Holocaust

A top administrator with the Carroll Independent School District in Southlake, Texas, advised teachers last week that if they have a book about the Holocaust in their classroom, they should also offer students access to a book from an “opposing” perspective, according to an audio recording obtained by NBC News. Gina Peddy, the Carroll school district’s executive director of curriculum and...

The 9-year-old girls met in the schoolyard near their Berlin homes to say goodbye. Ilse Betty Grebenschikoff and Anne Maria Wahrenberg were best friends who leaned on one another during the early days of the Nazi’s anti-Jewish campaign. In 1939, both of their families were preparing to flee Germany for different destinations. Grebenschikoff and Wahrenberg embraced, cried and promised to…

Israelis stood in silence for two minutes on Thursday to remember the six million people who died in the Holocaust.

The Claims Conference, an organization that seeks restitution for victims of the Holocaust, launched a social media campaign explaining the speech and words that were said prior to the Nazi-led genocide of millions of people, including 6 million Jewish people.

April 8 is a Day of Remembrance for victims of the Holocaust. Dr. Edith Eger speaks about “The Gift,” her book that mentions grief as a force for positive change, inspired by her story surviving the Auschwitz concentration camp, and her healing process from the trauma.

You might not be familiar with the name Esther Pratt, but if you’ve ever been to the Holocaust Museum Los Angeles, you know her legacy. Pratt, along with Masha Loen, was part of the original team of Holocaust survivors that founded the museum in 1961 as a place to honor their loved ones, house precious artifacts, and educate future generations.

Hundreds of Holocaust survivors in Austria and Slovakia have received their first dose of a coronavirus vaccine 76 years after Soviet troops liberated the Auschwitz death camp

A new study showed how disconnected younger generations have become from the realities of the Holocaust. Professor of Modern Jewish History Deborah Lipstadt explains why that is so dangerous.

The rise of Holocaust deniers on social media platforms has been deeply painful to the elderly survivors of the genocide. These survivors are now taking to Facebook with the hashtag #NoDenyingIt to call on Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg to remove Holocaust deniers from the company’s platforms

The rise of Holocaust deniers on social media platforms has been deeply painful to the elderly survivors of the genocide. These survivors are now taking to Facebook with the hashtag #NoDenyingIt to call on Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg to remove Holocaust deniers from the company’s platforms.

A court in Hamburg, Germany, convicted former Nazi guard Bruno Dey of being an accessory to the murder of over 5,200 prisoners during World War II.

A virtual commemoration of Holocaust Remembrance Day will be conducted Sunday by the Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust, remembering those who perished, honoring those who survived and marking the 75th anniversary of liberation and the end of the Holocaust. The program, titled “75 Years After Liberation: Turning Memory into Action” will begin at 2 p.m. Registration can be made…

Survivors of the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp prayed and wept as they marked the 75th anniversary of the liberation of the camp by the Soviet army

Survivors of the Auschwitz death camp tell their harrowing stories as they gather at the site to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the liberation of the camp – some of them for the first time.

Europe’s Catholic bishops are marking the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz with a statement denouncing anti-Semitism and the “manipulation” of the truth for political aims.

Shortly before they were rounded up by Nazi troops in Belgium and deported to Auschwitz in 1942, the parents of three-year-old Maurice Gluck placed their only child in the care of a local Christian family. Gluck forgot his Yiddish mother tongue and that he even had parents of his own.

One of Germany’s richest families, which owns Krispy Kreme Doughnuts, Pret A Manger and other international brands, is giving millions to support Holocaust survivors as it seeks to atone for its use of forced laborers during the Nazi era and its enthusiastic support of Adolf Hitler, The Associated Press has learned.

A play focusing on the Holocaust aims to inspire discussion of hate crimes in the modern day. Vikki Vargas reports for the NBC4 News at 5:55 p.m. on Friday, Oct. 25, 2019.

Admission to the Anne Frank exhibit at the Museum of Tolerance will be free Wednesday on the 90th anniversary of her birth.Holocaust survivors will speak to museum guests at noon and 1 p.m. The exhibit opens at 10 a.m. with the last admittance at 5:30 p.m.

Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., on Monday defended recent remarks she made about the Holocaust and Israel and lashed out at President Donald Trump and GOP lawmakers for “spreading outright lies” about her, NBC News reported. During an interview on Yahoo News’s “Skullduggery” podcast released Friday, Tlaib was asked about her support for a one-state solution between Israelis and Palestinians. Tlaib...