3 days ago · On the 80th anniversary of the camp’s liberation, a dwindling band of survivors was asked to keep the flame of memory burning in these dark times.

4 days ago · More than a million people, most of them Jews, were killed in the camp during World War II. Among 34,000 people in the town of Oświęcim is just one Jew – a young Israeli named Hila Weisz-Gut.

3 days ago · Elderly Holocaust survivors and dozens of world leaders gathered at Auschwitz-Birkenau in Poland on Monday to mark 80 years since the liberation of the concentration camp where Nazi Germany ...

The National WWII Museum, Antisemitism: The Fight in WWII America is a five-part podcast series exploring the battle against antisemitism in prewar America and during World War II, and examining the legacy of these efforts, which continue today. Hosted by historian Stephanie Hinnershitz, PhD.

The coming of the Scientific and Industrial Revolutions in 19th-century Europe bred a new manifestation of antisemitism, based as much upon race as upon religion, which culminated in the Holocaust that occurred during World War II.

This episode examines the legacy of the fight against antisemitism in the United States during World War II. Oral histories of liberators provide firsthand accounts of cruelty and inhumanity that emphasize the horrific realities of unchecked antisemitism.

Aug 2, 2016 · Why do you think old myths, stereotypes, and hatred of Jews persisted after World War II, even after the Nazis were defeated and their ideas discredited? In what ways might post-war life in Europe have activated antisemitism?

In early November of 1938, Nazi Party leaders and members of the Hitler Youth and the SS, or Storm Troopers, unleashed a wave of violent pogroms across Germany, Austria, and the Sudetenland. They subjected Jews to brutal beatings and destroyed Jewish property, as well as sacred religious artifacts.

What is Antisemitism?

Antisemitism: World War II Documents that chronicle the U.S. foreign policy establishment’s response to the systematic persecution of persons of Jewish descent during World War II.