Holocaust

Portraits of strength and hope at the Maccabi Games

Ten photographs capture Jewish athletes from around the world ahead of their celebratory march into the Waldbuhne amphitheater built by Hitler for the 1936 Olympics.

Jewish uprising at Treblinka commemorated

The last surviving prisoner of the Nazi extermination camp in Poland attended the ceremony marking the 72nd anniversary of the uprising’s outbreak.

How Bulgaria Stood Up to the Nazis and Saved Its Jews

On the eve of the Holocaust the Jewish population of Bulgaria was 48,000. At the end: 48,000. This isn’t a Holocaust tale like you’ve heard before. In late 1940, like most other European countries, a pro-Germany Bulgarian government passed Bulgaria’s first anti-Jewish laws. But unlike those countries, what followed were mass protests from a largely […]

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