11+ hour, 3+ min ago  (389+ words) 86 middle schoolers turned Holocaust stories into art. Their work is stunning " and urgent. These images are among 86 original works that middle school students in Tennessee and Mississippi created for the Memphis Jewish Federation's 17th annual Holocaust Art Competition. Whether paintings, drawings,…...

3+ day, 14+ hour ago  (961+ words) Pearl Hinda Nagel survived the Lodz Ghetto, outlived the Nazis and turned 101. Here is what she wants you to know. Imagine the changes witnessed by someone born more than a hundred years ago, journeying from a 1924 childhood in the gas-lit,…...

4+ week, 14+ hour ago  (1260+ words) Herbert Heller survived Auschwitz, rebuilt his life in San Francisco, and spent his final years making sure the next generation never forgot. The Optimist tells his story. The Optimist, a powerful new film by San Francisco-area writer and director Finn…...

1+ mon, 2+ day ago  (1311+ words) My grandfather hid his family in the sewers of Nazi-occupied Lvov for 14 months. What kept them human down there is something I'm still trying to understand. What does a Jew do when the sky disappears? For years, that question was…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago  (497+ words) A fearless 27-year-old Jewish lawyer forced Hitler to squirm on the witness stand. Years later, imprisoned in Dachau, Hans Litten's defiance became a symbol of resistance. Hitler was on the witness stand for hours. He was flustered, sweating, stuttering and…...

2+ mon, 3+ day ago  (805+ words) Five powerful lessons from the life of Siggi Wilzig. The story of Siggi Wilzig's extraordinary life, portrayed in the biography Unstoppable by Josh Greene, is both heartbreaking and inspiring. There is so much to learn from his experiences surviving horrific…...

2+ mon, 1+ week ago  (1093+ words) She faced Hitler and refused to bow, helped build Israel, and survived October 7. The extraordinary life of Yocheved Gold, a century of quiet Jewish courage. Yocheved Gold, who recently died at the age of 102, lived a life that tracked the…...

2+ mon, 2+ week ago  (1245+ words) In the final days of WWII, one last, improbable battle unfolded inside a medieval castle where American soldiers and German defectors fought side by side against SS troops. By late April 1945, Hitler was dead, Germany was collapsing, and surrender was…...

4+ mon, 2+ week ago  (598+ words) In the Nazi camps women forged bonds that helped them survive the horror of the Holocaust. In the Nazi camps, where humanity was dismantled and death was carried out with chilling precision, survival often hinged not on strength but on…...

4+ mon, 2+ week ago  (1406+ words) They helped defeat the Nazis with microfilm tucked into gloves, messages woven into yarn, and intelligence smuggled by bicycle, ski, sewing needle, and hair ribbon. During World War II, as more than 127 million Allied men and women mobilized across continents,…...