabbi Yosef Friedenson served as a human bridge between the Jewish world that the Germans destroyed and the new one that came into being after the Holocaust.

by Adam Ross

How Abdol Hossein Sardari protected Iranian Jews in occupied-Paris from falling into the clutches of Nazi persecution.

by Rivka Ronda Robinson

For Werner Reich. magic sparked a crumb of hope during the Holocaust.

by Dr. Yvette Alt Miller

Witold Pilecki heroically volunteered to enter Auschwitz where he organized a secret resistance.

by Dr. Yvette Alt Miller

Henryk Ross risked his life to document Nazi atrocities in the Lodz Ghetto.

by Judy Gruen

Archiving the Jewish American past, Gregg Philipson collects to remember and to fight bigotry and anti-Semitism.

by Menucha Chana Levin

Margit (Gitta) Mallasz, swimming champion, artist and writer, saved 100 Jewish women and children in Budapest.

by Lori Samlin Miller

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

by Rabbi Shraga Simmons

Josef Levkovich’s dramatic encounters with the villain of Schindler’s List. An Aish.com exclusive.

by Adam Ross

Rabbi Menachem Mendel Taub, who carried the scars and memory of the Holocaust, has died in Jerusalem aged 96.

by Jody Berkel

There is no greater victory over the enemies of the Jewish people than living as proud, strong and connected Jews.

by Tswi J. Herschel

A gripping story that takes place in the Amsterdam ghetto, 1943 – as experienced by the author’s father.

by Adam Ross

Arik Brik was a young boy when he survived the Holocaust. He moved to Israel with his family where he reached great prominence.

by Adam Ross

Survivors testify about an epic Seder held in underground bunkers as the Nazis sought to liquidate the last Jews of Warsaw Ghetto.

by Rabbi Ari Bensoussan and NesProductions

Why do we celebrate that in every generation enemies will try to eradicate the Jews?

by Menucha Chana Levin

How the football-playing Swiss policeman chose morality and compassion over his career.

by Erica Silver

As a child, the horrors of the Holocaust mirrored the incendiary chaos of my home life.

by Dr. Yvette Alt Miller

John and Amy Israel Pregulman have made it their mission to help elderly Holocaust survivors.

by Rabbi Shraga Simmons

After surviving the horrors of the Holocaust, Yantu Weisz lived independent and strong till age 109.

by Elliott Smith

Through faith and courage, John and Sonja Franken’s love was meant to be.

by aish.com

Vilma Grunwald’s haunting letter to her husband, written right before her murder.

by Dr. Yvette Alt Miller

A bestselling novel is reminding readers of real-life cases of Italian heroism in the face of danger.

by Dr. Yvette Alt Miller

Four remarkable stories that some Muslims don’t want to be publicized.

by aish.com

This French Jewish hero recently died at the age of 108.

by Menucha Chana Levin

Eberhard and Donata Helmrich were a heroic, righteous couple who risked their lives to save Jews.