More than 30 years ago, Jack Montgomery, a lawyer at a firm in Portland, began working on a personal project that would consume substantial time, money, and energy. His goal was to tell the stories of ...

For decades, Donald Wittenberg spent much of his free time scrupulously documenting how the Holocaust affected people in the Philadelphia region and educating people to prevent anything like it from ...

Rabbi Shraga Feivel Mendlowitz, the American Mind, and his Contribution to the Educational Frontier of Israel (Part Three In a Series of Five, in commemoration of his Yahrzeit on the Third of Elul) ...

A local Holocaust survivor spoke up on the 87th anniversary of Kristallnacht, or the Night of the Broken Glass, when Nazis destroyed Jewish businesses, synagogues and hospitals in Germany. “I am ...

(RNS) — The Holocaust famously teaches us that what makes mass atrocities possible isn’t only the agency of the powerful — it’s the silence of everyone else. (RNS) — On Jan. 27, people around the ...

Since the ’90s, Rizy Horowitz has put on events and served food to survivors in Brooklyn. With fewer than 300 of them left at ...

(JTA) — Almost all of the Holocaust survivors alive today will be dead in 15 years, a new projection by a leading organization advocating for their compensation finds. While the timeline is something ...

Only 6% to 11% of Jewish children survived the Holocaust. Zelda Fuksman was one of them. Germany invaded her home country of Poland when she was just 4 years old and her family had to flee to the ...

The "Goonies" star revealed that his 108-year-old friend Risa Igelfeld, a Holocaust survivor who forged an unlikely ...

The Burlington Public Library will host the national Americans and the Holocaust Traveling Exhibition from Aug. 19 to Sept.