Aug. 4, 1944: the Nazi Gestapo captures 15-year-old Anne Frank, after 2 years of hiding with her family in an Amsterdam warehouse. In the small space she wrote her diary, arguably the most famous account of the Holocaust. Frank died in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp two months before it was liberated. Read more about Nazis & The Holocaust on PBS.
At the end of World War II, undercover agents from the US and the Soviet Union engaged in a desperate race against one another to capture Hitler’s elite scientists and cutting edge technology. In an effort to gain a major advantage in the looming Cold War, they sought rockets, planes, nuclear bombs and the masterminds behind them. Now you can join the chase by watching the full episode of Secrets of the Dead: The Hunt for Nazi Scientists.
The one-man play “Primo” recounts the Holocaust experiences of Primo Levi, an Italian chemist who was arrested and transported to Auschwitz in the final year of World War II. He was one of only 22 Italian Jews who left the camp alive. Written by/starring South African-born actor Sir Antony Sher, the play is an adaptation of Levi’s memoir Survival in Auschwitz. See an excerpt.
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.
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.
