The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising in April 1943 was a significant revolt against the Germans during World War II. The anniversary of this resistance effort has become the internationally recognized date for Holocaust Remembrance Day. Its date is based on the Hebrew calendar, and the United States extends the observance to a week. (Source: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum)
We invite you to honor the survivors and victims of the Holocaust by listening to their stories. By taking the time to remember and reflect, may we learn how to prevent such horrors in the future.
Holocaust survivors partner with songwriters to turn their life experiences into powerful music for a community concert. The resulting songs, filled with joy and healing, celebrate the extraordinary lives of this resilient generation.
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In the last store in a defunct shopping mall, 91-year-old Sonia Warshawski—great-grandmother, businesswoman and Holocaust survivor—runs the tailor shop she’s owned for more than 30 years. But when she’s served an eviction notice, the specter of retirement prompts Sonia to resist her harrowing past and share her story with others.
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In 1930, Germany was a liberal democracy. Just four years later, democracy was dead, Germany’s leader was a dictator and the government was in the hands of the Nazis. Learn how this happened so that we can prevent it from occurring again.
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The battles on the Eastern Front are viewed by many as the defining conflict of WWII.
Follow Czech Holocaust survivor and retired U.S. professor Vladimir Munk as, at age 95, he returns to Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration and extermination camp, one of the camps where he was held prisoner during World War II.
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As young children, they lived through the Holocaust. Now, some of the last remaining survivors recount their memories and the lingering trauma. FRONTLINE offers a haunting look at how disturbing childhood experiences and unimaginable loss have impacted their daily lives and relationships—from survivor’s guilt to crises of faith and second-generation trauma.
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Hear the story of nearly 20,000 Jewish refugees fleeing Nazi-occupied Europe during World War II, to the Chinese port city of Shanghai. Explore the extraordinary relationship of these Jews and their adopted city, even through the bitter years of Japanese occupation 1937–45 and the Chinese civil war that followed.
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At age 14, every child attending school in Germany is brought face to face with the nation’s past by confronting the reality of the Holocaust for the very first time. This documentary follows four children as they experience Holocaust education in the public school system in Germany.
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