As Judy and Sam return to Poland again and again, fresh obstacles emerge. In 2000 the U.S.-based Polish historian Jan Gross published “Neighbors,” a book that presents substantial evidence of ...

Grabowski’s 496-page book is now available on Yad Vashem’s website. Grabowski has written numerous books and articles focusing on the Holocaust in Poland.

Liesbeth Heenk has published 115 Holocaust memoirs and nonfiction narratives in English, and she continues to search for stories that recount the experiences people lived through during that low point ...

Like Janicka, Grabowski is part of what has been called the "new Polish school of Holocaust history" – born after the publication, in 2000, of an influential book: Neighbors, by Jan T. Gross.

Jews in the Garden: A Holocaust Survivor, the Fate of His Family, and the Secret History of Poland in World War II; By Judy Rakwosky; Sourcebooks; 384 pp., $17.99 A veteran reporter who spent ...

Czeslawa Kwoka, a Catholic Polish girl, was murdered at Auschwitz on March 12, 1943. She was 14 years old. Until her ...

Ari Richter’s, ‘Never Again Will I Visit Auschwitz,’ explores the intersection of his family’s Holocaust history and Jewish identity.

Three years later, the government implemented a law steeped in grievance over how Poland’s World War II history is described. The 2018 memory law forbids any expression describing complicity by ...

The Yiddish writer Chava Rosenfarb was born 100 years ago, into a world that no longer exists. In 1923, Lodz was home to the second-largest Jewish community in Poland, about 250,000 Jews, more ...

Holocaust survivors and other participants gather on April 18, 2023, for the annual March of The Living to honor the victims of the Holocaust at the Auschwitz concentration camp in Oswiecim, Poland.

A groundbreaking book by the U.S. writer and daughter of survivors, Helen Epstein, was published at that time, titled Children of the Holocaust. It was one of the first books to explore ...

Poland is the place where the Holocaust was perpetrated; it’s here, on pre-war Polish territory, that close to five million out of six million Jews were put to death. Out of three million Polish ...