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Holocaust
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Germany Is Often Praised for Facing Up to Its Nazi Past. But Even There, the Memory of the Holocaust Is Still Up for Debate
By Jacob S. Eder
What Translating a Firsthand Account of Life in Auschwitz Taught Me About the Language of Suffering
By David Colmer
A Surprisingly Large Percentage of Young French People Don't Know About the Holocaust, Study Finds
By Olivia B. Waxman
The Persecution of the Roma Is Often Left Out of the Holocaust Story. Victims’ Families Are Fighting to Change That
By Rachael Bunyan
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Holocaust
The Man Who Died Pursuing Nazi Criminals More Than Four Decades After World War II Ended
Read an excerpt from 'Citizen 865: The Hunt for Hitler’s Hidden Soldiers in America'
By Debbie Cenziper
November 12, 2019
What We Can Learn About Being Good From a Village That Saved Thousands During the Holocaust
Several years ago, I went off to research a remarkable community that has a history of sheltering vulnerable outsiders. I went looking for clues to how a community like that operates. I hoped I could...
By Maggie Paxson
September 19, 2019
The U.S. War Refugee Board Helped Rescue Thousands During the Holocaust—Despite Franklin Roosevelt
The remarkable story of FDR’s turnabout sheds light on America’s response to the most horrific humanitarian crisis of our time
By Rafael Medoff / History News Network
January 25, 2019
Study Reveals Just How Much—And How Little—Canadians Really Know About the Holocaust
A full 22% of Millennial respondents were less that totally sure that they'd ever heard or seen the word "Holocaust"
By Lily Rothman
January 24, 2019
'It's Not That the Story Was Buried.' What Americans in the 1930s Really Knew About What Was Happening in Germany
An issue of TIME from 1933 helps lead to a key insight, explains a curator from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
By Lily Rothman
July 10, 2018
Most Americans Believe the Holocaust Could Happen Again
The results were released in time for Holocaust Remembrance Day
By Lily Rothman
April 12, 2018
The Youngest Schindler's List Survivor Says She Still Feels 'Guilty'
Eva Lavi, now 81, says she often wonders why she was saved
By Laignee Barron
February 1, 2018
A Young Holocaust Victim Left Behind a Clue That Would Reunite Her Family Decades Later
The finding of a pendant with a possible link to Anne Frank at the site of a concentration camp has led to an unlikely family reunion
By Olivia B. Waxman
November 12, 2017
Growing Up Jewish on Hitler's Block: 'Our Neighbor's a Dangerous Man'
In this excerpt from 'Hitler, My Neighbor,' Edgar Feuchtwanger recalls growing up in Munich in the lead-up to Germany's 1930 elections
By Edgar Feuchtwanger and Bertil Scali
November 7, 2017
Retailers Remove Anne Frank Halloween Costume After Backlash
"We should not trivialize her memory as a costume"
By Katie Reilly
October 16, 2017
New York Jewish Museum Will Recreate Trial of Nazi War Criminal
New York's Museum of Jewish Heritage will recreate the iconic trial of a Nazi war criminal in a new exhibit opening Sunday. Adolf Eichmann was the chief logistician of the Holocaust. His work included planning...
By Lavinia Liang
July 14, 2017
'I Felt Elated.' Holocaust Survivors Make Gains in Latest Negotiations With German Government
After negotiations in early July, the German government and organizations representing survivors reached a new agreement on compensation
By Lily Rothman
July 12, 2017
Suspect Arrested for Shattering Glass Panel on Boston Holocaust Memorial
The man might face civil rights charges
By Katie Reilly
June 28, 2017
Were These Holocaust Survivors Forced Into a Ghetto? The Answer Will Determine Their Financial Future
Decades later, negotiators are still deciding whether the survivors of the Iasi pogrom lived in a ghetto
By Lily Rothman
June 28, 2017
How Anne Frank's Diary Survived
Read an excerpt from LIFE’s new special edition about Anne Frank's life and legacy
By Daniel S. Levy / LIFE Books
June 12, 2017
'Either We Go or We Burn Right Here': A Survivor Remembers the Warsaw Ghetto
Sonia Klein was a teenager in hiding during the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising of 1943
By Lily Rothman
May 16, 2017
Trump Calls Holocaust Deniers 'Accomplices to Evil'
President Trump took a strong stance against anti-Semitism at a Holocaust remembrance ceremony, denouncing Holocaust deniers and pledging to support Jewish people. "That is why we are here today: to remember and to bear witness,"...
