Holocaust | War History

A24 Releases Trailer for Award-Winning Holocaust Film, ‘The Zone of Interest’

Sandra Hüller as Hedwig Höss in 'The Zone of Interest'

The official trailer for the World War II-era movie The Zone of Interest has been released by A24. The feature, which premiered at the Cannes…

Mass Piles of Shoes Represent the Number of Jewish Dead at Auschwitz

Piles of shoes on display at the Auschwitz Concentration Camp Museum

The Holocaust stands as one of the darkest chapters in human history, with six million Jews perishing during the Second World War. Beyond this staggering…

Gerda Weissmann Klein: The Holocaust Survivor Who Fell In Love With Her American Liberator

Gerda Weissmann Klein standing at a podium

While two people destined to fall for one another may seem like a thing of fiction, the story of Gerda Weissmann and Kurt Klein might…

The Germans Initially Planned to Send Jews to Madagascar – Then Decided Not To

How would the Second World War have played out if Nazi Germany went through with their proposed Madagascar Plan? The Madagascar Plan was the idea…

The Stories Behind History’s Most Iconic War Photos

Soldiers raising the American flag at Iwo Jima + Joseph Duo jumping in the air with a grenade launcher

For nearly two centuries, photographers have been using pictures to document the horrors of war. This has led to some of history’s most famous photos,…

The Netherlands Reshapes Its Understanding of History With Holocaust Museum and Memorial

The diary of Anne Frank has been the main focus for people considering the Netherlands’ role in World War II. Her story of hiding from…

Efraim Zuroff – Nazi Hunter Extraordinaire

Efraim Zuroff was born in Brooklyn and to this day he exhibits all the tough, streetwise attributes of his native New York and all of…

Mein Kampf royalties to go to Holocaust survivors

In 1923, Adolph Hitler wrote his infamous tome, “Mein Kampf” (My Struggle), while in jail for his part in the Beer Hall Putsch, a failed…

An Escape Tunnel is Located at this Holocaust Massacre Site

A group of archaeologists and mapmakers seems to have discovered a long-forgotten hand-dug tunnel. The 70-year-old tunnel, dug mostly by hand by 80 Jews, was…

Movie Denial on Legal Battle For Historical Truth Against David Irving Might Be An Award Contender

The acclaimed book “History on Trial: My Day in Court with a Holocaust Denier,” has been made into a film. The film, DENIAL, recounts Deborah E. Lipstadt’s…

94-year-old Man Sentenced for Involvement in Auschwitz

Reinhold Hanning, a former guard at Auschwitz, was sentenced to jail for being an accessory to the murder of at least 170,000 people in the…

Italian Paper Gives Away Copies of Mein Kampf – Shocks Italy

Il Giornale, a right-wing Italian tabloid, is giving away free copies of Mein Kampf, causing shock and condemnation in Italy. The anti-Semitic manifesto was written…