Holocaust

A morbid question looms at the center of “The Soap Myth,” Jeff Cohen’s 2012 play about a Holocaust survivor, Holocaust denialism and more: Did the Nazis…

Simon Wiesenthal died in 2005, at age 96. But his legacy remains as relevant as ever.Wiesenthal, a Jew born in the Ukraine, survived multiple Nazi…

An estimated 2,400 lectures and 1,000 concerts were given at Terezín Concentration Camp during World War II, including Requiem, a Catholic funeral march…

In 1964, the first public memorial to the Holocaust in the United States was unveiled in a solemn ceremony in Philadelphia. The bronze-on-black granite…

Pittsburgh police training now includes a half-day session on the role of law enforcement in Nazi Germany.The Pittsburgh Bureau of Police launched the…

In 2014, a state task force was assembled to find out how many Pennsylvania schools teach its students about the Holocaust, genocide and human rights…

Pope Francis spent his time at the former Nazi concentration camp in near-total silence to honor the more than 1 million people who were systematically killed there.

For decades following the horrors of the Holocaust, rumors circulated about an escape tunnel in the Ponar Forest near Vilnius, Lithuania dug by a band of…

Next week marks the anniversary of a major event leading up to the Holocaust: Kristallnacht.Brandon Blache-Cohen's grandfather, Werner Josef Cohen, lived…

A common snapshot of the horrific events of the Holocaust might traditionally focus on the death camps and gas chambers in places like Treblinka and…