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Evading American and Israeli authorities, did Josef Mengele ever face justice?

By Julia M. Klein, The Forward • Published August 8, 2022

A new novel considers the postwar history of the notorious Nazi physician.

Israeli film on WWII Nazis hidden in US is Oscar contender

Naama Barak, Israel21c • Published December 23, 2021

‘Camp Confidential’ tells the story of Jewish refugees ordered to keep Nazi scientists happy as they were recruited for the Cold War space race.

Did an Speer documentary falsify key material?

Published December 7, 2021

(JTA) — A screenwriter who worked with Albert Speer to try to turn the infamous Nazi architect’s life into a movie is charging that an award-winning Israeli documentary about Speer makes significant ethical lapses in its use of archival material. Andrew...

34,000 Jews were murdered at Babi Yar in 48 hours. This is who did it

Noga Tarnopolsky, Forward • Published October 7, 2021

Babi Yar may be the world’s deepest whodunit: Who killed some 34,000 Jews in just 48 hours on September 29 and 30, 1941, in this unexceptional park 15 minutes from downtown Kyiv? And who proceeded to murder a total of 100,000 people in this leafy...

“X Troop: The Secret Jewish Commandos of World War II” tells the real story of the Inglorious Basterds

Published October 3, 2021

The story of the men of X Troop, the real "Inglorious Basterds," is being told in a new book, and the St. Louis Kaplan Feldman Holocaust Museum has created a special virtual event, with the book's author on October 14. After years of extensive research,...

Holocaust Museum presents ‘Hitler’s Furies: German Women in the Nazi Killing Fields’

Published March 1, 2017

Wendy Lower will discuss “Hitler’s Furies: German Women in the Nazi Killing Fields” at 7 p.m. Thursday, March 16 at the Holocaust Museum and Learning Center, 12 Millstone Campus Drive. Drawing from wartime documents, postwar trials, private letters,...

Tina Strobos, who saved Dutch Jews during the Shoah, dies

JTA • Published March 5, 2012

Tina Strobos, a medical student in Amsterdam during World War II who helped save more than 100 Jews from the Nazis, has died. Strobos, who had joined the Dutch resistance and later was recognized as a Righteous Among the Nations, died Feb. 27 at the...

NJT to stage drama inspired by true story of concentration camp

Published January 11, 2012

Next up at the New Jewish Theatre starting in late January will be "Way to Heaven," which tells of an elaborate hoax by the Nazis to beautify the ghetto/concentration camp of Theresienstadt before the International Red Cross came to inspect it in June...

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