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Established in 1933 by Alfred Wiener, a German Jew decorated with the Iron Cross in World War I, the Wiener Library in London is the world's oldest Holocaust museum. (Courtesy)
June 3, 2018, 10:06 am
You’ve probably never heard of the world’s oldest Holocaust museum
Founded in 1933, London’s Wiener Library actively collected material in real time throughout WWII, later playing a key role in the Nuremberg, Eichmann and Irving trials
By Robert Philpot
Dana Rogozinski (right) with her grandmother Ella Lucak Rogozinski in 2015. (Courtesy)
May 1, 2018, 6:59 pm
Granddaughter of Holocaust survivors makes jewelry featuring Nazi tattoo numbers
Dana Rogozinski names company after her grandparents; aims to ‘spark important conversations’ through unique necklaces, bracelets, cuff links
By Renee Ghert-Zand
Carolin Lange inspecting the back/the frame of an oil painting. (Landesstelle für die nichtstaatlichen Museen in Bayern)
April 25, 2018, 9:00 am
Jewish ghosts linger as German households still make use of stolen heirlooms
Launching a new, unique, confidential study, Dr. Carolin Lange is trying to find out if and why Germans continue to hold on to everyday items taken from Jews during the Holocaust
By Dina Gold
Łódź ghetto photographer Mendel Grossman clandestinely photographing the deportation of Jews. The photo was taken by Grossman’s assistant, Aryeh Ben-Menachem. (Yad Vashem Archives)
January 24, 2018, 9:34 pm
Yad Vashem stages ambitious show of rare photos taken by Nazis and their victims
Ahead of International Holocaust Remembrance Day, Israel’s national Shoah museum focuses on the impact of thousands of now iconic images from ghettos, camps, and liberation
By Renee Ghert-Zand
Brunhilde Pomsel, a secretary from Josef Goebbels' propaganda office, in 'A German Life.' (Courtesy)
December 21, 2017, 2:04 pm
Shot in black and white, ‘A German Life’ paints WWII in chilling shades of gray
The film’s ‘star,’ a secretary to Goebbels who was in Hitler’s bunker at the very end, continues to deny culpability, still gets teary-eyed about the Fuhrer’s suicide
By Jordan Hoffman
A manuscript that includes astronomical calculators is displayed at the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research in New York, on October 24, 2017. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)
October 25, 2017, 12:10 am
Rare trove of papers believed lost in Holocaust go on display in US
Among Lithuanian documents on show at New York’s YIVO museum are Sholem Aleichem letters and a Marc Chagall postcard in Yiddish
By AP
Anne Frank, aged 12, at her school desk in Amsterdam, 1941. (Courtesy, Beyond the Story)
October 5, 2017, 12:19 pm
Can cyber technology solve the Anne Frank and Raoul Wallenberg mysteries?
Two American experts believe they can use the power of computation to make progress in the cold cases
By Cnaan Liphshiz
Curator Kyra Schuster, shows diaries laid on a table at the Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, Wednesday, June 7, 2017. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)
June 13, 2017, 3:10 am
US Holocaust Museum seeks funds to preserve war diaries
Memorial, which needs $250,000 for the project, will begin soliciting donations through Kickstarter
By Ben Nuckols
Avi Baumol
June 10, 2017, 2:22 am
Avi Baumol
A Polish school does teshuvah
The principal called roll with the roster from 1939, giving voice to the Jewish students who were kicked out that year
DP card. In a policy paper drafted on 18 November 1944, the Allies coined the term "Displaced Persons," prescribed how the survivors of Nazi terror were to be treated, cared for, and returned to their countries of origin. (ITS)
April 23, 2017, 11:28 pm
Vast German archive holds the secret to combating Holocaust denial
Increased access to 30 million documents housed in the International Tracing Service helps fuel research, combat revisionism and bring closure to victims’ families
By Renee Ghert-Zand
In this Dec. 5, 1931 file photo, Adolf Hitler, leader of the National Socialists, is saluted as he leaves the party's Munich headquarters. (AP, File)
April 21, 2017, 11:38 pm
Library to release catalog on World War II era documents
Archived files detail Allied efforts to prosecute thousands of alleged Nazi and Japanese war criminals, including Hitler
By DANICA KIRKA
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