Pete grew up in Essen, a major industrial city on Germany’s Ruhr River. His father worked as a cattle hide dealer for an international trading company in nearby Mühlheim. His mother was a designer for ...

An Annual Commemoration The United Nations has designated January 27, the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau, as a time to remember the six ...

In anticipation of both the Winter Olympics and the Summer Games, Hitler directed that signs stating "Jews not wanted" and similar slogans should be removed from primary traffic arteries. In some ...

Alfred Münzer was born in 1941 to a Jewish family during Nazi Germany’s occupation of the Netherlands. Trying to keep the family safe, his parents arranged to ...

Irene Weiss was born Perl Ruchel Fogel on November 21, 1930, in Bótrágy, Czechoslovakia (now Batrad’, Ukraine). Her father, Meyer Fogel, owned a lumber yard. Her mother, Leah Fogel, managed their home ...

10. Colored pencil drawing of the final red train cars passing through a concentration camp gate murdered in Auschwitz concentration camp. It depicts a line of red cattlecars entering the gate of a ..

For years, they could not speak about the Holocaust. Teenagers Ruth Cohen, Steven Fenves, and Irene Weiss were deported in crowded cattle cars to Auschwitz-Birkenau with 430,000 other Jews from ...

Professional boxing was among the few integrated sports in the United States, and prize-fighter Joe Louis was a hero to American Blacks. On June 19, 1936, after rain postponed the fight a day, the ...

Jewish resistance during the Holocaust is still mostly understood as rare armed-group opposition in the Nazi-occupied east. New research based on a broader definition of resistance, including ...