The Strange Case of a Nazi Who Became an Israeli Hitman

Otto Skorzeny, one of the Mossad’s most valuable assets, was a former lieutenant colonel in Nazi Germany’s Waffen-SS and one of Adolf Hitler’s favorites. On September 11, 1962, a German scientist vanished. The basic facts were simple: Heinz Krug had been at his office, and he never came home. The

Holocaust heroine’s will, lost photos, unearthed in Scotland

A Holocaust heroine’s last will and testament has been unearthed in church archives in Scotland, offering a glimpse into the incredible life of Jane Haining, who died in Auschwitz in 1944. The handwritten will and previously unpublished photographs were recently found in a box in the Church of Scotland World

Renny Rychter and John Glass discussed March of the Living

Renny Rychter and John Glass discussed March of the Living.

Holocaust Survivors’ Needs Grow, and Aid Is Slow to Catch Up

BUDAPEST — Agnes Galgoczi, 84, can no longer make it to the toilet on her own. It sits in the kitchen of her apartment in Budapest, just three feet from the bed, where she sings to herself to fight loneliness. Several blocks away, Vera Varga, 78, slides decades-old movies into

Holocaust survivor shares story of those who hid her from the Nazis

The year was 1940 when the Nazis were rounding up Jewish women and children. Monique’s mother and father decided to give up their daughter to a Catholic family so she could have a better chance at survival. 9/14/16 (Monique Ritter)   LAS VEGAS (KSNV News3LV) — Monique Ritter’s story is one

U.S. begins paying out reparations from France to Holocaust survivors and their heirs

The State Department has paid or approved 90 claims for a total $11 million in reparations from France to former World War II prisoners who were carried to Nazi death camps in French trains — the first French reparations paid to Holocaust survivors living in the United States, officials said Thursday.

Seeking Holocaust reconciliation in Lithuania, from Los Angeles

The Museum of Genocide Victims in Vilnius, the capital of Lithuania, occupies a stately stone building on a large, forested park in the city’s center. It is notably not a Holocaust museum. To find the Holocaust Exposition, look for a small, clapboard wooden building on a narrow side street. Instead,

‘If I Sleep for an Hour, 30 People Will Die’

  The Forger: Video As a teenager, Adolfo Kaminsky saved thousands of lives by forging passports to help children flee the Nazis. He spent his life helping others escape atrocities around the world.   PARIS — It’s 1944, in occupied Paris. Four friends spend their days in a narrow room atop a

Holocaust survivor reunited with son of her saviour

Mala Tribich was 14 when Dr Rosensaft saved her life through an act of kindness and 70-years on, she continues to pay tribute A Holocaust survivor has spoken of her joy at being reunited with the son of the doctor whom she credits with saving her life. Mala Tribich was

Dolls snatched from Jewish sisters during Holocaust preserved by three generations of French family

PARIS — On a bleak February day in 1944, a French gendarme snatched a pair of dolls from two Jewish sisters about to be deported to Auschwitz, and flung them to the ground. Denise and Micheline Levy were 10 and nine when they were bundled out of their school in