A decorated German soldier in World War I, Richard Stern opposed Nazism from within. After fleeing, he joined the US Army at age 43, and soon became a hero there, as well…
Convicted in Poland for insulting the head of a friendly nation, Jewish hero Nahum Halberstadt was freed on Christmas Day
Only at the gates of Auschwitz did ‘vivacious brunette’ Hedwig Bernhard let go of the gift she received from Rainer Maria Rilke…
For two decades, one of the worst massacres of the Holocaust was all but forgotten
Freud himself refrained from publicly psychoanalyzing the despot. Dr. W. Beran Wolfe didn’t…
The unbelievable story of how 1,088 (or was it 1,122?) people flew aboard a single airplane as part of 1991’s Operation Solomon
Tunes from his childhood accompanied Yitzchak Freilich through the camps and on to his new life in America. Recorded by his son, they are now online as part of the National Library of Israel collection
In 1939, sickening accounts of impending genocide appeared on the same pages as cruise and resort promos
During the Nazi occupation, Muslims aided efforts to hide the origins of the local Jews, preventing the extinction of a community
In 1945 he left the infamous camp on a death march; 40 years later he came back – and left – a free man
