Holocaust
The search for Anne Frank’s betrayer
Canadian author Rosemary Sullivan’s new book describes the six-year investigation into how the Nazis learned about the Amsterdam annex where the Frank family hid during WWII
Canada was warned of the coming Holocaust. We turned away 900 Jewish refugees, anyway.
Canada knew. Britain knew. The U.S. knew. They knew because a Jewish trade unionist warned them what was coming. Today marks the 75th anniversary of his suicide.
Memo to tourists: Dachau is not Disneyland
Within Dachau’s walls, the crowds are frenetic, loud, and only generally aware that something significant surrounds them. How did it come to this?
The Polish Embassy in Ottawa responds to Jan Grabowski
The government of Poland challenges a recent article written by the University of Ottawa history professor—and Grabowski responds
The danger in Poland’s frontal attack on its Holocaust history
New legislation threatening prison time for anyone who talks about Poland’s complicity with the Nazi’s is just the latest dark turn in the country
Why Netanyahu’s revisionist Holocaust history helps no one
The Israeli prime minister’s recent lie about the roots of the tragedy will have dangerous, far-reaching implications
The migrant crisis: Warnings from the Holocaust
A historian warns that what killed millions in the mid-20th century—the destruction of states—is loose again
The Bibliopod: Timothy Snyder’s Holocaust book, and the marriage plot
Listen to the latest episode of The Bibliopod
The true story of one of Berlin’s vanished Jews
Book review: The long-buried memoir of a Jew who ‘passed’ during WWII
My grandfather would have shot me: Book review
Author Jennifer Teege’s message—that dark secrets shed their toxic power when we share them—is an important one
Lives lived, unseen: Jewish ghetto life in Nazi-occupied Poland
Henryk Ross’s unexpected, often shocking, images of Jewish ghetto life get their first comprehensive show
Rounding up the Nazi minions
Prosecutors are racing to put on trial anyone who worked at a death camp, before they die