Alex Rosin, born Elek Rebensztok, is among the youngest child survivors of the Holocaust. As fewer survivors are able to give their testimony, he feels an urgency to tell people his story, especially considering the increasing antisemitism he senses following the Oct.
An annual commemoration of Nazi Germany's slaughter of millions of Jews during World War II is a call to prioritize human dignity, two Jewish-Catholic experts told OSV News.
International Holocaust Remembrance Day, observed Jan. 27, honors the estimated 6 million Jews (including 1.5
Stanislawa Leszczynska, a Polish midwife imprisoned at the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp in Nazi Germany-occupied Poland, delivered 3,000 babies of different nationalities and treated them and their mothers with heroic humanity.
As the world marks International Holocaust Remembrance Day Jan. 27, OSV News recalls
Pope Francis highlighted the importance of remembering and condemning the horror of the Holocaust, underlining that hatred and violence can never be justified.
Praying for all victims of war and their loved ones, the pope also implored everyone, "especially those with political responsibility,
On a Jewish holiday and the sabbath, Oct. 16, 1943, German forces rounded-up more than 1,250 men, women and children in Rome for deportation to extermination camps in Poland.
Those who were Jewish -- 1,022 of them -- were detained for two days
The letter found is important, the archivist said, because it not only details Nazi crimes at the Belzec extermination camp in 1942, but it refers to other reports and mentions Auschwitz, suggesting that the letter is probably part of much more correspondence
When Józef and Wiktoria Ulma are beatified with their children Sept. 10, eight decades after they were shot by Nazis for sheltering Jews in their farmhouse near the village of Markowa in southeastern Poland, it will be a graphic reminder of the
The vice president of the Warsaw-based Institute of National Remembrance, Mateusz Szpytma learned through a family photo album of the Ulmas and the tragic deaths of the family and the Jews they hid in 1944 during World War II. Szpytma's grandmother, Maria,
The notorious barbarity of the Nazi regime was on full display in the occupied Polish town of Markowa on March 24, 1944. Early that morning, German-led police surrounded the home of Józef and Wiktoria Ulma, Poles who had been denounced for sheltering
A new short film reveals the little-known story of how Catholic priests in a Nazi concentration camp placed their lives in the hands of St. Joseph. “Here they are, prisoners facing almost certain death, vulnerable, weak — just as Christ the little