The Musée Nissim de Camondo is one of Paris's most beautiful house museums. Behind its extraordinary collection of French decorative arts lies a tragic family story that ended in Auschwitz.…
The Longest Journey of My Life For most of my life, Australia and New Zealand felt almost theoretical — names at the bottom of the map, separated from my daily reality by oceans and time zones. I had…
The Honourable Woman is a 2014 British political spy thriller written and directed by Hugo Blick for the BBC and SundanceTV. It is among the best television series I have seen. Maggie Gyllenhaal star…
The last military order personally signed by Adolf Hitler is a remarkable historical document. Written as Berlin fell to Soviet forces, it reveals how Hitler viewed himself even as the Third Reich was collapsing around him.…
For many viewers, Robert Clary will always be Corporal LeBeau from Hogan’s Heroes. Behind the laughter, however, was a Holocaust survivor who lost nearly his entire family and spent decades ensuring that the stories of victims and survivors would not be forgotten.…
Can artificial intelligence help restore identities lost during the Holocaust? From Numbers to Names, created by Google engineer Daniel Patt, uses facial recognition technology to connect Holocaust victims and survivors with photographs scattered across historical archives.…
Places that have stayed with me.…
I had flown from Washington Dulles through Iceland, and by the time I reached Glasgow I wasn’t hungry so much as determined — determined to stay awake until a reasonable bedtime and reset my clock. La…
In 2014, I stumbled across Paris, Paris: Journey into the City of Light. The author, David Downie, is an American who has lived in Paris since 1986. He loves Paris deeply and knows it far better than…
During World War II, Switzerland maintained extensive and highly profitable economic ties with Nazi Germany — ties that its own parliament would eventually commission a landmark inquiry to investigate…
For 135 years, the Concordia Club stood at the center of Jewish social life in Pittsburgh. My father worked there for many years, and as a teenager I took ballroom dance lessons in its elegant ballroom.…
Flickr explains the algorithm, at least a little.…