‘Once There Was a Town’ Review: From the Pages of Memory Books

During the Jewish diaspora, special volumes were created to preserve the recollection of towns and villages that had been ...
KLCC

Greetings from Acre, Israel, where an old fortress recalls the time of the Crusades

Far-Flung Postcards is a weekly series in which NPR's international team shares moments from their lives and work around the ...

The Dark History of France’s Embassy in Iraq Goes on Trial in Paris

A Jewish family that fled Iraq generations ago rented its home to France for use as an embassy, but Paris long ago stopped ...

For some Jewish women, ‘passing’ as Christian during the Holocaust could mean survival – but left scars all the same

Some women adopted non-Jewish identities to support the resistance. For most, though, it was simply a strategy for survival – ...
Jewish Exponent

In Philadelphia, a Lesser-Known Holocaust Story Is Being Told

Lutz served as Swiss vice-consul in Budapest from 1942 to 1945, and helped save over 60,000 people from the Nazis in part by ...
Archaeology

Secrets of the Catacombs

A catacomb filled with niches for burying the dead was discovered in 1919 beneath Villa Torlonia, a lavish estate on the outskirts of Rome. Unlike other catacombs in the city, this one was used by ...