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
‘Glamour Boys’: When an LGBT group of British MPs foresaw Hitler’s threat
At a time when gay sex was still illegal in Britain, their decision to break ranks with then prime minister Neville Chamberlain’s policy of appeasing Hitler in the 1930s was all the more courageous.
The story of the Resistance Movement in Hungary
As we reflect 75 years after the end of World War II, we have much documentation about great resistance to the Nazis in many countries.
Australian chain criticized for 'WWII evacuee' children's costume
While the official Smiffys site markets the costume as "wwii evacuee girl," at least one major site which sold the costume overseas had marketed it as an "Anne Frank costume."
Did World War II bring humanity peace, or are we back at square 1?
MIDDLE ISRAEL: 75 years on, the tools of the worst violence in human history are largely obsolete, but the mindset that underpinned it is alive and well
How political rivalries led to victimizing WWII refugees who had suffered most
In The Last Million, David Nasaw reveals the fate of people, “living, moving, pallid wreckage” in 1945, who refused to go home or had no home to return to.
Japan's Abe, on WW2 anniversary, vows not to repeat war
Shinzo Abe sent a ritual offering to Tokyo's Yasukuni Shrine for war dead.
Seth MacFarlane adapting Herman Wouk WWII novels for miniseries
The author, an observant Jew, also wrote “This Is My God,” a book summarizing the tenets of Judaism intended for both Jews and non-Jews.
Resistance fighter whose factory was used to make yellow stars dies at 98
The De Stentor newspaper reported Tuesday about van Gelderen’s death.
Unexploded Nazi mortar uncovered in ‘Warsaw Ghetto’ Jewish cemetery
The device was exposed during the cleaning of the First Quarter of the Okopowa Cemetery.
French town that saved Jews in WWII recently elected antisemtic mayor
He has been convicted of Holocaust denial or minimization by a French court and a German court for calling the gas chambers “a detail” of World War II.
