While readers may be tempted to search for a shred of remorse in Mengele’s last years, the more Guez discloses the doctor’s final thoughts and emotions, the more we are struck with horror. “This is ...

One of the first Germans many of the Jews transported in cramped cattle cars to Auschwitz saw as they alighted after grueling days-long journeys was a mid-level Nazi officer of medium height. He was a ...

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 ...

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 ...

With “The Disappearance of Josef Mengele,” Russian dissident Kirill Serebrennikov trains his lens once more on the fault-lines of democracy, and the ease with which fascism takes hold 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.

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 ...

ASUNCION -- Mengele grew up in Guenzburg, Bavaria. Guenzburg is the present-day site of Legoland Deutschland and is just a couple hundred miles from the ancestral hometown of Alfredo Stroessner.

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 ...

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 ...

For more than 40 years, the world’s most wanted Nazi war criminal, Josef Mengele, evaded punishment by adopting false identities, leading a low-key lifestyle and moving from one obscure hideout to ...

A 20-minute tape purported to be of a 1971 recording of Dr. Joseph Mengele singing German love songs and playing the piano was released Thursday by a biographer of the notorious Nazi death camp ...