The young women applied makeup to make their skin appear bruised and emaciated, their cheekbones hollowed and their eyes swollen. The little girl wore a brown satchel over a blue dress coat with an identification tag hanging off the collar. …

By Sara J. Bloomfield An important new study on Holocaust denial and social media was recently released by the Institute for Strategic Dialogue (ISD) based in London. …

A cell phone photo. A land ownership document. A mandolin. A child’s shirt. Rohingya who survived mass atrocities committed against their Muslim minority community by their own government grabbed whatever they could carry when they fled their homes in 2017. The Burmese military and security forces confiscated much of their…

What can be learned from the reluctance of many Germans to grapple with their complicity in the Holocaust? Germany after Adolf Hitler can be considered an ideal case study for how countries attempt to reckon with their darkest moments. Many laws and policies put in place after the war, as…

Rohingya mothers and fathers will try everything to protect their children from harm, which has now included a genocide and a global pandemic Ten-year-old Jahingir loved learning. After he finished his homework, his parents would often catch him reading even as other neighborhood children played outside. …

By Sara J. Bloomfield As our country wages war against a dangerous aspect of Mother Nature, it is worth recalling the war in Europe our nation was bringing to a successful conclusion 75 years ago this spring against the deadly potential of human nature. The liberation of Europe and Asia…

A crowd of protestors swarmed outside the Berlin Jewish community building on the Rosenstrasse. Inside, behind a police line, about 2,000 Jewish men and boys awaited processing by the Gestapo. Although it was 1943, well into the Nazi “Final Solution” to murder the Jews of Europe, these Jews had survived…

By Sara J. Bloomfield In difficult times, history can provide perspective as we struggle to understand the present and think about the future. The Holocaust, a very different event at a very different time, reminds us just how catastrophic life can be and what truly matters. …

January 27, 2020, marks the 75th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz concentration camp and killing center by units of the Soviet Red Army. Throughout the world, political dignitaries, museums, and memorials will commemorate this solemn occasion by honoring the six million murdered Jews as well as other victims…