Holocaust Research

Holocaust educators in Britain have backed calls for international help to fund essential repairs at the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp, amid suggestions that such support could be the only way of ensuring the site remains a permanent memorial.  

The Northern Region of the Alabama Holocaust Commission and the Huntsville Multicultural Center are sponsoring a workshop for educators on how to teach about the holocaust.  

History will be remembered as photographer Cole Thompson's exhibit "The Ghosts of Auschwitz and Birkenau" is showcased at the Cache Gallery through the end of August.  

Neal Adams, Joe Kubert and Stan Lee have joined forces with a Holocaust expert to craft a comic that document the struggle of an Auschwitz survivor who painted watercolors to spare her mother's life in the Nazi camp. The artist, Dina Gottliebova Babbitt, 85, created a Disney mural in the...  

A local college student is helping the staff at the Hatikvah Holocaust Education Center move ahead with plans to turn it into a museum.  

Dina Gottliebova Babbitt was an inmate in Auschwitz who painted portraits at the command of Josef Mengele. The portraits still exist, and she wants them back: As all-star comic-book team-ups go, this one beats the first meeting of Superman...  

The five-digit Hollerith number assigned to inmates at the Auschwitz death camp was part of a punch card system by IBM to track the Nazis' prisoners.  

HOLOCAUST SURVIVOR Hedy Epstein is set to sail this weekend into the troubled waters off Gaza in a bid by peace activists to break Israel's siege of the ...  

Irene Greenwald was only 14 when she spent a harrowing month at Munkacs ghetto in Hungary during the Holocaust caring for children, before she was shipped to Auschwitz. Now, 64 years later, Greenwald, 78, has applied for compensation.  

Arguably the best summary of Nazi propaganda available on the Internet! My hat off to the holocaust education and archive research team!  

A University of Florida historian who has done groundbreaking research on homophobia during the Third Reich this week is helping Illinois middle and secondary school teachers incorporate Holocaust education ...  

Ela Weissberger shows the audience the star that she had to wear as a child during World War II and at Terezin, the concentration camp in the Czech Republic where she was sent in 1942.  

Sidney Finkel knew he arrived at 13 years old at Buchenwald, one of the largest concentration camps in Nazi Germany. He knew he had survived the Holocaust as a Polish Jew. But until Finkel obtained his prisoner record from Kenneth Waltzer, an MSU professor of Jewish studies, he didn’t know he had...  

Alan Dershowitz, the Felix Frankfurter Professor of Law at Harvard University, has been challenged to provide proof that the popular Zionist narrative about Auschwitz is something other than an expedient fantasy.  

Interesting to learn that Sigmund Freud lost family in the deathcamps.