The Wannsee Conference was held on January 20, 1942, near Berlin, Germany. Fifteen high-level German officials from various ...

In his talk, Hoffmann explained how he lived his life before the invasion. He talked about his life in Poland through ...

The Holocaust was the first mass atrocity to be heavily photographed. The mass production and distribution of cameras in the 1930s and 1940s enabled Nazi officials and ordinary people to widely ...

I’ve never visited the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, made famous when Martin Luther King Jr. marched across it in ...

I’ve never visited the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, made famous when Martin Luther King Jr. marched across it in ...

The Bielski Partisans waged plenty of combat action against the Nazi scourge, much to the chagrin of the oppressors. January 27 was International Holocaust Remembrance Day, and to commemorate that ...

When enemy warplanes dropped bombs on the U.S. Naval Base in Hawaii and dragged this country into World War II on Dec. 7, 1941, Henry “Al” Shelleday of the ...

A cadre of American relief workers stood in harm’s way—and bent more than a few rules—to help those who were targeted by the ...

World leaders and a dwindling group of survivors joined in a ceremony to mark the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the ...

World leaders rubbed shoulders with 56 survivors of Hitler's death camp as they marked 80 years since its liberation.

The Auschwitz martyrs’ legacy of holiness continues to be a source of inspiration for Catholics worldwide. Here are several ...

In late 1939 and throughout 1940, the Germans created ghettos in all areas of occupied Poland, into which they rushed the ...