On 27 January, the world commemorates an important and tragic anniversary of liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau. Officially ...

A remarkable scene in Ady Walter’s film Shttl takes place in a Jewish Ukrainian village outside of Kiev on June 21, 1941, one day before the Nazi invasion, known as Operation Barbarossa. The Rebbe, ...

As Ms. Ziegelman now relates in “Once There Was a Town: The Memory Books of a Lost Jewish World,” she would learn the answers to her questions after discovering the Luboml yizkor book among her ...

Judd Apatow and Michael Bonfiglio's two-part HBO documentary examines the long career of Mel Brooks, whose work has helped ...

Rye bread, sour milk, and maybe some herring — for a poor Jew, these were the makings of a meal. The Jews I have in mind were ...

Through historical research and careful sound design, the Lost Shtetl Museum uses immersive audio to reconstruct the daily rhythms, and ultimate demise, of shtetl life.

Director Yoav Potash joins The Lead to discuss ‘Among Neighbors’ ...

Unlike many Jewish communities across the Soviet Union, the Jews of the Caucasus managed to preserve their identity. Shabbat ...

Ilana Kantorowicz Shalem was born in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in March 1945, and is one of the youngest Holocaust ...

Chernetsky says he continued fighting so that no one would say that Jews didn't fight.

In the Soviet Union, the truth about the Holocaust was deliberately erased and dissolved into the impersonal tragedy of the ...