That creates risks: the Holocaust didn’t begin with mass murder. The dehumanization of Jews progressed gradually from public exclusion to eventual internment to finally extermination. Millions of regular Germans—and Europeans more broadly—facilitated or silently accepted these actions.
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.
A 99-year-old Holocaust survivor said on Thursday he would return his federal order of merit award to the German state in protest over a parliamentary vote in which support from the far-right was used for the first time to secure a majority.
I feature my mother’s testimony in my teaching because it gives my students a direct link, through me, as my mother’s son, to the genocide that was the Holocaust, writes Menachem Z. Rosensaft.
Why did humans show so much hatred and indifference toward fellow humans during the Holocaust? Psychology provides some answers that have implications for today.
A traditionalist Catholic bishop whose denial of the Holocaust created a scandal when Pope Benedict XVI rehabilitated him has died. Richard Williamson was 84.
As Holocaust Remembrance Day is marked on Jan. 27, a town in southwestern Germany unflinchingly confronts its past and reaches out to Jews.
While commemorating Holocaust Memorial Day on Jan. 27, the Prince of Wales spoke to Holocaust survivors and remarked there was “a lot of history at this table”
King Charles and the Prince and Princess of Wales attended various events to observe International Holocaust Remembrance Day.
“ Here There Are Blueberries ,” now running at Princeton’s McCarter Theater, tells the real-life story of this photo album that emerged suddenly in 2007. An American intelligence officer working in Germany after the war found the album and eventually donated it the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington D.C.
Kate Middleton loves jewelry with significant meaning. On Monday, the Princess of Wales attended a Holocaust Memorial Day service in London, where she debuted a special five-strand faux pearl necklace ($341).