The Caldecott winner sketched his first drawings as a young Polish Jew fleeing the Nazis and grew up to become an acclaimed children’s author and illustrator.

Several films have tackled the topic of Holocaust memory in recent years, including 2025 Oscar nominees The Brutalist and A Real Pain.

Rose Girone, the oldest known Holocaust survivor who endured both German and Japanese oppression but lived for eight decades beyond the end of World War II, has died at age 113.

Leibl Rosenberg, an official representative of the Jewish community in Nuremberg, Germany, has dedicated his life to finding descendants of the rightful owners of 9,000 books looted from victims of the Nazi regime and discovered in Julius Streicher’s library at the end of the war.

Holocaust survivors shared their stories Tuesday at the John Carroll School to preserve history. Each year, the school hosts a Holocaust Remembrance Day as an opportunity for the school community to honor Holocaust victims,

She fled Nazi Germany in 1939 with her husband and baby only to be forced into a Jewish ghetto in Shanghai. Still, she would often say, “Aren’t we lucky?”