As Jews are now faced with a new reality, I look to my father’s generation for the blueprint to build the world we want.

In the final years of her husband's life, BJ Carter finally learned details of her husband's life he'd never remembered.

Belatedly, the survivors were rescued from obscurity and the human element of the tragedy came to the fore. Local and then international testimony projects emerged, the largest being the ongoing Visual History Archive which has interviewed close to 60,000 survivors, including of more recent genocides such as that in Rwanda.

It is only by listening to these individual voices that we can really begin to understand what the many millions of Holocaust victims went through.

A project of the Jewish Community Council of Greater Coney Island, the billboard aims to draw attention to the experiences and stories of New York’s dwindling population of survivors.

As the final generation of Holocaust survivors passes on, the books will remain as "material survivors, as witnesses."

*The other two extermination camps active at the time of the Allied offensive in the summer of 1944 are Chelmno and Auschwitz II. The Belzec, Sobibor and Treblinka,

REMEMBRANCE DAY IS JANUARY 27TH, AND IT HAS A SPECIAL MEANING THIS YEAR AS A WORLD RECOGNIZES 80 YEARS SINCE THE LIBERATION OF THE AUSCHWITZ CONCENTRATION CAMP, WE SPOKE TO A UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS PROFESSOR ABOUT THE SIGNIFICANCE OF REMEMBERING AND WHY LEARNING ABOUT THE ATROCITIES THAT WERE INFLICTED ON THE JEWISH PEOPLE MUST CONTINUE TO BE TAUGHT TO FUTURE GENERATIONS.

The Holocaust caused expedited change in language due to previously unknown trauma, physicality and extremely close contact.

Paula Apsell knows the importance of capturing the stories of the Jewish resistance during the Holocaust. The director worked for years on the documentary, “Resistance: They Fought Back.” The documentary will air at 9 p.

The International Museum of World War II in Wakefield includes an exhibit to educate and remind visitors about the Holocaust.