Menachem Z. Rosensaft

Menachem Z. Rosensaft teaches about the law of genocide at the law schools of Columbia and Cornell universities. The son of two survivors of Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen, he is the general counsel of the World Jewish Congress and editor of God, Faith & Identity from the Ashes, Reflections of Children and Grandchildren of Holocaust Survivors (Jewish Lights Publishing), available December 2014.

DETAILS ON a Jewish grave in Poland

A brave group of Polish diplomats tried to save my father from the Holocaust

Ronald Lauder speaks at WJC conference 370

Reliving Jewish history: The World Jewish Congress, 1936-2016

A family from Aleppo waits to cross into Macedonia. Thousands of migrants take this route towards Hungary and into the EU

We cannot turn our back on today’s refugees


The purpose of Holocaust remembrance must be the prevention of other genocides

Remarks delivered to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum’s Inaugural Second Generation Leadership Mission, Washington, DC, November 15, 2015.

Spain's Foreign Minister Jose Manuel Garcia-Margallo observes a moment of silence during a ceremony at the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial in Jerusalem, January 14

The Srebrenica massacre must be recognized as a genocide

Approximately 8,000 Bosnian Muslim men and boys between the ages of 12 and 77 were murdered at the hands of paramilitary Christian Bosnian-Serbian thugs.

A woman stands in front of the Memorial Center during a reburial ceremony of 136 newly identified victims in Potocari, near Srebrenica, Bosnia and Herzegovina

The Holocaust did not end at liberation

This article was adapted from remarks at the commemoration of the 70th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi concentration camp of Bergen-Belsen.

A memorial stone is pictured at the former Bergen-Belsen Nazi death camp

Let it go?

As God, Faith & Identity demonstrates conclusively, the survivors can be reassured that their legacy will be fiercely safeguarded by their children and grandchildren.

The controversial Holocaust memorial in Budapest, Hungary.

Biden aids Holocaust survivors

Society as a whole, including much of the organized Jewish community in the United States, has failed to adequately step forward to meet the needs of survivors who go hungry, or are cold.

US VP Joe Biden and his wife Jill at Yad Vashem 370

Ostracize ghouls who peddle Holocaust artifacts

They’re back: the depraved auctioneers and other entrepreneurs who brazenly hawk Holocaust artifacts to make a quick buck.

auschwitz sign 370

A moral compass for the ages

In sharp contrast to Kissinger, Sir Nicholas Winton understood that coming to the aid of persecuted fellow human beings must always be not just an American but a universal concern and priority.

Henry Kissinger Interview 370

A man of integrity who deserved better

Sam Norich is a man of absolute integrity. He deserved better – much, much better – than the shabby treatment to which he was subjected at the recent meeting of the board of directors of the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany, commonly known as the Claims Conference.

Claims Conference

Yizkor

Perhaps the most important aspect of the music composed and poems written during the the Holocaust was that they enabled escape, if only for a little while.

Holocaust candles 521

Ominous clouds hover once again over Europe

This speech was delivered on April 21, 2013, at Bergen-Belsen, Germany, marking the 68th anniversary of that concentration camp’s liberation.

Site of Nazi concentration camp Bergen Belsen 370