Holocaust

Orchestrated by anti-Semitic Nazi leader Adolf Hitler, the Holocaust saw the systematic murder of more than six million Jews. Today the Holocaust is commemorated on Holocaust Memorial Day on 27 January. The Auschwitz concentration camp is the site of the largest mass murder in the history of the world: around 1.1 million people were killed there – 1 million of them Jews

Adolf Hitler and his lover, Eva Braun, relaxing in Berchtesgaden in 1942. The Nazi leader’s private life was more ‘normal’ than some accounts have suggested (Photo by akg-images)

“We need to understand the Nazis as human beings”: Richard J Evans on the motivations of Hitler’s followers. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Jonah Hauer-King as Lali Sokolov and Anna Próchniak as Gita Furman in The Tattooist of Auschwitz

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Are we right to fictionalise the Holocaust? It’s a question The Tattooist of Auschwitz should make us ask ourselves

Artwork for the Tattooist of Auscwitz

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The real tattooists of Auschwitz: who were the men who turned people into numbers?

The man who ran Auschwitz: the real story of The Zone of Interest. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The perimeter fence of the Nazi concentration camp at Auschwitz.

Holocaust podcast episodes

A black and white photograph of Rudolf Hoss, on the first day of his trial for war crimes

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The real history behind The Zone of Interest: Did Rudolf Höss really live next door to Auschwitz?

Nicholas Winton: the 'British Schindler'. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

: SS soldiers with Jewish people before their execution at Babyn Yar. “Each of these murders took place face to face. It was an intimate and barbaric process,” writes James Bulgin. (Photo by YAD VASHEM ARCHIVES)

How the holocaust began. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A black and white photo showing a group of friends having a picnic, including Josef Mengele (third from the right).

Tracking down the Nazi 'Angel of Death': one man's hunt for Josef Mengele

Hitler and French Marshal Henri-Phillipe Petain

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Vichy France: your guide to the WW2 regime

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How forgers helped rescue Holocaust victims. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Surviving Hitler and Stalin. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

WW2 the big questions: the Holocaust. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Forgotten histories of the Holocaust. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Aerial view of the outside of Treblinka extermination camp, Germany, 1943. (Photo by Mondadori Portfolio via Getty Images)

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Laurence Rees on the perpetrators of the Holocaust: “What they told us was, at the time, they felt it was the right thing to do”

The Holocaust: a 21st-century view. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Architecture & hidden Jewish history in Eastern Europe. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Anne Frank writing at her desk, c1942

Why we should remember…the translation of Anne Frank’s diary. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Britain’s only war crimes trial. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The 1993 film ‘Schindler’s List’. (AF Archive/Alamy Stock Photo)

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7 must-see WW2 films, from Schindler’s List to Letters from Iwo Jima

A group of Tunisian Jews are rounded up and marched through the streets of Tunis carrying shovels in December 1942

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A 'teacher' in Milgram's study is instructed to administer an electric shock to a 'learner'.

Experiments in evil: the shocking efforts to understand the atrocities of the Holocaust

Migrants at a detention centre in Texas, March 2019

The complex history of concentration camps

Wolfson History Prize 2021 special. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Adolf Eichmann during his trial in 1961

Forgotten voices: the history behind Holocaust Memorial Day

Searching for freedom after the Holocaust. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Gary Oldman plays Winston Churchill in the 2018 Oscar winner 'Darkest Hour'.

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A WW2 story of survival. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

When Bergen-Belsen was liberated, huts designed to house about 30 people were found to be crammed with as many as 500. (Photo by Getty Images)

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Your guide to the Holocaust

Robert Rinder (right) in My Family, The Holocaust and Me

Growing up in the dark shadow of trauma: Robert Rinder on the legacy of Holocaust