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Charlotte Arpadi Baum There are few first-person accounts of the Riga Ghetto. There is ‘good’ reason for this: few survived. The Nazis and their just as brutal Latvian allies saw to that. Most of the Jews were rounded up, taken.....

Like nearly all Holocaust survivors, Roman Kent has to live with impossible memories.  There are visions of loss and destruction, of unimaginable horrors.  Born in pre-war Poland, as Roman Kniker, his mostly idyllic childhood in Lodz was shattered in September.....

By mid-1944, the Jews of Hungary were being deported at a frightening rate, most to Auschwitz. Against this backdrop, Rudolf Kasztner negotiated directly with the Nazi Adolf Eichmann to release Jews in exchange for payment. The story of the rescue.....

Usher Celinski died in 1984. Sometime later, his family donated his hand-written, Yiddish manuscript to the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum. When the archives at the museum asked Herman Taube, renowned Yiddish writer and poet, to translate it, he agreed. The.....

Not a traditional Holocaust memoir, Alex Reifer’s story will prove to be important for a better understanding of the era. Reifer was victimized by the Holocaust, losing his parents, grandparents and all four of his brothers. As a Russian intelligence.....