Nazis wanted identical twin Annetta Able to get pregnant by another identical twin at Auschwitz. Dr. Josef Mengele, known as the "Angel of Death," treated her and her sister as human guinea pigs. Able ...
(JTA) — As a physical education teacher at an Orthodox boys school in New York City, René Slotkin frequently wore short-sleeved shirts — leaving the numbers tattooed into his arm visible to anyone who ...
It has been 75 years since the Doctors Trial at Nuremberg took place (1946–1947). Accusations of criminal activity were directed at 23 individuals, mostly doctors, for the brutal medical experiments ...
Educating children about the Holocaust was important to survivor Eva Mozes Kor. Her memoir “I Will Protect You: A True Story of Twins Who Survived Auschwitz,” published on April 5 and written with her ...
Eighty years after the liberation of Auschwitz, Nazi Germany’s biggest killing center, a new documentary screening on June 6 focuses on a 29-year-old prisoner who cared for young twins who were ...
It has been approximately seventy-five years since the Doctors Trial at Nuremburg took place in Germany (1946-1947), at the end of World War II. Accusations of criminal activity were directed at ...
A pen belonging to a Hungarian hero who risked his life to save dozens of children inside a concentration camp where the infamous Nazi Doctor Mengele ran cruel experiments has been donated to the ...
Sign up for Forwarding the News, our essential morning briefing with trusted, nonpartisan news and analysis, curated by senior writer Benyamin Cohen. (JTA) — As a ...
The documentary features survivors who sing the praises of their guardian angel Erno “Zvi” Spiegel, a Hungarian Jewish prisoner ordered to look after them. Spiegel’s daughter, Judith Richter, also ...