A tapestry honoring Zivia Lubetkin, a Jewish underground leader during the Holocaust, hangs in the Center for Visual Arts at Kent State University as part of "Holocaust Heroes: Fierce Females," a ...

On this date in history, Jan. 27, 1945, the infamous Nazi German slave labor and death camp, Auschwitz-Birkenau, was liberated by the Soviet army. The day recalls the killing of six million Jews as ...

Holocaust Heroes Worldwide (HHW) was honored to take part in the Torah Project. It was an extraordinary and inspiring gathering of Holocaust survivors ages 83-100 who were joined in Hollywood by ...

The theme for this year’s Spokane Community Observance of the Holocaust writing and art contests is “Young Heroes of the Holocaust.” Middle school and high school students from the region are invited ...

For the 18th year, the Eva Lassman Memorial Writing Contest has put out the call to young writers to study and draft an essay or poem on the Holocaust. The theme of this year’s contest is “Young ...

In June 1940, Aristides de Sousa Mendes, Portugal’s consul general in Bordeaux, France, watched from his office window as a stream of Jewish men, women and children flooded his sidewalk. Hitler’s army ...

Violinist Erik Ghukasyan performs at the Auschwitz concentration camp site in the documentary 'Symphony of the Holocaust.' The Hungarian violin prodigy Shony Alex Braun endured countless horrors in ...

Martin Gilbert, Winston Churchill's biographer and author of eight books on the Holocaust, recounts in "The Righteous" stories of hundreds of non-Jews during World War II who "risked their lives and ...

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