One of the youngest child survivors of the Holocaust, Alex Rosin feels an urgency to tell people his story, especially considering the increasing antisemitism he senses following the Oct. 7 Hamas attack on southern Israeli communities and the subsequent war in Gaza.
“Irene’s Vow” is a movie based on the real-life experiences of Catholic nurse Irene Gut Opdyke. Famed for her rescue of Jews, she received a special blessing from St. John Paul II who also invited her to a personal audience in 1995.
The authors of a new book tell the story of the newly beatified Ulma family Polish Catholics killed by the Nazis for hiding eight Jews in their farmhouse in 1944.
When Józef and Wiktoria Ulma are beatified with their children Sept. 10, eight decades after they were shot by Nazis for sheltering Jews in their farmhouse near the village of Markowa in southeastern Poland, it will be a graphic reminder of the heroism shown by many Catholic Poles during the Holocaust.
Author, Elie Wiesel, gives a diary of a year and the agonizing glimpse into the appalling horror of the Holocaust.
In a wide-ranging interview, historian Teresa Wontor-Cichy spoke about the role religion — especially prayer —played at the camp and warned horrors similar to the Holocaust could recur if people close their eyes to injustice.
In the spotlight: bishop’s ordination, police funeral, Jerusalem snowstorm, Ukraine border tensions
The violence of the Holocaust and the atrocities committed against the Jewish people are tantamount to blasphemy, Pope Francis said.
