Marriage Inequality: A Struggle that is Nothing New

By Lia Mandelbaum
Published on April 16, 2013

German office to investigate 50 alleged Auschwitz guards

Published on April 8, 2013

A Nazi crimes agency in Germany will launch an investigation of 50 alleged former Auschwitz guards living in the country.

Hatred of Jews remains strong, Netanyahu and Peres tell Yom Hashoah rite

Published on April 8, 2013

The hatred of Jews is still strong more than 70 years after the Holocaust began, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and President Shimon Peres said at the national Yom Hashoah ceremony at Yad Vashem.

A Turkish Muslim perspective on Yom HaShoah

Published on April 8, 2013

When people of reason and conscience look back on the subject of Shoah (otherwise known as the Holocaust) today, it is common to hear questions like: "How could a nation of philosophers, composers of classical music, technology, poets, in this seat of the Enlightenment itself, suddenly give vent to savagery not seen since the Dark Ages? How could such dreadful, inhumane impulses seize every apparatus of a nation and cause it to commit such atrocities?"

Survivor initiative to thrive on common cents

Published on April 3, 2013

Sixty-eight years after being liberated from the horrors of the Holocaust, many aging survivors are living another nightmare — poverty without hope.

How the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum changed my life

By Michael Berenbaum
Published on April 3, 2013

My daughter, Ilana, then a young college student, asked if she could go with me to the opening of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, on April 22, 1993 (the date was tied to the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising’s 50th anniversary). I said: “I will be leaving very early.” She responded: “I’ll be up.”

$70 billion on, Claims Conf. marks 60 years of reparations from Germany

Published on July 12, 2012

When representatives of Israel, Germany and the newly created Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany met 60 years ago in Europe to hammer out a reparations agreement for the crimes of Nazi Germany, some Holocaust survivors were still living in Displaced Persons camps on the continent.

Putin in Israel for dedication, meetings

Published on June 25, 2012

Russian President Vladimir Putin, in meetings with Israeli leaders, discussed Iran, Syria and the stalled peace talks with the Palestinians.

British nun who saved Jews from Shoah on way to sainthood

Published on January 19, 2012

A British nun who saved dozens of Jews in Rome during the Holocaust has been advanced on the road to sainthood.

Lawyer urges federal investigation into attack on hasid

Published on June 1, 2011

The lawyer for a man badly burned during an alleged arson attempt in a New York hasidic village is asking the U.S. Department of Justice to investigate the incident as a hate crime. The May 22 attack in the village of New Square was "evocative of the Ku Klux Klan and Nazi Germany," wrote lawyer Michael Sussman in a letter sent last week to Attorney General Eric Holder, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo and state Attorney General Eric Schneiderman.

I object, I make waves

Published on April 26, 2011

My mother saw to it that we escaped from Nazi Germany intact, while a dozen family members, those who refused to leave, perished. That fact has impacted my life in various ways, both large and small.

Somebody had to make a start

By Jud Newborn
Published on February 14, 2008

Feb. 18 marks the 65th anniversary of the Gestapo arrest of Sophie Scholl and the White Rose in 1943. Then, on Feb. 22, their swift beheading after a show trial in Munich by Hitler's "Hanging Judge," Roland Freisler, who reviled them for daring to call their countrymen to action in the face of Nazi Germany's suspension of all civil rights and its mass murder of Europe's Jews.

My father, who was not a hero

By Tom Teicholz
Published on June 14, 2007

My father always said he wasn't a hero. "All the heroes are dead," he used to say. He said he just did what he had to under the circumstances.

Books: Part history, part mystery—the passengers of the S. S. St. Louis

By Michael Berenbaum
Published on April 12, 2007

Sarah Ogilvie and Scott Miller set a difficult task for themselves. Writing their book was easy. So, too, was researching what happened on the voyage of the St. Louis, the Hamburg-American line ship that traveled from Germany to Cuba in May 1939, carrying 937 passengers who were escaping Nazi Germany. The authors' greater challenge was to uncover the fate of the passengers after the ship had been turned away from numerous ports. Their dogged pursuit of all leads yielded some surprising results.

Reviews of “The Envoy” and “Hitler’s Head”

By Tom Tugend
Published on April 22, 1999

"You can't confront evil on its own ground without becoming part of it," muses diplomat Heinrich Zwygart in "The Envoy," and his self-recognition clearly applies to Switzerland, the country he represented faithfully in Berlin during the six years of World War II.