In the 1930s, as life for Jewish people in Germany...  ...i at Atlas Obscura. (Image credit: United States Holocaust Museum)

Franceska Mann was a talented dancer, a rising star in the entertainment scene in pre-war Poland. During the Nazi occupation, she was confined to the Warsaw ghetto, where she performed at the Melody Palace nightclub. In...

In the early hours of April 21st, 1945, Swedish Jew Norbert Masur met with Gestapo chief Heinrich Himmler as a representative of the World Jewish Congress. Just showing up was dangerous, and the diplomacy required for su...

In 1939, the St. Louis set sail from Hamburg, Germ...  ...y. In the end, 254 were killed during the war and Holocaust . My name is Werner Stein. The US turned me awa...  ...tory at Smithsonian. (Image credit: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum courtesy of Judy Katz)

There's no single right way to behave at a Holocaust memorial, but as a general rule, visitors should...  ...der and Grindr photos into actual pictures of the Holocaust . The results are ugly and unpleasant, but they sh...

(Photo: Ezra Wolfinger/Israel Antiquities Authority/AP)In the Ponar forest outside of Vilnius, Lithuania, the Nazis murdered and buried about 100,000 people. Later in the war, as the Red Army began to push the Germans ou...

(Photo: World Economic Forum)When he was 15 years...  ...954, he wrote an 800-page memoir in Yddish of his Holocaust experiences. Four years later, he published a muc...  ...ht, Wiesel taught the world about the hell of the Holocaust . For his humanitarian work, he earned the Nobel P...

(Photo: Guinness World Records)Israel Kristal, age...  ...d only 82 pounds. He was the only survivor of the Holocaust from his entire family. Even his children were ki...

Hermann Goering (left) was a devoted Nazi, an earl...  ...ribes one of his many daring escapades during the Holocaust :Albert, it emerged, had not only lobbied his brot...  ...that honors gentiles who rescued Jews during the Holocaust

[https://youtu.be/gXGfngjmwLA] (YouTube link)Francine Christophe was a little girl in France when her father became a POW and she and her mother were shipped off to the camps. In 1944, they were taken to Bergen-Belsen in...