The 100- year-old vividly recalls the hunger, death camps and cruelty of the guards. Thus, he tirelessly works to ensure that ...

King Charles III hosted the reception to mark Holocaust Memorial Day with survivors honoured in a series of specially ...

An exhibit of unearthed photographs is offering a heartbreaking glimpse into an unforgivable part of our past. With Chip Reid, we uncover it again: Krysia Rosenstein speaks of a childhood of ...

Henryk Ross, “Lodz Ghetto residents” (Spring 1940–December 1941), 100 modern Chromira prints from original 35 mm negatives Installation view (photograph by the author) BOSTON — What does it look like ...

Of the 250,000 Jews who resided in Lodz before the war, and the tens of thousands who were sent here from all parts of occupied Europe, only 800 survive, the correspondent of the Jewish Telegraphic ...

Henrik Ross’s camera helped him survive the Holocaust. As an “official” photographer of the Lodz ghetto, he took photos for Jewish identification cards, and documented scenes the Nazis would use to ...

During the Holocaust, Jews found innovative ways to maintain religious observance. From whispering Sabbath prayers at Auschwitz to carving potato menorahs at Bergen-Belsen, stories of risk and ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the Monitor ...

LODZ, Poland — Aging Holocaust survivors gathered today to commemorate the 65th anniversary of the last deportations from the Lodz ghetto to Nazi death camps, while Poland’s president recalled their ...

At the start of World War II, the Jewish ghetto of Lodz, Poland, had a population of 160,000. By the end of the war, it was 877. One of the few survivors was Henryk Ross, a former photojournalist who ...

The most iconic images of the Holocaust are seared into our collective unconscious - Jews being hunted, and dispatched like animals. But these rarer photos, too, represent the Holocaust—and the short ...

The images are joyful and terrifying, playful and bleak, hopeful and tragic. They were taken in the Lodz Ghetto during the Holocaust by a photographer who repeatedly risked his life to document what ...