Film
An Online Film Festival Commemorates the Liberation of the Nazi Concentration Camps
Liberation75 is streaming movies about World War II and the Holocaust, including The Great Dictator and Schindler's List, for free.
Holocaust
News
Photos by Jewish Artist Who Documented Ghetto in Nazi-occupied Poland Gifted to MFA Boston
Ross was forcibly confined to the Lodz Ghetto and tasked to take propaganda photographs, but secretly documented the brutal living conditions to leave a historical record of atrocities committed by the Nazis.
Art
How Marc Chagall's Daughter Smuggled His Artwork to the US
Letters penned by Marc Chagall reveal his immigration difficulties to New York during World War II and his concern for his daughter who followed him on a separate ship, carrying a large case of his works.
Art
A History of Holocaust Denial Comes Under Scrutiny in The Evidence Room
The Hirshhorn Museum exhibition, filled with reproductions and plaster casts of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp, works through the wounds and scars of a gruesome history.
Interview
The Untold Story of the Woman Who Helped Make a Landmark Holocaust Film
Director Catherine Hébert talks to Hyperallergic about her new documentary Ziva Postec and the mystique of film editing.
News
An Auschwitz Recreation at a Turkish Film Premiere Causes Uproar
Among the glamour of Cicero’s red carpet premiere were disturbing references to World War II concentration camps, including barking German shepherds, guards in SS uniforms, and children's shoes piled on the floor.
History
The Disturbing Force of Early Color Photos of Nazi Camps
12 Nazi Concentration Camps is a body of work by James Friedman who, in the early '80s, took the largely unprecedented step of documenting Nazi camps in color photography.
Art
Death and Perseverance in the Lodz Ghetto, Captured by One of Its Inhabitants
An official photographer in the ghetto administration, Henryk Ross defied the laws of the Nazi regime by taking clandestine photographs of Jewish residents as they confronted poverty, squalor, debasement, and death.
Art
An Online Project Shames Selfie-Takers at Berlin's Holocaust Memorial
In his chilling project "YOLOCAUST," Shahak Shapira manipulates the original selfies at the memorial to include actual photos of Nazi crimes.
News
US Museums Criticized for Mishandling Nazi Art Restitution Cases
A new report on the restitution of Holocaust-era artworks condemns a number of US museums for failing to resolve claims straightforwardly and instead resorting to legal maneuvers to have them dismissed.
Performance
A Holocaust Survivor's Story in Postmodern Dance
Taking testimony from a Holocaust survivor and turning it into a dance is an intriguing but risky proposition, especially if you're not a Jew.
News
Philanthropist and Jury Clash Over Design of Controversial Warsaw Memorial
A controversial competition to build a monument in Warsaw to Poles who helped Jews during the Holocaust just got a little more controversial after the founder of the organization behind the project denounced the winning design.