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This podcast features interviews with authors of new research, fresh monographs and recent books about the Holocaust and World War II.

Welcome to Memory. Evidence. Change., a podcast that engages a wide range of guests whose lives and work intersect with the fields of Holocaust and genocide studies. Episodes in this podcast take one of three different formats: “Memory” episodes feature individuals with lived experience related to genocide or mass atrocity. “Evidence” episodes feature academic experts with emerging or establish research projects. And “Change” episodes feature individuals who have worked to implement change in our world. The Cohen Institute is a nonpartisan entity that aims to advance public ...

Immaculee Ilibagiza grew up in a country she loved, surrounded by a family she cherished. But in 1994 her idyllic world was ripped apart as Rwanda descended into a bloody genocide. Immaculee' family was brutally murdered during a killing spree that lasted three months and claimed the lives of...

Welcome to Memory. Evidence. Change., a podcast that engages a wide range of guests whose lives and work intersect with the fields of Holocaust and genocide studies. Episodes in this podcast take one of three different formats: “Memory” episodes feature individuals with lived experience related to genocide or mass atrocity. “Evidence” episodes feature academic experts with emerging or establish research projects. And “Change” episodes feature individuals who have worked to implement change in our world. The Cohen Institute is a nonpartisan entity that aims to advance public ...

From the bestselling author of Born Survivors, a novel inspired by the powerful true story of a man who risked everything to protect children in Auschwitz. Fredy built a wall against suffering in their hearts . . . Amid the brutality of the Holocaust, one bright spot shone inside the Nazi death...

""This powerful, heart-wrenching novel follows a young Polish Jew through his incredible journey to escape the Nazis. Reuven’s story typifies that of millions of others experiencing the horrors and deprivations suffered by Jews in WWII and those who tried to help them. And yet, it is also an...

Less a mystery unsolved than a secret well kept... Using new technology, recently discovered documents and sophisticated investigative techniques, an international team—led by an obsessed retired FBI agent—has finally solved the mystery that has haunted generations since World War II: Who...

“Ethan Michaeli has a gimlet eye for the people, texture, and contradictions of modern Israel. I’m in awe of his powers of observation and his ability as a modern-day Tocqueville to take us inside one of the most complex and confounding countries in the world."" — Jonathan Alter...

A poignant exploration of what it means to be Jewish today, from a leading voice in modern Judaism, Rabbi Elliot Cosgrove of Park Avenue Synagogue For Jews today, the attack on Israel on October 7th has drawn a clear and irreversible demarcation in time. On that day, the Jewish community woke up...

A globe-spanning epic novel about a fractured New York family reckoning with the harms of the past and confronting humanity’s uncertain future, from award-winning author Jess Row For fifteen years, the Wilcoxes have been a family in name only. Though never the picture of happiness, they once...

Fleeing East from Nazi terror, over a million Polish Jews traversed the Soviet Union, many finding refuge in Muslim lands. Their story - the extraordinary saga of two thirds of Polish Jewish survivors - has never been fully told. Author Mikhal Dekel's father, Hannan Teitel, and her aunt Regina were two of these refugees. After they fled the town in eastern Poland where their family had been successful brewers for centuries, they endured extreme suffering in the Soviet forced labor camps known as "special settlements".

Virtually anyone, anywhere knows that six million Jewish human beings were killed in the Jewish Holocaust. But how many African human beings were killed in the Black Holocaust - from the start of the European slave trade (c. 1500) to the Civil War (1865)? And how many were enslaved? The Black Holocaust, a travesty that killed millions of African human beings, is the most underreported major event in world history.