A century after your death, what traces of your life will remain? Perhaps someone might find discarded clothing or a few boxes’ worth of cherished effects: china, jewelry, a watch, a toy. Your ...

A view of the entrance gate at the Nazi death camp Auschwitz in Poland. (Omar Marques / Getty Images) A black-and-white photograph of a pretty young girl with a bruised lip, a striped uniform and a ...

On Monday, Ruth Franklin wrote about sharing a stage with Yann Martel. She is the author of “A Thousand Darknesses: Lies and Truth in Holocaust Fiction.” Her blog posts are being featured this week on ...

Imre Kertesz, a Hungarian writer who survived Auschwitz as a young man and has revisited it time and again in a lifetime of stories, won the Nobel Prize for Literature yesterday. Cited by the Swedish ...

Addressing the Holocaust - in literature, in films, in music, in paintings - presents writers and readers, artists and audiences with an irresolvable paradox. Any attempt to describe the suffering of ...

If people can numb themselves to current tragedies of human design, maybe insight needs to creep up on them through fiction. If so, it may be the case that something less obvious and seemingly unreal ...

A professor researches historical themes like WWII in science fiction pulps, facing challenges with digital archives, and ...

In 1988, the BBC television series “That’s Life!” aired a program on Nicholas Winton, a former stockbroker who helped to save 669 children from the Nazis in the months leading up to World War II and ...

(JTA) In “White Bird,” a long anticipated film about a Jewish girl who is rescued by her classmate in Nazi-occupied France, the Holocaust is fertile ground for teaching children how to be good. The ...