In the Holy Roman Empire in the early 1500s, there was a campaign to burn all Jewish books. A legal... more

You may have heard of the transit camp Theresienstadt as a place of hope and resilience throughout the Holocaust. But... more

In 1933, Joseph Goebbels said that the Nazis could never have taken power without the radio. Heidi Tworek is a... more

In the 1960s, artist Eva Hesse found herself at the center of the iconic New York contemporary art scene. A... more

On this episode, we bring you two stories of people who unexpectedly unearthed their personal histories with the help of... more

The archive and library at LBI contains over 2000 memoirs. On this episode, Mark and literary critic Ruth Franklin, author... more

Among the hundreds of thousands of Jewish refugees who flooded out of Nazi Germany were countless artists, writers, and musicians.... more

The archive at the Leo Baeck Institute, New York is a real treasure trove. You’ll find everything from Albert Einstein’s... more

Many Jews scrambled to leave 1930s Germany and Austria, and ended up all over the world. Mark and historian Hasia... more

Love is one of the great constants of human history—and German Jews are no exception. LBI’s archive contains countless memoirs,... more