In Tuesday’s episode, historian and “Finding Your Roots” host Henry Louis Gates Jr. presents Caplan, 43, with genealogical information about her mother Barbara’s ancestors. Barbara died of cancer when Caplan was 13. The episode, titled “The Road We Took,” also explores the family history of Pakistani-American comedian Hasan Minhaj.

Paul Sved and his son Richard both work with the Holocaust Educational Trust.

This initiative is made possible through the Jewish Federation of the Quad Cities, the Jewish Federation of Des Moines and the Sioux City Symphony Orchestra.

College of Charleston Joe Engel was and remains an icon in Charleston, South Carolina. Born in Zakroczym, Poland, he survived Auschwitz and several other concentration camps and fought with the resistance before landing on American shores as a refugee in 1949.

A heartwarming viral moment a man found out the children he helped escape the Holocaust were surrounding him led to a film being made about his life

Sir Nicholas Winton is personally credited with saving no fewer than 669 children from certain death at the hands of the Nazis, but his story went until for four decades.

On International Holocaust Remembrance Day, it’s timely to reflect on how the liberation of the camps was reported at the time – and how it changed journalism.

It is a living proof that life continues,’ the reunited family members of Holocaust survivors and victims told The Independent

Special television programming will mark International Holocaust Remembrance Day on Tuesday, January 27.