During road renovations near the Institute of Archaeology at the University of Wroclaw, workers made a remarkable discovery: ...

I co-direct an international research project to collect every available image documenting Nazi mass deportations of Jews, Roma and Sinti, as well as euthanasia victims, in Nazi Germany between ...

Breslau’s destruction, it should be said, was by no means inevitable. It hinged entirely on Hitler’s decision, in late 1944, to designate the city as “Festung Breslau,” Germany’s final ...

In early November 1938, tumultuous sounds of “screaming, crashing, breaking of glass, shouting” in what was then Breslau, Germany, kept Esther Ascher Adler’s family awake through the night.

They wanted Breslau held to raise the German spirit. Out of Breslau came the propaganda stories: a 4,000,000 Reichsmark collection for the Nazi Winter Help fund, as if millions mattered now; a ...

In 1938, she married Julius Mannheim in an arranged marriage, and they moved to Breslau, Germany, which is now Wroclaw, Poland, just as the Nazis launched Kristallnacht or the Night of Broken ...

Bonhoeffer was born in 1906 in Breslau, Germany (present-day Wroclaw, Poland), one of eight children in a prominent, well-educated family. He early showed a strong piety, studied theology and by ...

Bonhoeffer was born in 1906 in Breslau, Germany (present-day Wroclaw, Poland), one of eight children in a prominent, well-educated family. He early showed a strong piety, studied theology and by ...

Bonhoeffer was born in 1906 in Breslau, Germany (present-day Wroclaw, Poland), one of eight children in a prominent, well-educated family. He early showed a strong piety, studied theology and by ...

Bonhoeffer was born in 1906 in Breslau, Germany (present-day Wroclaw, Poland), one of eight children in a prominent, well-educated family. He early showed a strong piety, studied theology and by ...

Cohn, a well-known German-Jewish medieval historian and high school teacher in Breslau, kept a detailed diary about the persecution of the town’s Jews from 1933 to 1941. It was unearthed and ...