Holocaust

The kapo trials of the early 1960s confronted a difficult question: how should Israel judge Jews accused of complicity in the Holocaust?

‘Genocide’, the Holocaust episode of The World at War, was pioneering when it first aired. Does it stand the test of time? 

As Jewish lapidaries were held in Nazi concentration camps, diamond sales soared in the US. Both sides saw gemstones as integral to the war effort. 

‘Real world’ German responses to postwar genocide.

Nakam: The Holocaust Survivors Who Sought Full-Scale Revenge by Dina Porat explores acts of vengeance in the aftermath of the Second World War.

Europe’s Roma were the victims of Nazi genocide during the Second World War, but their persecution did not end in 1945. 

The Polish volunteer who infiltrated Auschwitz.

This episode examines the Nazi genocide through human interactions with three crime scenes.