In February 1942, a 12-year-old girl escaped a Jewish ghetto in Nazi-occupied Belarus. A champion swimmer, she coated herself in goose fat and swam under ice to evade guards before fleeing into a ...

Kristallnacht evokes images of shattered storefronts and synagogues set ablaze. By way of contrast, a collection of once-unpublished testimony conveys the personal impact of the Nazi pogrom on Jews ...

Born in 1929, Lawrence Langer who died Jan. 29 at the age of 94, was the foremost scholar of the Holocaust in the field of literature and testimony. The Holocaust and the Literary Imagination (1975), ...

JTA — For decades, the USC Shoah Foundation has amassed testimonies of Holocaust survivors, with the goal of preserving stories before they cannot be told firsthand. Now, with survivors dwindling, the ...

“Every year at school in Israel we used to get a lecture from a Holocaust survivor,” said Tomer Peretz. “I was always getting bored listening to him like, ‘OK, OK, we got it, OK. So, they killed you ...

Eyewitnesses testimonies are extremely compelling forms of evidence. But, it's not foolproof -- just ask the 242 people mistakenly identified by eyewitnesses who served years in prison for crimes they ...

The Rochester City Council heard testimonies from local non-profit and advocacy center representatives regarding the growing challenge of homelessness in the city, and discussed potential solutions.