Between 1929 and 1953, over 18 million people passed through the Soviet Gulags. They were sentenced for "crimes" as small as ...

MARLOWE: It's the first line of a very famous poem in Ukraine, which was written by a dissident poet called Vasyl Stus, and he died in a Soviet labor camp in 1985. But for me, it really embodies ...

The Wannsee Conference was held on January 20, 1942, near Berlin, Germany. Fifteen high-level German officials from various ...

NPR speaks with journalist Lara Marlowe about her book documenting the life of 29-year-old Yulia Mykytenko, a female lieutenant leading a unit on the front lines of the war against Russia in Ukraine.

In America's recent past, there have been other historic raids on immigrant communities to counter political and social ...

This book, written in simple language for children between the ages of 5 and 9, tells of Ágnes being banned from the national ...

This Shabbos we honor Yud Shevat, the yahrzeit of the Frierdiker Rebbe and the ascension to Chabad leadership of the Rebbe.

Remembering Witold Pilecki, the Hero of Auschwitz Historian Marco Patricelli recalls “the volunteer” in the concentration ...

Nearly 70 people died in the fatal crash between an American Airlines regional jet and a Black Hawk Army helicopter Jan. 29.

As Soviet forces pushed back Nazi troops in Europe in 1944 and 1945, they liberated a number of death camps including Majdanek, Auschwitz, Stutthof, Sachsenhausen and Ravensbrück.

Russian President Vladimir Putin said that ignoring the Soviet Union’s role in liberating Nazi German death camps such as Auschwitz and not inviting surviving family members of Soviet troops to ...