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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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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

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

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

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

'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

Most Americans Believe the Holocaust Could Happen Again

The results were released in time for Holocaust Remembrance Day

By Lily Rothman

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

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

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

Retailers Remove Anne Frank Halloween Costume After Backlash

"We should not trivialize her memory as a costume"

By Katie Reilly
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