The Holocaust famously teaches us that what makes mass atrocities possible isn’t only the agency of the powerful — it’s the silence of everyone else.

That creates risks: the Holocaust didn’t begin with mass murder. The dehumanization of Jews progressed gradually from public exclusion to eventual internment to finally extermination. Millions of regular Germans—and Europeans more broadly—facilitated or silently accepted these actions.

I feature my mother’s testimony in my teaching because it gives my students a direct link, through me, as my mother’s son, to the genocide that was the Holocaust, writes Menachem Z. Rosensaft.

These things don't happen in Europe.' "So nobody believed them, and they stopped talking." Jeanette says it was only through a recording made by a school in the 1970s, showing Mascha describing her experiences to a group of children,

Why did humans show so much hatred and indifference toward fellow humans during the Holocaust? Psychology provides some answers that have implications for today.

The house, until this year, had always been in private hands. A U.S.-based group, the "Counter Extremism Project," has purchased it. Now, in conjunction with the Auschwitz Museum and UNESCO, they have created "The Auschwitz Center on Hate, Extremism and Radicalisation." The home is now open to the public for the first time.

Robbie Friedman noted the importance of remembering the mass tragedy, stating 76% of Americans believe that the Holocaust could happen again.

A survivor of the Holocaust gave local students an image of life as a young child from a Jewish family in Nazi-occupied Europe.

While commemorating Holocaust Memorial Day on Jan. 27, the Prince of Wales spoke to Holocaust survivors and remarked there was “a lot of history at this table”

King Charles and the Prince and Princess of Wales attended various events to observe International Holocaust Remembrance Day.

Marks had been just two years old when her mother sent her to live with a Catholic family to hide her from Nazis.