Nazis arrested more than 100,000 homosexual men, labeling them “degenerates” and sending thousands to concentration camps marked with the pink triangle. Friedrich von Groszheim endured years of brutality—from Gestapo cells to Neuengamme camp. But long after the war, he continued to face persecuti...

This is the forgotten chapter of the Holocaust. While Nazi ideology targeted Jews and other so-called “enemies of the state,” it also persecuted Black people in Germany and across Europe. Gert Schramm was one of them. Deported to Buchenwald at the age of 15, he survived unimaginable cruelty and l...

Before the number 2318 was tattooed on her arm, Magda Hellinger was a devoted kindergarten teacher and youth leader in Michalovce, Slovakia — a young woman whose kindness and integrity inspired everyone around her. But when Slovakia embraced Nazi ideology, antisemitic laws stripped her community ...

Inside Auschwitz-Birkenau, surrounded by death and terror, Magda Hellinger became a prisoner-leader responsible for 30,000 women. Using courage, empathy, and extraordinary presence of mind, she risked her life to shield others from selections, starvation, and the gas chambers — even saving hundre...

On April 8, 1945, desperate prisoners at Buchenwald sent a secret SOS to the approaching U.S. Army, pleading for rescue before the SS could destroy them. Three days later, American troops liberated the camp and found over 21,000 survivors — among them a 4-year-old boy with tear-filled eyes and a ...

September 1938. Hitler’s demands tear Czechoslovakia apart, and a young Jewish girl named Dita Kraus (née Polachová) watches her peaceful childhood in Prague vanish.
This first part follows her early years under Nazi occupation — from losing her home and her father’s work to the harsh realities o...

Deported to Auschwitz at just fourteen, Dita Kraus (née Polachová) risked her life to guard a handful of smuggled books for the children’s block — becoming the librarian of Auschwitz.
From the horrors of Auschwitz-Birkenau to the final days in Bergen-Belsen, Dita endured starvation, loss, and uni...