Holocaust

‘Queen of the Deuce’ documents how a Jewish refugee became Times Square’s queen of porn

“Queen of the Deuce” tells the unlikely story of Chelly Wilson, a Greek Jewish lesbian who narrowly escaped the Holocaust.

In Germany, Kristallnacht goes by a different name. Here’s why.

The word, which means “night of broken glass” in German, “has a pretty sound,” said a journalist who has studied Nazi-era terms.

Vermont state senator whose grandfather died in Holocaust wins congressional primary

Becca Balint is president pro tempore of Vermont’s senate. Her grandfather was killed during a forced march from the Mauthausen concentration camp in 1945.

Obituaries

Marvin Chomsky, director of the influential TV miniseries ‘Holocaust,’ dies at 92

Global

Zelensky offers new details about his family’s Holocaust history, igniting debate over Ukrainian Holocaust memory

Culture

Whoopi Goldberg returns to ‘The View’ after suspension over Holocaust comments, saying, ‘I listened’

Culture

Whoopi Goldberg says ‘The Holocaust isn’t about race’

New York

A Holocaust survivor spends her 110th birthday knitting — the craft that was key to her survival

Obituaries

Jack Feldman, Holocaust survivor who told his story in Emmy-winning documentary, dies at 95

Actors Milla Bankowicz and Robert Wieckiewicz portray members of the Chiger family trying to survive the Holocaust during filming in Lviv, Ukraine in 2011. (Courtesy of Sony Pictures Classics)

Global

Inspired by a 2011 movie, Ukrainian researchers have found the Lviv sewer where dozens of Jews escaped the Nazis

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