Books: Wartime memoir a lesson in finding family treasures

By Michael Berenbaum
Published on March 6, 2008

Over the past several years, a new genre of original Jewish documentation has emerged in closets and attics of Holocaust survivors. The documentation has all the authority of the diaries and notes that were written in situ, within the ghettos, within hiding, even within concentration camps and elsewhere during the Holocaust.

Survivors blast Holocaust Museum over archive access restrictions

By Edwin Black
Published on May 17, 2007

Holocaust survivors are venting their anger at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington over its decision not to allow immediate electronic access to the long-secret records of the International Tracing Service at Bad Arolsen, Germany.

Whose Nuremberg Laws are they?

By Tom Teicholz
Published on May 17, 2007

How the Nuremberg Laws came to California in the possession of Gen. George S. Patton, who left them to reside first at the Huntington Museum and Library in Pasadena and now at the Skirball, is a story explored in the recently released book, "Bloodlines: Recovering Hitler's Nuremberg Laws From Patton's Trophy to Public Memorial" by Anthony M. Platt and Cecilia E. O'Leary" (Paradigm).

PBS docudrama to reveal secret files of Inquisition

By Tom Tugend
Published on May 3, 2007

The announcement piqued the immediate interest of independent, Seattle-based filmmaker David Rabinovitch, and he started the long, torturous road of recreating the history of the Holy Office of the Inquisition, from its beginning in the early 13th century to its final gasps in the late 19th century. The result is the four-hour miniseries, "Secret Files of the Inquisition," which PBS stations will air May 9 and 16, from 9 p.m. to 11 p.m.