When her number was called, a teenaged Helga Melmed's head was shaved and stripped naked before the Auschwitz guards.

Oskar Jakob, 94, is a Jewish Holocaust survivor who once assembled V-1 flying bombs in a subterranean concentration camp, and ...

Knud Knud Jacobsen—devoted father, grandfather, great-grandfather, and proud American who never lost his Danish accent—passed ...

Movie re-enacts Auschwitz trials in mid-1960s, based on a play of the same name Director RP Kahl aims to engage younger ...

Several generations removed from the war, Glass worries that today’s youth don’t fully understand the horrors faced by Jewish ...

Kai Höss grew up knowing little about his family’s past. When he was in fifth grade, though, he stumbled upon a name in his ...

A 17th-century painting looted by the Nazis in 1940 from a Jewish art collector in Belgium will be returned to his ...

A collaboration between United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and JHU's Project Muse will allow digital access to the ...

As the German right ascends, the nation is still grappling with its fascist past — and how to handle its remains.

Mr. Kun arrived at Auschwitz, the Nazi killing center in occupied Poland, at the outset of the camp’s deadliest period.

She was born Maria Krystyna Janina Skarbek in 1908, into an aristocratic Polish-Jewish family ... of Nazi officers, with confessions she obtained used as evidence to help convict Rudolf Hess ...

But due to anti-semitic laws, the French authorities confiscated the proceeds, and family members – without money to escape – were later murdered at Auschwitz. Eighty years later, a North ...