Young twins sent to Auschwitz-Birkenau were sometimes spared immediate death for a gruesome fate: to become the subjects of medical experiments by Nazi doctor ...

The Museum’s David M. Rubenstein National Institute for Holocaust Documentation houses an unparalleled repository of Holocaust evidence that documents the fate of victims, survivors, rescuers, ...

An international leader in scholarship on the Holocaust, the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies provides for continued growth and vitality in the field of Holocaust ...

For years, they could not speak about the Holocaust. Teenagers Ruth Cohen, Steven Fenves, and Irene Weiss were deported in crowded cattle cars to Auschwitz-Birkenau with 430,000 other Jews from ...

Professional boxing was among the few integrated sports in the United States, and prize-fighter Joe Louis was a hero to American Blacks. On June 19, 1936, after rain postponed the fight a day, the ...

Enter at least the initial letter of the last or first name in the search box to see matching passenger names. Each resulting name is a link to information about that person. For a variety of reasons, ...

Campus Outreach Programs, a branch of the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies, supports the vitality of the field of Holocaust studies through deep engagement with ...

J. B. and Maurice C. Shapiro Annual Lecture Jewish resistance during the Holocaust is still mostly understood as rare armed-group opposition in the ...

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This photograph shows Auschwitz fence posts and a quote from ... Exhibition at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. "Never shall I forget that night, the first ...

In Number the Stars, ten-year-old Annemarie Johansen lives in Copenhagen, Denmark in 1943. Germany has occupied Denmark, and the danger has increased for Danish Jews. The Danish Resistance works with ...

Two weeks before the Olympics began, German officials informed Jewish athlete Gretel Bergmann that she was denied a place on the team, although she had equaled the German women's record in the high ...