Matt Lebovic
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Holocaust-era Dutch 'diary keepers' depict horrors outside of Anne Frank's hideaway
For her sprawling book, journalist Nina Siegal read through hundreds of wartime diaries to portray difficult day-to-day lives of Dutch during Nazi Germany's five-year occupation → Read More
How a 'watchmaker’s daughter’ hid hundreds of Jews beneath the Nazi occupiers' noses
A new book explores how, by concealing them behind a false wall, Corrie ten Boom helped rescue hundreds of Jews and Dutch resisters from German clutches during World War II → Read More
'Ultra' podcast depicts little-known Nazi-funded plot to topple US government
Rachel Maddow's eerily timed series depicts how ultra-right nationalists prepared to bomb Jewish sites while 'bought' members of Congress disseminated Nazi talking points → Read More
Dutch Holocaust survivor, memorial founder Jacques Grishaver to address UN
Founder of acclaimed 'Namenmonument' in Amsterdam will deliver remarks for International Holocaust Remembrance Day in New York on January 27 → Read More
Nazi-appointed Jewish Councils largely exonerated in transnational comparative study
In her new book, Dutch historian Laurien Vastenhout disproves long-held, often damaging assumptions about Holocaust-era 'Judenräte' in France, Belgium and the Netherlands → Read More
21 never-published photos of Warsaw Ghetto Revolt's aftermath found in Poland attic
Uncovered in dusty boxes, pictures were taken clandestinely by a Polish firefighter in 1943 as he protected Aryan Warsaw from flames engulfing the ghetto → Read More
Lack of punishment for Holocaust perpetrators examined in British-made documentary
Veteran film producer David Wilkinson explores how so many Nazi war criminals and collaborators managed to escape post-war justice, including hundreds who fled to Britain → Read More
Street mural project honors unknown ‘Righteous Among the Nations’ in their homelands
With first installations completed in Greece and Portugal, an international initiative celebrates Holocaust rescuers and educates on antisemitism → Read More
Myths about Auschwitz Jewish ‘Sonderkommando,’ failed rebellion busted in new study
Book from Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum is Polish historian Igor Bartosik's ‘promise kept’ to survivor Henryk Mandelbaum who was forced to work in gas chambers and crematoria → Read More
TikTok influencer Montana Tucker makes Holocaust docu-series for Gen Z
After losing thousands of followers for posting about her family’s Holocaust story, social media star Montana Tucker pushes back against haters with ‘How to: Never Forget’ series → Read More
Israeli initiative asks synagogues to honor Kristallnacht by keeping their lights on
'Light from the Synagogue' organizers expect hundreds of synagogues and churches outside Israel to commemorate 'Night of Broken Glass' this year → Read More
Post-Holocaust Jewish ‘honor courts’ channeled some survivors’ desire for revenge
Oct. 26 event describes how after WWII, Jewish communities put hundreds of survivors on trial for alleged 'moral transgressions' during the genocide to stave off vigilante justice → Read More
Gap in children’s Holocaust literature filled by memoir of former 'Mengele twin'
Before her death, survivor Eva Mozes Kor partnered with author Danica Davidson on book, ‘I Will Protect You,' aiming to contextualize antisemitism - and forgiveness - for kids → Read More
In Kaunas, a British artist shines light on Holocaust massacre forgotten by locals
Near the site of one of the genocide's most heavily photographed atrocities, lighting designer Jenny Kagan brings the city's wartime past 'Out of Darkness' → Read More
PBS Holocaust documentary perpetuates well-worn myths to glorify FDR, says historian
Streaming this week, historian Rafael Medoff says 'The U.S. and the Holocaust' misrepresents President Roosevelt’s actions leading up to and during the genocide → Read More
In novel ‘Cyclorama,’ production of ‘Diary of Anne Frank’ conceals a cycle of abuse
In Forward journalist Adam Langer's new book, a slippery high school drama teacher plays elaborate cat-and-mouse games with his unsuspecting young actors → Read More
As the Holocaust raged, US newspapers buried reports on Hitler's Final Solution
In a new book, scholar Rafael Medoff shows how outlets downplayed news of the genocide until late 1943, as FDR's government and even Jewish leaders felt little pressure to act → Read More
Nazi past of top German business families is ‘hiding in plain sight,’ says author
In 'Nazi Billionaires,' journalist David de Jong investigates six uber-wealthy German families that colluded with National Socialism and 'went free with their fortunes intact' → Read More
Double mitzva? Birthright’s gay participants embrace Jewish, queer identities
Once jokingly dubbed 'Jewish baby-makers,' Birthright Israel trips have evolved to 'respect diversity' among young Jews, say staff and participants → Read More
Pope Pius XII was far from ‘neutral’ on Holocaust, says Pulitzer-winning historian
Aghast at continued apologia for Pope Pius XII, historian David Kertzer reveals archival finds about the Vatican’s ‘indifference’ during Jewish genocide → Read More