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Pro-Palestine camp to take place at site of Jewish WWII deportations
Moorweide in Hamburg is the site from which around 6,000 Jews, as well as Sinti and Roma, were deported during the Holocaust.
Were your ancestors Nazis? New research tool allows people to find out
Behind the US Air Force unit that spearheaded the mission to rescue downed airman
This Jewish artist fought Nazis with a paintbrush, when art like his still mattered
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.
L'Oréal heiress Liliane Bettencourt's messy dance with Jewish history
From a Nazi-sympathizer father to Jewish grandchildren, Liliane Bettencourt led a complicated but colorful life.
Warsaw residents join Sabbath dinner to remember the start of World War II
Among the guests was David D’or, an Israeli singer; Krystyna Willenberg, the wife of Samuel Willenberg, a Treblinka survivor who died last year.
