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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.

The submarine USS Herring (SS-233) passes Hunters Point Naval Shipyard in San Francisco on October 12, 1943.
One of the 3,000 artifacts discovered in Drenthe, the Netherlands, June 19, 2026.

Archaeologists find over 3,000 artifacts from Stone Age to WWII in Netherlands valley

A demonstration in support of Palestine and Lebanon marches through Stockholm to Gustav Adolfs Torg, Sweden October 5.

Pro-Palestine camp to take place at site of Jewish WWII deportations

A mass rally of Berliners took place in the Sportpalast, where Nazi Reich Minister of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda and Gauleiter of Berlin, Dr. Joseph Goebbels, with ruthless frankness, described the danger facing Europe, 1943.

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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.

A flower-shaped stone monument in Jasenovac, 100 km east of Zagreb in Croatia.

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.

Parts of the Holocaust memorial project "Stolpersteine" (stumbling blocks) are pictured in Berlin, Germany, August 18, 2017.

Prince William unveils statue of man who saved Jews

MI6 spy Frank Foley is often referred to as the ‘British Oskar Schindler'.

Britain's Prince William lays a wreath during a ceremony commemorating the six million Jews killed by the Nazis in the Holocaust, in the Hall of Remembrance at Yad Vashem

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.

A girl runs toward a shrine in Hida Furukawa, in Japan's Gifu prefecture, where the local government is promoting Chiune Sugihara's legacy as a tourism draw. (Michael Wilner, November 2017)

Austrian historian writes about Holocaust restitution - from prison

Austrian-Jewish historian slamms into his country's Holocaust resititution system, from prison.

Stephan Templ poses for a photograph in Prague April 4, 2014.

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.

A PORTION of a memorial to the victims of the Holocaust at Yad Vashem.

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.

Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe visits a former home of Chiune Sugihara, a Jew-saving Japanese diplomat in Kaunas, Lithuania.

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.

A pedestrian walks through a snow covered park in downtown Portland, Oregon.

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.

A WOMAN wears her medals during Victory Day celebrations in Riga, Latvia, in 2014, celebrating the victory of the Soviet Union’s Red Army over Nazi Germany in World War II.

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.

Portuguese diplomat Aristides de Sousa Mendes.