By the end of WWII, millions had been killed across Europe. By Mark CartwrightHistorian Introduction The leader...
Holocaust
The Holocaust was Nazi Germany’s systematic persecution and murder of six million European Jews, amid a wider campaign of violence against other targeted groups. Read how the genocide was carried out and how the experiences of victims and survivors have been documented.
Richard Strauss did not specify what precisely his music was attempting to remember. By Jeremy EichlerClassical Music...
When individuals were depicted, it was most often through an antisemitic lens. By Dr. Wolf GrunerProfessor of...
The laws were another phase of Adolf Hitler’s ‘solution’. By Mark CartwrightHistorian Introduction The Nuremberg Laws of September 1935...
Turning to wordless witnesses to learn more: pictures. Introduction The summer of 2022 marked the 80th anniversary of...
Online archives offer another possible approach – direct links to the historic truth. One in four American...
The Pope and the president both opted to look away from the greatest humanitarian crisis of our...
A woman tells the story of her Holocaust survival through her embroidered art. “I am not going...
Latson’s claim that he could not admit the Holocaust is a historical fact is not only unacceptable,...
Seventy-seven years ago, a telegram bearing a horrifying and unforgettable message reached America’s foremost Jewish leader. It...
Widely held beliefs in eugenic “science” and pervasive fear of foreigners led the US Congress to pass...
Executions of Jews by German army mobile killing units (Einsatzgruppen) near Ivangorod, Ukraine / Wikimedia Commons The Holocaust...
Haj Amin al-Husseini meeting with Adolf Hitler (28 November 1941). By Bundesarchiv, Bild 146-1987-004-09A / Heinrich Hoffmann / CC-BY-SA...
An einsatzgruppen murder in Kursnik, Poland in 1939. / German State Archives By Dr. Edward B. Westermann / 02.16.2018 Professor...