The monument commemorates victims of the massacre carried out on July 10, 1941, when Polish residents of Jedwabne, a small town located in then German-occupied Poland, participated in the murder of ...

Bowing to international pressure, the German Olympic Committee invited German Jewish high jumper Gretel Bergmann to compete at pre-Olympic qualifying meets. Returning to Germany from England where she ...

When eight-year-old Emanuel “Manny” Mandel and his mother escaped German-occupied Budapest in summer 1944, their tense journey did not go as expected. Nazi and ...

An estimated 100,000 people were killed during the conflict in Bosnia between 1992 and 1995, including the July 1995 genocide of 8,000 Bosnian Muslims from Srebrenica. Learn more about what happened ...

A controversial move at the Games was the benching of two American Jewish runners, Marty Glickman and Sam Stoller. Both had trained for the 4x100-meter relay, but on the day before the event, they ...

After plans collapsed to hold the 1940 Winter Games at St. Moritz, Switzerland, Hitler gained an unexpected opportunity to return the Olympics to Germany. In June 1939, Garmisch-Partenkirchen was ...

The collection consists of three photograph albums and a Nazi swastika pennant. ... Nazi swastika pennant that was inserted inside one of the photo albums George Bernard Niewenhous ...

Hilde Gutfreund found a way to secretly ask her sister for food in the letters she wrote from Theresienstadt.

Albert Garih and his twin brother were born June 24, 1938, in Paris, France, to Benjamin and Claire (née Alfandari) Garih. Albert’s twin died in infancy. Natives of Constantinople (now Istanbul, ...