Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Vancouver journalist Alan Twigg has just released Volume 1 of his new biography of Rudolf Vrba one of the most important, ...

Jonathan P. Baird lives in Wilmot. One extremely disturbing trend going on now is the popularity of far-right ideas, including those of Neo-Nazis and white supremacists. In considering why there has ...

The author reads his own account of the true story of two men who managed to flee Auschwitz Jonathan Freedland’s The Escape Artist tells the remarkable story of Rudolf Vrba, a 19-year-old prisoner at ...

Rudolf Vrba, who as a young man escaped from Auschwitz and provided the first eyewitness evidence not only of the magnitude of the tragedy unfolding at the death camp but also of the exact mechanics ...

David Remnick talks with Jonathan Freedland about his new book, which chronicles the life of Rudolf Vrba, who escaped from Auschwitz as a teen-ager. The Sudanese American poet talks with Dana Goodyear ...

May is Jewish American Heritage Month, and it’s needed now more than ever. Antisemitism is on the rise. In 2021, the most recent year for which data is available, there were 2,717 incidents of ...

Jonathan Freedland was a 19-year-old student when he went to see Shoah, Claude Lanzmann’s epic nine-hour documentary about the Holocaust. It left a deep mark on him, but one interviewee stood out. His ...

Rudolf Vrba, one of the few prisoners to escape from Auschwitz during World War II and the coauthor of the first eyewitness report detailing the extent of the atrocities there, has died. He was 81.