For Holocaust Remembrance Day we talk with Ilie Wacs and Deborah Strobin, a brother and sister who have written a memoir about their family’s life as Jewish refugees in the Far East during World War II and their connection to the larger Jewish story of survival and endurance.

Watch more of Kim Lawton’s interview with siblings who describe how their family survived World War II in a Jewish ghetto in Japanese-occupied Shanghai.

During World War II, conductor Rafael Schaechter led Jewish musicians in performances of Verdi's Requiem before Nazi audiences at the Terezin concentration camp and said, "We can sing to them what we cannot say to them."

“In that courtroom in Jerusalem 50 years ago, people heard the voices of those victims in a way that they hadn’t heard them before,” says Deborah Lipstadt, professor of modern Jewish history and Holocaust studies at Emory University and the author of “The Eichmann Trial.”

A program of study, dialogue, and commemoration encourages Jewish and Christian high school students to understand each other's faith.

"You have a whole new generation of Jews and Christians for whom all this either seems old-fashioned or unnecessary or the job has been done. Maybe they think we’ve succeeded, but we haven’t," says one interreligious affairs leader.

At times of cataclysm, catastrophe, and natural disaster, people ask many questions about God and his purposes.

Father Patrick Desbois has documented the murder of 1.5 million Jews who were shot dead and buried throughout Ukraine by the Nazis. Finding the mass graves has been "a sacred mission."

Menachem Youlus, a Torah scribe who has been called the Indiana Jones of rabbis, has traveled to dangerous places all over the world in his mission to find, rescue, and recover sacred Torah scrolls.

It's been 50 years since the liberation of the Nazi death camp at Auschwitz. As a child, Eva Kor was a prisoner at the camp. Now she returns on a mission to give amnesty to all Nazis who participated directly or indirectly in the murder of her family and millions of others.