A photograph dated 1942 shows Anne Frank at a desk, her face turned toward the camera. The image records a moment from the year the Frank family went into hiding after the German occupation of the Netherlands intensified. The photograph does not explain what followed. It marks only a point in time, preserved without context, …
On November 20, 1945, as a cold Bavarian morning settled over the battered city of Nuremberg, something unprecedented in the history of human civilization began. In a courtroom carved out of the ruins of a recently defeated empire, the world gathered to hold individuals—not nations, not vague entities, not faceless regimes, but actual men—accountable for …
On January 27, 1945, soldiers of the Soviet Red Army entered the gates of Auschwitz, revealing the unspeakable horrors of the Holocaust to the world. The liberation of this notorious concentration and extermination camp marked a pivotal moment in human history, bringing an end to the suffering of the few remaining survivors and exposing the …
