48 years since expulsion of Poland’s Jews

By Daniel Schatz This month marks the 48th anniversary of the state-sponsored anti-Semitic campaign of March 1968…

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Filmmaker Atom Egoyan’s Remember Captures Rage of Holocaust Victims

The Holocaust film Remember is set in the present. The thriller contains no flashbacks. It takes place entirely in North America. And yet Remember is also one of the…

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Henry Winkler’s Symbol Of Holocaust Survival Lives On In Hollywood

Henry Winkler, the Jewish actor best known as tough-talking Arthur Fonzarelli — aka, “The Fonz” — on the 1970s-80s TV show…

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Israeli Cycle Team to Honor Italian Tour De France Champ Turned Holocaust Hero

Two-time Tour de France winner Gino Bartali rode as a courier to help the Jewish resistance against the…

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Nassau Holocaust Center Gives Voice To Genocidal Rape Survivors

Women are often victims of sexualized atrocities during genocides. (Photos via Holocaust Memorial & Tolerance Center of Nassau…

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Teacher Uses Skype To Teach Students about the Holocaust

With the help of Skype, a Virginia history teacher is passing on the story of his family’s escape from the Holocaust during…

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Meir Dagan: From the shadow of the Holocaust to the top of the Mossad

When news of Meir Dagan’s death broke, Mossad chief Yossi Cohen expressed…

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New museum honors Poles killed for helping Jews in Holocaust

Soldiers stand guard at the flower-covered grave of the Ulma family, a couple with six small children, who…

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The Holocaust and Jewish identity

Bernie Sanders is the most successful Jewish candidate for the presidency ever. It’s a rare sign of the health of our…

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Pope Francis Schedules Auschwitz Visit for July

The pope will visit the former Nazi death camp as part of a five-day trip to Poland to mark the Catholic Church’s World Youth Day.

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