Holocaust

Jewish historian Ari Joskowicz tells the story of Hitler’s attempt to wipe out the Roma people.

Eva Hoffman, a fellow exile from Poland, writes about the Nobel-winning author like no one else could.

The Zone of Interest interrogates the desire to bear witness that animates the Holocaust movie as a genre.

Leopoldstadt grapples with the 86-year-old playwright’s Jewish roots and his fear about the direction of our society.

For Sachs, flight is multivalent: her flight from the Nazis, any refugee’s flight from oppression, God’s flight from God.

The painter’s Exodus calls to mind the Passover, the Shoah, Ukraine, and the southern border.

Reading Art Spiegelman’s Holocaust graphic novel with Christian eyes

In Yehiel Poupko’s poems, Jewish belief in God groans under the burden of divine silence.

They put us in touch with essential things that we know to be dear or wrong.

Susan Neiman considers how Americans might learn from Germany.

The abundance of giving

Alice Hoffman’s Holocaust novel collapses the boundaries between reality and fantasy.

I was outraged. I wanted to burn it all down. I wanted to pray.

Bearing witness, challenging God, voicing lament

In the face of evil, we tend to keep our heads down. Not Witold Pilecki.

Two tributes that offer behind-the-scenes glimpses of the beloved teacher

The Holocaust survivor’s response to suffering was to create joyful children’s books.

You cannot bear witness with a single word like genocide. Yet Night describes exactly what happened to me.

In Aharon Appelfeld's novel, a teenage Holocaust survivor sleeps, remembers, and learns to speak anew.