Memory & Action

Before leaving for a perilous mission into Nazi-occupied Hungary, Hannah Szenes handed a piece of paper to her comrade. It contained a…

He Later Supported Israel as a Permanent Safe Haven

Before the war, Catholic nanny Gertruda Babilińska cared for Michael Stołowicki, the young son of a Jewish family living in Warsaw. She…

It’s a story you may not know. During the Holocaust, sexual violence was used to terrorize, control, and dehumanize Jewish people. In the…

During World War II, Polish social worker Irena Sendler leveraged her vast network to smuggle food, medicine, and supplies into the Warsaw…

The boys in this photo were more than just neighbors — they were playmates, even friends before the Nazis took power. Unbeknown to them…

It’s some of the most indelible Holocaust imagery: a group of children wearing striped uniforms pulling back their sleeves to reveal…

By the time he turned 15, Peter Becker proudly considered himself “150 percent Nazi.” Peter grew up in Germany in the 1930s and 1940s…

A Yezidi woman documents her own people’s testimony about genocide.

February’s massive earthquake brought already grievous suffering to a new level in northwest Syria, an area held by the opposition to…

And why what is happening in China may be genocide