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Between 1943 and 1945, while hiding from Nazi deportation during the German occupation of the Netherlands, German Jewish writer Curt Bloch created Onderwater-Cabaret (“Underwater Cabaret”) in secrecy, a handmade, illustrated poetry magazine that used satire, wordplay and wit to confront Nazi propaganda and affirm Jewish humanity in the darkest of circumstances. Now, decades later, Bloch’s … This immersive NYC art installation explores the origins of a secret Holocaust-era poetry magazine

Last week, the New York Historical unveiled a deeply moving new exhibition: “The Recordings: Voices from the Shoah Tapes,” on view through March 29, 2026. Presented in partnership with the Jewish Museum Berlin, the exhibition offers a rare listening experience drawn from the recently uncovered audio archive of Shoah, Claude Lanzmann’s groundbreaking 1985 Holocaust documentary. … A new exhibit at the New York Historical highlights rare Holocaust recordings

Earlier this week, New York City Mayor Eric Adams and Queens Borough President Donovan Richards announced plans to develop the Queens Holocaust Memorial—set to be the first major Holocaust memorial in the borough. The project, which will be built in part from $3 million in combined city and borough funding, will honor the six million … NYC to build a new Holocaust memorial in Queens

Joining a crowded roster of recent productions focusing on the Holocaust, Here There Are Blueberries is a new play about a real-life photo album that belonged to an SS officer that helped run Auschwitz. A finalist for this year’s Pulitzer Prize in drama (the award eventually went to Primary Trust by Eboni Booth), the 90-minute … This 90-minute play about a chilling album of WWII photos was a Pulitzer Prize finalist

Every year on April 19, a crowd of New Yorkers gathers at Riverside Park on Manhattan’s Upper West Side to commemorate the anniversary of the start of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, the 1943 act of Jewish resistance in German-occupied Poland. Specifically, attendees meet by an iron fence that guards a plaque that was originally installed … Did you know this plaque in Riverside Park was supposed to become the first Holocaust monument in the U.S.?