When the German war machine stormed into Poland, 19-year-old Zula Schibuk was sent from her home to Kaiserwald, a concentration camp in Latvia. This is her story.
Renowned children’s author and illustrator Maurice Sendak collaborated with playwright Tony Kushner to adapt Brundibar, a children’s opera written in 1938 by Czech composer Hans Krása, into a book and …
Historian Gurewitsch recounts harrowing and inspiring stories of resistance and rebellion in the camps, taken from her compendium of oral histories, Mothers, Sisters, Resistors. Her talk is as part …
Captured by German forces during the Battle of the Bulge, a forgotten group of American G.I.s was sent to Berga am Elster, a satellite concentration camp of the notorious Nazi death camp Buchenwald. Discover their stories.
In 1974, Robert Sam Anson asked Holocaust survivor and author Elie Wiesel a simple question: “Do you think the Jews can ever feel safe wherever they are in the world?” Watch Wiesel’s answer.
American Masters: Marvin Gaye premieres Wednesday, May 7 at 8 p.m.; excerpts from the show are online, including part of a short but sweet American Bandstand appearance from 1964. Gaye sings “Pride and Joy”, his first top 10 single. Watch it here.
The death factory at Auschwitz was a closely guarded secret of the Third Reich — until two men, Rudolph Vrba and Alfred Wetzler, escaped to tell the world.
“Every age,” writes Shakespeare scholar and cultural critic Marjorie Garber, “creates its own Shakespeare.”
Ever since the ‘breast cancer’ gene BRCA was identified, women who have the gene have struggled with decisions of how that affects their bodies and futures. The two profiled below …
The award for Best TV Documentary from the Overseas Press Club for the program “Child Brides: Stolen Lives” was given to NOW this week. In the show, originally broadcast 10/12/2007, Maria Hinojosa traveled to Niger, India, and Guatemala for a revealing exploration of forced child marriage in developing countries. WATCH FULL EPISODE.
