Leon Stepniak, a Polish priest, was arrested by the Gestapo in 1940 in the village of Klebowiec, and spent the next five years at Dachau in south-east Germany.

Jews have lived across Europe for centuries. Learn more about European Jewish life and culture before the Holocaust.

This collection of rare color photos of Berlin in 1937, uncovered from Norwegian archives, show scenes of life in the German capital during a tumultuous decade.

The first major Nazi camp was liberated by Allied troops in July, 1944. Learn more about liberation of camps towards the end of World War II.

As the crisis in our nursing homes raged during the COVID-19 pandemic, my mind turned to the Burderhof, wondering how their elderly were faring and what we could learn from them about how to better incorporate the elderly into broader society. So I reached out to Johann Huleatt, Bruderhof’s Outreach Director who hosted my family during our visit, to discuss these issues. Below is my interview with Huleatt, which has been edited for clarity.

In an appearance before the Economic Club, the former president defends the media, global outreach and, without mentioning Trump, warns that a country grown "complacent" could repeat history.

At the July 1938 Evian Conference, delegates from nations and organizations discussed the issue of Jewish refugees fleeing persecution in Nazi Germany. Learn more

Reinhard Schulz, collector and curator of photography at the National Archives, stumbled across the images while researching seized records for an exhibition on Heinrich Hoffman and are now made available through Getty Images.

September 1933 - Adolf Hitler breaks ground on his ambitious plans to link all major German cities with highways. This ceremony kicked off construction of the Frankfurt-am-Maine - Darmstadt/Mannheim highway. Betty White at home with her dog in 1952 An iceberg photographed in 1912 bearing an unmistakable mark of black and red paint. It is believed that this is the iceberg that sake the Titanic. Ham the chimp returns to Earth following his historic 16 minute space flight in 1961. The rather luxurious seating area of the submarine, The Protector, in 1902. Medical students pose with a cadaver around 1890. The fuel tanks of the B-24H Liberator "Little Warrior" explode over Germany after being hit by anti-aircraft guns in 1944. The Kennedy family leave the funeral of John F Kennedy in 1963. Native American couple, Situwuka and Katkwachsnea in 1912. Camp Commandant Amon Goeth, infamous from the movie "Schindler's List", on the balcony of his house overlooking Plaszow labor camp, Poland. 1943-44. Construction of the Sydney Opera House in 1966. 1945 - German POWs weep and sit in disgust as they watch footage shot at a German concentration camp. June 1915, Gallipoli: a Turkish sniper/sharpshooter, dressed as a tree, is captured by two Anzacs. Dinosaurs are transported on the Hudson River to the 1964 World's Fair. The Golden Gate Bridge around 1935. Children for sale in Chicago, 1948. Some parents sold their children due to poverty. Mourners pay their respect to slain civil rights leader, Medgar Evars in 1963. His killer was finally convicted in 1994. Union prisoners receive rations at Fort Sumter in 1864. The mugshot of Tokyo Rose, 1946. A rescue boat comes alongside the crippled USS West Virginia shortly after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941. Two childhood friends unexpectedly reunite on opposite sides of a demonstration in 1972. Survivors of the Titanic are taken on board the Carpathia in 1912. Wieluń just after German Luftwaffe bombing the 1st of September 1939. Not only did this bombing provide a spark for World War II, but it is generally believed to be the first terrorist bombing in history. Soviet soldiers stand dumfounded at a large pile of human ashes found at the Majdanek concentration camp in 1944. A burial at sea on board the USS Lexington in 1944. Crowds rush through the castle on Disneyland's opening day in 1955. A lion rides in the sidecar during a performance of The Wall of Death carnival attraction at Revere Beach, Massachusetts in 1929. Future presidents Bill Clinton and George Bush with Governor George Wallace at a BBQ in 1983. Dr. Werhner von Braun and Walt Disney in 1954. The Statue of Liberty photographed during a power failure in 1942. The RMS Olympic, the Titanic's sister ship, in wartime camouflage in 1915. Anastasia shares a smoke with her father, Tsar Nicholas II two years before their assassination in 1916. Children rush into a candy store following the end of "sweets rationing" in 1953. Soldiers comfort each other during the Korean war in the early 1950's. Stephen Hawking marries Jane Wilde in 1965. Albert Einstein brings sexy back in 1932. What is thought to be the oldest known war photograph: New Hampshire volunteers depart for the Mexican War in 1846. Coney Island in 1905. George W. Bush plays a little dirty rugby for Yale in 1966. Arnold Schwarzenegger shows off to some elderly women in the 1970's. Six year-old Arthur Conan-Doyle in 1865. Construction of Hoover Dam in 1934. Frank Sinatra asks Lou Gehrig for an autograph in 1939. Harry Houdini exposes "spirit trickery" in 1925. OJ Simpson carries the Olympic Torch in 1984. Nichole Brown can be seen on the left. A permanent stable cavity caused by the detonation on an underground nuclear test in 1961. Vladimir Putin and his childhood friends in 1969. None of them have been seen since! Amelia Earhart receives what proved to be her last haircut in 1937. The Japanese "War Tuba" used to locate enemy aircraft before the invention of radar. Circa 1930. Washington-Hoover Airport which was demolished in 1941. This is where the Pentagon stands today. Mark Twain in 1883. The aftermath of the Great Hurricane of 1900 which killed an estimated 8,000 people in Galveston, Texas. Prosthetic legs in 1900. Is this the mummified body of John Wilkes Booth? No... but it traveled the country for decades as a carnival exhibit under that claim. Circa 1939. The earliest known aerial photograph, taken from a balloon over Paris in 1858. View Verse of the Day

