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How Hitler’s PERSONAL photographer captured for history the plight of the Jews in Nazi-occupied Poland
She has such natural beauty, she could pass for a movie star. She smiles, her demeanour relaxed. In normal times, this young woman would surely have enjoyed a bright and…
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Growing Up Absurd in Auschwitz
An immersion in Auschwitz during the mass murder frenzy of October 1944, when the gassing of Hungarian Jews had…
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The Fake Diamond Ring That Saved Jews From the Nazis
Inside a tiny box in a temperature-controlled, locked cabinet at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, there is a ring. It is not particularly beautiful, and in purely monetary…
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German cinema rediscovers Nazi hunter Fritz Bauer
BERLIN, Germany (AFP) — With two new films, German cinema has rediscovered the country’s fiercest Nazi hunter, former prosecutor Fritz Bauer, honoring a…
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Unearthing the Polish Underground’s Complex Past
It may be a good thing Joshua Zimmerman didn’t start researching his book “The Polish Underground and the Jews, 1939-1945” now. Even without the recent victory of right-wing Law…
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Holocaust memories stitched together, one panel at a time
LONDON – To mark the 70th anniversary of their parents’ and grandparents’ liberation from the Nazi concentration camps at the end of…
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The miracle babies of Mauthausen, 70 years later
LONDON — Wendy Holden thinks “Born Survivors” is the most important book she has ever written, and as the author of more…
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The American Papers that Praised Hitler
They fell hard for the job-creating Führer with eyes that were like ‘blue larkspur.’ Why did so many journalists spend years dismissing the evidence of his…
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