Holocaust

• Box Car

  How did the Nazis transport people to the death camps? They used railroad Box Cars, which were essentially freight cars that trains used to transport cargo. These cars had no ventilation and no sanitation facilities.

• British Schindler Nicholas Winton Dies at 106-2

  Most of us have heard of Oscar Schindler, especially because of the movie Schindler's List.

• Celebration of the 70th Anniversary of the Liberation of Auschwitz

  On January 27, 2015, the free world celebrated the 70th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz by the Soviet army.

• Child Holocaust Survivor Describes Rescue by Righteous Among the Nations

  Lea Paz, née Weitzner, was born in 1930 in Lwow. This is her story.

• Christian Teacher Saving Lives of Jews

  Jane Haining was a rural farmer’s daughter from Dumfriesshire, Scotland who excelled in foreign languages in school and started her career in

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• Dachau and Yad Vashem

  Dachau, Munich Area, Germany

  The barracks and lavatories were drab grays and browns, concrete and bricks, lifeless, seemingly unfit for human use. One could still run fingers over the “ovens” and through the ashes, and gaze

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• Dear Mirele - A letter of the Holocaust From a Mother to a Daughter

  This is a heartwarming letter written by a mother to her daughter at the height of the Holocaust.

• Did Jews Fight the Nazis During WWII?

  Did Jews go like sheep to the slaughter during World War II?

• Does Nothing Remain? Holocaust Survivors' First Moments of Liberation

  In this video Dr. Na’ama Shik provides an introduction to the complexity of liberation and the physical and emotional state of the survivors during the early days following the horrific atrocities.

• Dr Michal Majercik

  Janka-Hetty Fisch of Bratislava was seven years old in 1939 when Slovakia became an "independent" state under the patronage of Nazi Germany. Numerous anti-Jewish decrees were imposed on the Jewish community. Her family was evicted from

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• Everyday Life in the Ghettos

  What was it like for the Jewish people who were forced into ghettos by the Nazis?

• Execution of Nazi Frankenstein Josef Blosche

  A most famous picture from the Holocaust is that of a young boy with his hands raised while a Nazi guard points a rifle at the boy.

• Glimpses of Jewish Life Before the Holocaust

  What was life like in Jewish communities in Europe before the Holocaust?

• Helena Sitkowska

  In 1939 Helena Sitkowska was a widow, a retired teacher, and a mother of two: 15-year-old Andrzej and 10-year-old Magda. The family lived in Bielany, a precinct of Warsaw. Before, in the 1930s, they led a rather comfortable life but

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• Hitler's "Great Man": Reversing the Legacy

  In 1925 Adolf Hitler published his notorious two-volume manifesto titled Mein Kampf (My Struggle). It was an autobiographical book written in prison. This publication outlined Hitler’s ideology and aggressively

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• Holocaust Remembrance

  Holocaust Remembrance

  with Otto Starr

• Holocaust Remembrance Day

  Israel became a nation after the horrors done to the Jewish people during the Holocaust.

• Holocaust Remembrance with Marie Silverman

  Marie Silverman shares her story

• Holocaust Testimony - Otto Starr

  The Holocaust was the genocide of European Jews during World War II. 

• How Denmark Saved its Jews During the Holocaust

  One of the lessons to be learned form the Shoah is the extent to which human courage and caring, as evidenced by those who reached out to help the Jews, makes a difference.