Before Jews in Lithuania’s Kaunas Ghetto took up arms to resist the Nazis, the community’s adolescents helped rescue Torah scrolls and other books in response to the Germans’ so-called “Books Aktion.” ...

In their effort to communicate complex thoughts, social scientists have borrowed lay terms with impunity. At times, the practice helps to clarify a difficult theory. Perhaps as often, it muddies the ...

The troops rounded up a thousand Jewish inhabitants before marching them to the Umschlagplatz, the notorious station in the north of the ghetto from where they would be transported to the Treblinka ...