By Tessa Berenson
April 25, 2017
'Never Again.' President Trump Acknowledged the 6 Million Jews Killed in the Holocaust
"On Yom Hashoah, we look back at the darkest chapter of human history"
By Maya Rhodan
April 24, 2017
Inside the U.S. Effort to Find Nazi War Criminals Before It's Too Late
Eli Rosenbaum has spent nearly 40 years pursuing war criminals for the U.S. Justice Department. Just don't call him a Nazi hunter
By Lily Rothman
April 21, 2017
U.N. Archives on Nazi War Crimes to Be Made Public
These files include early evidence of Holocaust atrocities that were smuggled out of eastern Europe
By Kevin Lui
April 17, 2017
John Oliver: Sean Spicer's Holocaust Comments Were '$200 Question on 'Jeopardy' Wrong'
“Everybody knows mass chemical extermination was kind of Hitler’s thing,“ John Oliver said
By Melissa Locker
April 17, 2017
Sean Spicer, Oscar Munoz and How to Bungle a Public Apology
Saying "I'm sorry" shouldn't be so hard
By Jeffrey Kluger
April 12, 2017
Le Pen: France 'Isn't Responsible' for World War II Roundup of Jews
Far-right leader revived an old controversy at the weekend.
By Tara John
April 10, 2017
The Story Behind 'The Zookeeper's Wife' and 5 Other Little-Known Holocaust Heroes
They risked their lives to save others
By Olivia B. Waxman
March 31, 2017
How
The Zookeeper's Wife
Finds a New Perspective on the Holocaust
The movie shows war through different eyes—in more ways than one
By Eliza Berman
March 31, 2017
The Forgotten Stories of Muslims Who Saved Jewish People During the Holocaust
“They're an important reminder today, even more so given the rise of hatred"
By Melissa Chan
January 27, 2017
'Nazi Tweet' Backlash Against Philippine U.N. Ambassador
Petition calls for the rejection of his imminent appointment to the U.N.
By Tekendra Parmar
October 5, 2016
Rachel Weisz on the Frightening Reality of Holocaust Denial
In 'Denial,' the actress plays a real-life historian forced to take on a Holocaust denier
By Eliza Berman
September 23, 2016
Anti-Defamation League Blasts Donald Trump Jr. for 'Holocaust Joke'
"They’d be warming up the gas chamber right now,” he said
By Abigail Abrams
September 15, 2016
Heinrich Himmler's Lost Diaries Reveal Everyday Horrors of the Holocaust
Extracts published from Heinrich Himmler's gruesome diaries
By Kate Samuelson
August 2, 2016
There Are Just 100,000 Holocaust Survivors Alive Today
The youngest survivors today are around 71 years old
By Melissa Chan
July 3, 2016
Elie Wiesel Was the World’s Moral Compass
Thirty years ago, I traveled to Auschwitz with Elie Wiesel. I had been to the camp before. I had seen the barbed wire, the barracks, the guard towers. I had stood in the gas chambers...
By Ronald S. Lauder
July 3, 2016
'Action Is the Only Remedy to Indifference': Elie Wiesel's Most Powerful Quotes
"Action is the only remedy to indifference: the most insidious danger of all"
By Katie Reilly
July 2, 2016
Read Elie Wiesel's Nobel Peace Prize Acceptance Speech
'This both frightens and pleases me'
By Katie Reilly
July 2, 2016
Survivor on Nazi Trial Verdict: 'The Pain Never Goes Away'
"This lesson of history has to be learned"
By Katie Reilly
June 17, 2016
Thousands of Holocaust Victims' Personal Items Discovered Decades Later
The items had been unknowingly stored in cardboard boxes at the Polish Academy of Sciences for nearly 50 years
By Emma Ockerman
June 8, 2016
See the Religious Text the U.S. Government Printed for Concentration-Camp Survivors
It's considered to be the only edition of the Talmud ever printed by a national government
By Lily Rothman
May 5, 2016
Former Auschwitz Guard Apologizes: 'I Am Ashamed'
94-year old man is charged with 170,000 counts of accessory to murder
By Charlotte Alter
April 29, 2016
Christopher Plummer on Nazi Revenge Tale
Remember
and the Power of Shock Value
The legendary actor talks to TIME about his new movie and the value of shocking young people with the truth about their history
By Eliza Berman
March 7, 2016
Watch: Inside the Making of
Shoah
See an exclusive clip from the Oscar-nominated documentary 'Claude Lanzmann: Spectres of the Shoah'
By Lily Rothman
February 17, 2016
Inside One of the Last Nazi Death Camp Trials
The first days of the trial of 94-year-old alleged Auschwitz guard Reinhold Hanning show the anger that still remains over the death camps
By Eliza Gray/Detmold, Germany
February 12, 2016
Nazi War Criminal's Plea for Pardon Is Made Public for First Time
Adolf Eichmann was an SS orchestrator of concentration camps
By Daniel White
January 27, 2016
How Germany Got a Holocaust Remembrance Day
It was 20 years ago that Germany became the first European country to observe a Holocaust memorial day
By Lily Rothman
January 27, 2016
The Race to Prosecute the Last Surviving Nazis
The legal standard that allows such cases is less than a decade old
By Eliza Gray and Simon Shuster
January 20, 2016
Remembering the Women of Ravensbrück Concentration Camp
The site of the concentration camp near Berlin remains little known
By Anne Sebba / History Today
January 20, 2016
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