SKOKIE, Ill. (CBS)--For most of us, the Holocaust is a dark period in world history. But for survivor Max Epstein, it's still a living memory. "It was murder, outright murder," Epstein said. Epstein ...

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 ...

For decades, Leon Sutton kept the photographs hidden away in an unassuming envelope, 48 documents that offer an astonishing portrait of life inside the Lodz Ghetto in Poland during the Second World ...

When the Nazis took over Lodz, Poland in 1940, they initially confiscated the camera of photojournalist Henryk Ross, who was Jewish. They returned the camera, but only so Ross could take official ...

Henryk Ross risked his life to take the surreptitious shots of the brutal conditions. BOSTON (JTA) – Henryk Ross risked his life to take surreptitious photographs of the brutal life in Poland’s Lodz ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Lilka Elbaum and the painting that played such an important role in her family's lives in the documentary "Still Life in Lodz." ...

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 ...

A Yiddish diary discovered near Crematorium III of the Auschwitz death camp has been found to contain reports on life in the Lodz ghetto under the Nazi occupation of Poland, it was reported here today ...

KRAKOW, Poland (JTA) — An activist who says he is working to “liberate Poland from American Jews’ occupation” unveiled an effigy in Lodz of a Jewish politician hung on a gallows. Sławomir Dul ...

Aged Holocaust survivors commemorated the 65th anniversary of the last deportations from the Lodz ghetto to Nazi death camps on Thursday, and Poland's president recalled their suffering and praised ...