Holocaust Archives

Social Justice

The Painting That Saved My Family From the Holocaust

A frightened young woman left her apartment in Munich in November 1938 and returned with the visa that saved her family. A team of German journalists launched an improbable search to find the missing artwork and tell its story.

Stephen Engelberg

Environment

Could Climate Change Trigger Another Genocide?

Historian and author Timothy Snyder discusses climate change, genocide, and the ideology of Hitler.

Brian Palmer

News in Brief

20 Years After Rwanda, Why Is It Still So Hard to Stop Genocide?

Our brains are better equipped to process isolated tragedies, while international laws make it easy to ignore anything that isn't the Holocaust.

Paul Hiebert

Economics

Among Men, Holocaust Survivors Live Longer Lives

A study of Polish emigrants to Israel found men who survived the Holocaust lived, on average, six months longer than those who avoided it.

Tom Jacobs

Social Justice

Demjanjuk Found Guilty of Nazi War Crimes

Even with the passage of time, the idea that “foot soldiers” responsible for the Holocaust — even in a small way — must pay their accounts remains alive.

Michael Todd