Holocaust rescue

Albanian Jewry Gets Its Own Museum

A rich 1,800-year history.

Avi Kumar
Dec. 22 2022 12:01AM

The Portuguese Consul Who Lost Everything to Save Thousands of Jews from Hitler

Aristides de Sousa Mendes.

Jane M. Friedman
Dec. 5 2022 12:01AM

How the Treasury Department Exposed the State Department’s Efforts to Stifle Reports about the Holocaust

And to keep Jews from leaving Europe.

Andrew Meier
Sept. 30 2022 12:01AM

As the Nazis Closed In, Sigmund Freud Refused to Leave Vienna until It Was Almost Too Late

“I can heartily recommend the Gestapo to everyone.”

Patrick Blanchfield
Sept. 23 2022 12:01AM

The Fake Disease That Saved a Group of Roman Jews from the Nazis

Syndrome K.

Stephen Silver
Aug. 25 2022 12:01AM

How Two British Opera Buffs Spent the War Years Rescuing Jews from the Nazis

Frugal, modest civil servants, neither worldly nor political—but willing to take risks.

Phyllis Chesler
Aug. 3 2022 12:01AM

The Little-Known Tale of the Jews Who Tunneled Out of a Ghetto to Fight against the Nazis

The other great escape.

Yehuda Geberer
July 28 2022 12:01AM

The Bosnian-Muslim Family Who Saved Jews from the Nazis—and Who Were Later Rescued in Return

A new film tells the story of Zejneba Hardaga.

Daria Sito-Sucic
June 21 2022 12:01AM

Remembering a Polish Jew Who Helped Smuggle Hundreds of His Coreligionists Out of Nazi-Occupied France

Justus Rosenberg.

Shira Hanau
Dec. 10 2021 12:01AM

The Founder of Hadassah Invigorated American Zionism and Brought Thousands of Jewish Children to the Land of Israel

Henrietta Szold.

Jenna Weissman Joselit
Sept. 14 2021 12:01AM

Henrietta Szold: The Great Zionist and Philanthropist Who Founded Hadassah

The “mother of Youth Aliyah.”

Amy Spiro
June 7 2021 12:01AM