A personal depiction of life in Poland, The Pessmist's Son by Alexander Kimel and Martin Kimel is set against the Nazi and Soviet takeovers of Europe and their cataclysmic aftermaths. It is the compelling...

We're releasing this video interview with Richard Lowy, author of "Kalman & Leopold – Surviving Mengele's Auschwitz" and son of Leopold Lowy, on Yom HaShoah – Holocaust Remembrance Day – for a reason. While the...

History lives in silence, so much so that a Mengele Auschwitz firsthand account is rare, and precious. For decades, Holocaust survivors like Richard Lowy's father kept their experiences locked away, carrying unimaginable trauma without burdening...

My Name is Alice is a first-person Alice Muller memoir, an indomitable courageous spirit, told by her as she views things in the voice of her age at the time of the Holocaust in...

After the Roundup is the true memoir of eleven-year-old French Holocaust Survivor Joseph Weismann, who was rounded up in Paris by the French police along with 13,000 other Jews (4,000 of whom were children)...

My name is Rena Quint, a Holocaust survivor. I was born December 18, 1935 in Piotrkow, Poland, and my name was Freida Lichtenstein. My parents, Sara and Yitzchak, had lived in Piotrkow for a long...

"The Nuremberg Code rejects the ideology of Eugenics and unequivocally asserts the primacy and dignity of the individual human being – as opposed to “the greater good of society.” Read the Nuremberg Code Download the...

Return to How Dark the Heavens Read Chapter 1: Daugavpils Ghetto and the Flight from Lithuania Read Chapter 2: Daugavpils Ghetto & Prison Massacre 💡 Note: To learn more about the Roma, like the one Sidney Iwens...