Joseph Mengele has always loomed large in my family. His name is often evoked at the family dinner table or on a Shabbat afternoon when we gather in my grandparents’ living room. No one wants him ...

The cranium and bones of the notorious "Angel of Death," who died in Brazil decades after fleeing Auschwitz, will be available for study at Sao Paulo University. RIO DE JANEIRO (JTA) — The cranium and ...

In this Dec. 7, 2016 photo, forensic doctor Daniel Munoz shows the skull of Nazi war criminal Josef Mengele, at the school of medicine of Sao Paulo University in Sao Paulo, Brazil. In an ironic twist ...

RIO DE JANEIRO — The cranium and bones of Nazi leader Dr. Josef Mengele, who died in Brazil decades after fleeing Auschwitz, will be available for study at a Brazilian university. The remains of ...

Where does it go, the past? In 1949, it went to Argentina. In Olivier Guez’s novel “The Disappearance of Josef Mengele,” that is the year the notorious Auschwitz physician, the so-called Angel of ...

In a new biography, David G. Marwell tells the whole story of the notorious Nazi, down to the discovery of his bones. By Steven Aschheim Organizers sought to put a spotlight on the stories of ...

Throughout the impressively crafted and increasingly exasperating 135 minutes that make up Kirill Serebrennikov’s postwar Nazi-in-hiding chronicle, The Disappearance of Josef Menegele, the same ...

Josef Mengele was one of the most notorious war criminals in history. During World War II the Nazi doctor performed medical experiments in a concentration camp on unwilling children and adults, and ...

In the Talmud, when Hillel was challenged to teach the entire Torah “while standing on one foot,” Hillel answered, “Love your neighbor as yourself,” but “Remember” might have been a better answer.

I think of this alienated abstinence -- its tiresome pickiness, its inflexibility -- because it contrasts so harshly with how people thought Mengele and Bormann lived on the lam. In Ladislas Farago's ...

A series of swastikas and a reference to an infamous Nazi physician who tortured and experimented on Holocaust victims were spray painted on a garage door in San Francisco’s Marina neighborhood, ...