Holocaust survivor Pina Frassineti Wax, honored at age 100 by Senator Chuck Schumer, shared how she and her family hid in a convent during World War II, with her brother disguising as a nun to avoid Nazi detection.

Kai Höss discovered in fifth grade that he was related to Rudolf Höss, the notorious Auschwitz commandant, after seeing the name in a history book.

Yad Vashem has launched a new audiovisual installation at the Valley of the Communities, using light, sound, and animation to honor over 5,000 Jewish communities destroyed or affected by the Holocaust. 

At just 10 years old, Joseph Berger had survived bombings, Nazi interrogations, and the horrors of Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. 

Pina Frassineti Wax, a 100-year-old Holocaust survivor, was honored on Long Island for her extraordinary resilience during World War II.

Sara Moses, a Holocaust survivor who endured the horrors of Bergen-Belsen as a child, passed away on March 30, 2025, at the age of 86 in Denver, Colorado. 

Eighty years after Buchenwald’s liberation, 20-year-old German drama student Kaethe Lange joined 30 young French and German participants in a Holocaust remembrance performance. 

In 1941, seven-year-old Riva Hirsch and her family fled their home in Novaseletz, Romania, after a friend warned them of impending danger, but they were soon captured by the Nazis.

Over spring break, Penn State students in a Holocaust studies course traveled to Latvia and Lithuania to witness firsthand the impact of the Holocaust on Jewish communities in the Baltics. 

While the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising is a well-known example of armed Jewish resistance during the Holocaust, another powerful form of defiance came from the Oyneg Shabes group. 

At just seven years old, Eva Schapira was attacked by Nazi youth while leaving her Jewish school in Bamberg, Germany. 

During Kristallnacht in November 1938, Nazis violently attacked Jewish homes, schools, hospitals, and destroyed over 1,400 synagogues and 7,000 businesses across Germany, Austria, and the Sudetenland. 

Lola Hassid Angel, a Holocaust survivor from Greece, remained silent for much of her life about the atrocities she witnessed as a child during World War II.

Rodi Glass, a Holocaust survivor born in Amsterdam in 1936, will share her story via live video conference on April 23 at Cornell College.

As Passover approaches, a time when Jews remember their liberation from slavery and the Angel of Death passing over their homes, a poignant musical tribute was performed at the New England Conservatory’s First Mondays concert.

Varian Fry was an American journalist who helped save over 2,000 Jews and anti-Nazi refugees from Vichy France during World War II, including artists, writers, and intellectuals. 

After Morris’s death, his family discovered a forgotten side of him through decades-old Kodak slides showing a stylish, confident man so different from the one they knew in Kirkland basics. 

Kristallnacht in November 1938 marked a violent escalation of Nazi antisemitism, as thousands of Jewish homes, businesses, schools, and over 1,400 synagogues were destroyed.

As the world marks 80 years since the liberation of Nazi camps, historians are reassessing how Holocaust museums present graphic imagery. 

A new report warns that 70% of Holocaust survivors will be gone within the next 10 years, and 90% within 15, leaving just around 21,300 survivors worldwide by 2040. 

At 92, Arnold Klebbs is returning for the first time to Birkenau, where he was liberated 80 years ago on May 5 by the American Army. 

As the world observes Yom HaShoah, NBC News’ Jesse Kirsch reveals never-before-seen children’s books handmade by a Jewish couple hiding from the Nazis during WWII. 

Eighty years after the Holocaust, more than 200,000 survivors remain, but 70% will be gone within the next decade, highlighting the urgency to preserve their stories. 

Dov Eichenwald, a child of Holocaust survivors, reflects on the lasting imprint of his father's suffering and the resilience that sustained their family. 

The SS Marine Flasher brought the first Holocaust survivors to the U.S. after WWII, including the seven Weber siblings who arrived in May 1946. 

Holocaust survivor Eve Kugler, born in 1931 in Halle, Germany, passed away Wednesday night in London at age 93.