Holocaust survivors
He recorded hours of survivor testimony in 1946.
“A living word from a dead world.”
A reflection on a mother’s recollections of the Holocaust.
Survivors have lower-than-expected levels of the stress hormone cortisol.
H. G. Adler is best known (to the extent that he is known at all) for his sociological studies of the Holocaust. But he also. . .
A full-page New York Times advertisement bearing 327 signatures proves that, where defamation of Israel is concerned, moral coarseness knows no bounds.
In today’s contest for most-favored-victim status, Holocaust survivors and beneficiaries of the GI Bill have been relegated to the ranks of the unfairly privileged.
In one of the most powerful Holocaust memoirs ever written, Otto Dov Kulka, at age eighty, recalls himself as a ten-year-old child at Auschwitz-Birkenau.
Seventy years ago, Rosh Hashanah marked the beginning of Denmark’s three-week operation to smuggle 7,000 Jews, marked for extinction, across the sea to Sweden and safety.
Vibrant Jewish communities were reborn in Europe after the Holocaust. Is there a future for them in the 21st century?
Aristides de Sousa Mendes saved 30,000 from Nazi persecution by issuing them Portuguese visas. Last month, survivors returned to Portugal to honor the memory of their rescuer.
The music and poems composed in the concentration camps enabled Jews to assert their humanity even as it was forcibly stripped away.
In once vibrant communities in Italy and Greece, only a few dozen Jews remain. But the connection is strong to the Jewish people and the Jewish state.
For decades, the Holocaust was a taboo subject in Israel. But today, as the number of survivors dwindles, Israel is working to ensure that memory,. . .