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Holograms to retell stories from the Holocaust

Scientists at USC are leading the development of 3-D technology that helps keep the memories of survivors alive

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Ceremony marks 20 years since Oscar-nominated sham

As Hollywood gathers for its glitziest moment, it’s worth recalling the Academy’s embrace of a Holocaust documentary exposed as a lie

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Author examines Holocaust trauma in a new generation

Inspired by her relatives’ differing responses — resilience and suicide — Allison Nazarian looks at survivors’ grandchildren

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Retiree seeks the sad girl from across the street

Though they knew each other only briefly, Rozanne Dittersdorf’s young neighbor — a Holocaust survivor — had a profound impact on her

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Adding a new dimension to Holocaust testimony

New technology affords future generations the privilege of personal interactive conversations with survivors

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Holocaust refugee seeks long-lost love in Shanghai

Now 92, Gary Matzdorff returns — with his wife — to find an old flame in the city that sheltered him during WWII

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Spielberg’s Shoah Foundation turns 20

Organization that filmed the testimonies of nearly 52,000 survivors expands its mission, turning the lens on other genocides

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Spielberg to honor Obama at Shoah Foundation event

US president to be awarded title of Ambassador for Humanity by ‘Schindler’s List’ director

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Spielberg launches center for genocide research

Academic center aims to probe the conditions leading to genocides and how to intervene in time to prevent them

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A Holocaust-style video archive project comes to Japan

Survivors of the 2011 earthquake and tsunami tell their stories for future generations in IsraAid’s Voices of Tohoku project

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Obama vows to oppose anti-Semitism ‘wherever it takes root’

In Holocaust Remembrance Day message, US president remembers Jews ‘senselessly murdered’ by Nazis, praises survivors

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Springsteen plays ‘Promised Land’ at Shoah event

Megastar serenades crowd of 1,300, including Obama, with bleakly resonant 1978 tune, calls songwriters ‘the keepers of memory’

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Holocaust education prepares for era without eyewitnesses

80 groups throughout the US offer resources and training for educators to make the Shoah less history, and more humanity

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Toronto man recognizes himself in Bergen-Belsen photo

Holocaust survivor Yehuda Danzig overwhelmed emotionally as he spots image in The Times of Israel

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500,000 Holocaust survivors live in poverty, says US diplomat

Kerry adviser slams ‘unacceptable’ global situation, claims not enough has been done to alleviate financial strain

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Magazine honors Hollywood’s Holocaust survivors

Special Hollywood Reporter issue features Roman Polanski, Ruth Westheimer among others

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Spielberg’s Shoah Foundation tackles Guatemala genocide

Collection of oral histories from bloody 1960-1996 civil conflict set to be most comprehensive to date

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How an Auschwitz survivor fought to survive anti-Semitism in Skokie

In new documentary film, son explores father’s Holocaust ordeal and their community’s struggle against neo-Nazis and culture of hate

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Queen’s milliner who fled the Nazis killed in London road accident

Herta Groves, who died on April 27 at 96, left Austria aged 19; her parents and sister perished at the hands of the Nazis

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Was beloved children’s author Roald Dahl a raging bigot?

As Steven Spielberg-directed ‘The BFG’ flick hits the screens, a critical look at provocateur Dahl’s lifelong disdain for Jews and other minorities

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