His first move as president was to ask a Virginia judge to find the group guilty of conspiring to commit violence at the deadly Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville in 2017.

Militaries have a habit of turning to women and expanding their role in times of war.

12. The stairs of the House of Slaves Slave exports from Goree Island off the coast of Senegal began about 1670. Despite its notoriety as the final exit point of the slaves from Africa, only an est…

BU 6911. Fascist politician and Nazi propaganda broadcaster William Joyce known as Lord Haw Haw lies in an ambulance after his arrest by British officers at Flensburg Germany on 29 May 1945

Following the departure of the Nazi hierarchy first to the Wolf’s Lair in East Prussia – from where they would move onto their final destination in Berlin – the Kehlstein mountain…

The final moments of Nazi monster Heinrich Himmler can be revealed 65 years after his suicide following the discovery of an old soldier's war diaries.

Nazi German concentration camp

Decades before the Nazis turned to the Jews, German colonialists in Southwest Africa - now Namibia - dehumanized, built death camps for, and slaughtered tens of thousands of tribespeople in a systematic genocide. Here, Edwin Black reveals the full horrors of an eerie and odious precursor of the Shoah, and its legacy in the US

Guard tower and barracks building, Auschwitz I.

This World War II timeline highlights important dates during January 1931 to August 1939. This time period saw Japan and Italy break away from the League of Nations and the rise of the Nazi Party in Germany. Follow the events of World War II.

This 1935 photo provided by German newspaper 'Die Welt' shows the family of Heinrich Himmler in Valepp, Bavaria. Himmler with wife Marga back row, daughter Gudrun, front center, son Gerhard right and family friend left. This photo is part of a trove of letters, notes and photos that were in the possession of an Israeli family.

A black activist who took control over one of the nation's largest neo-Nazi groups - and vowed to dismantle it - has died amid a legal fight over who would lead the group. An attorney for James Stern said he died Oct. 11 after getting hospice care for cancer. A friend says Stern died at home in Moreno Valley, California. Earlier this year, Stern said he persuaded the National Socialist Movement's former leader to transfer control of the group to him.

During the Holocaust, Jews were forced into ghettos with terrible living conditions, overcrowding, and starvation. Learn more about life in the Lodz ghetto.