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Investigators Are Turning to Big Data to Find Who Betrayed Anne Frank

Many experts believe that someone alerted Nazi authorities to the hiding place of Frank and her family, but the culprit has never been determined

October 4, 2017

Cloth Smuggled Out of Syrian Prison Bears Witness to Atrocities Wrought by the Civil War

The U.S. Holocaust Museum has received the cloth scraps, which bears the names of 82 inmates written in chicken bones, rust, and blood

August 15, 2017

Yisrael Kristal receiving his Guinness certificate

Candy maker Yisrael Kristal survived Auschwitz and celebrated his bar mitzvah 100 years after turning 13

August 14, 2017

Built in a World War II-era civilian bunker, the Berlin Story Museum includes a controversial replica of the bunker Adolf Hitler died in

Berlin Exhibit Confronts Hitler’s Rise to Power

Asking ‘Hitler—how could it happen,’ the exhibit warns the dangers of dictatorship

August 1, 2017

Dachau's gate had a chilling message for its inmates.

Georg Tauber’s paintings detail medical experiments, beatings and eventual liberation

July 31, 2017

These eyeglasses, which belonged to a prisoner at Auschwitz, are one of the more than 1,000 artifacts included in the traveling exhibition.

More than 1,150 objects make up the exhibition, which will travel to 14 cities in Europe and North America

July 26, 2017

Miklós Horthy at the annexation of south-east Czechoslovakia, Kassa (present-day Košice), 11 November 1938

History of Now

Why It Matters That Hungary’s Prime Minister Denounced His Country’s Role in the Holocaust

Is this tonal shift for real — or will the European nation continue to obfuscate its history?

July 21, 2017

France’s Simone Veil Will Become the Fifth Woman Buried in the Panthéon

It is an exceptional honor reserved for esteemed French citizens

July 5, 2017

This diary was kept by a French man who escaped Paris with his family during the Holocaust.

Eyewitness accounts bring the brutal chapter in history to life

June 13, 2017

This memorial to the victims of Nazi Germany's "euthanasia" program was erected in Berlin in 2000.

A research society is still coming to grips with its past—and learning more about how the Third Reich targeted people with disabilities

May 5, 2017

Men liberated from concentration camp, 1945

The massive archive has already revealed that war crimes charges against Hitler were drawn up as early as 1944

April 19, 2017

Marine Le Pen Denies State’s Role in Deporting French Jews During WWII

Approximately 13,000 Jews were arrested by French authorities in July of 1942

April 10, 2017

The Mime Who Saved Kids From the Holocaust

Marcel Marceau is history’s most famous mime, but before that, he was a member of the French Resistance

March 22, 2017

Group with flags in the forest: Michael Walter, Miklos Roth, Szlama Weichselblatt, Avram Leder, Halina Bryks, Naftali Steinberg, Roman Kniker, Jakob Kahan

This Orphanage Did More Than Find Homes for Children of the Holocaust. It Helped Them Reclaim Their Humanity

Run by the United Nations, Kloster Indersdorf took a revolutionary approach in caring for its charges

March 14, 2017

Einstein enjoyed a 20-year friendship with African-American civil rights leader and actor Paul Robeson (far right). Also shown are former vice president Henry Wallace (left) and Lewis L. Wallace of Princeton University (second from right).

How Albert Einstein Used His Fame to Denounce American Racism

The world-renowned physicist was never one to just stick to the science

March 3, 2017

Egon Schiele’s “Woman Hiding Her Face” (1912)

Heirs of Holocaust Victim Invoke New Law in Suit Over Two Schiele Drawings

The family of Fritz Grunbaum claims the works were stolen by Nazis

March 2, 2017

The identity of the thieves remains a mystery

February 22, 2017

Hans Scholl, Sophie Scholl and Christoph Probst (pictured, left to right, in 1942) resisted the Nazis as members of the White Rose, a secret student group.

The White Rose was short-lived, but its words were hard to ignore

February 22, 2017

A proposed museum in the former Jewish ghetto in Vilnius, Lithuania, features portraits of families who once lived there.

The Holocaust’s Great Escape

A remarkable discovery in Lithuania brings a legendary tale of survival back to life

March 2017

In the summer of 1946, Holocaust survivors lent their voices to the "Henonville Songs," which psychologist David Boder recorded on this wire spool.

Spool of “Holocaust Songs” Found in Mislabelled Container

The “Henonville Songs” are being heard for the first time in 70 years

February 3, 2017