Wwii
USS Herring’s final resting place confirmed 82 years after being lost in WWII
Herring and her 83 crew were presumed lost after failing to report to Midway on July 13, 1944. She was stricken from the Navy Register four months later.
Archaeologists find over 3,000 artifacts from Stone Age to WWII in Netherlands valley
Pro-Palestine camp to take place at site of Jewish WWII deportations
Were your ancestors Nazis? New research tool allows people to find out
Wiesenthal Center calls on Croatian authorities to ban Holocaust deniers
The Croatian Revolutionary Movement Ustasha was a Roman Catholic, fascist, racist, ultranationalist and terrorist organization that promoted genocide against Serbs.
The possibility of a new Holocaust with the reincarnation of antisemitism
The era of “never again” is ending in Western Europe, fading in North America and never penetrated the Middle East.
Prince William unveils statue of man who saved Jews
MI6 spy Frank Foley is often referred to as the ‘British Oskar Schindler'.
Lionizing a rebel: Japan’s embrace of Chiune Sugihara
The war hero has become a draw for tourists– and a tool of moral education in rural Japan.
Austrian historian writes about Holocaust restitution - from prison
Austrian-Jewish historian slamms into his country's Holocaust resititution system, from prison.
Accomplices to the Holocaust
Recent research has shown that British and American planes stationed in Italy in 1944 could easily have struck Auschwitz. In fact, they were flying missions nearby and as far away as Warsaw.
Japan PM Abe honors 'Japanese Schindler' in Lithuania
The visit to Lithunia is the first by a Japanese prime minister and comes as Japan seeks greater cooperation with countries that were former adversaries in World War Two.
WWII refugee and three term mayor of Portland, Oregon dies at 84
The late former mayor Vera Katz escaped France by hiking through Pyrenees to Spain then arrived in New York City at the age of 7.
Riveting history: Weaved together the testimonies of Soviet women in WWII
The book is composed of oral histories Alexievich gathered in the late 1970s and early ’80s. Alexievich, who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2015.
The moral choice of a diplomat who defied orders
In June 1940, as the German army was sweeping southward in defeated France, Sousa Mendes was faced with an impossible conflict between his conscience and his loyalty to his government.