Wwii

Outcry in Germany over controversial plans to demolish Nazi bunker for luxury apartment building

The bunker is part of a subterranean bunker complex constructed over a period of ten years, and which served as the headquarters of the Nazi regime until the last week of World War II in Europe.

Kai Wegner (L,CDU), Governing Mayor of Berlin, Manja Schreiner (C,CDU), Senator for Mobility, Transport, and Christian Gaebler (L,SPD), Senator for Urban Development, view a public housing construction project
The submarine USS Herring (SS-233) passes Hunters Point Naval Shipyard in San Francisco on October 12, 1943.

USS Herring’s final resting place confirmed 82 years after being lost in WWII

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


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.

Romain Lopez won the mayoral race in Moissac with 62% of the vote, easily breaking a string of left-wing mayors in the French town dating back to World War II.

‘Spanish Schindler,’ who saved over 5,000 Jews during WWII, given tribute

It is believed that in the last seven months of 1944, Briz issued forged Spanish documents to 5,200 Jews.

Ambassadeur Sanz-Briz

Evidence of ‘Second Japanese Schindler’ found in US

Saburo Nei (1902-92), who was Japan's acting consul-general in Vladivostok, is believed to have granted visas to Jews during the war.

Japanese diplomat Sugihara Chiune, known as "Japanese Oskar Schindler."

Red Army veterans commemorate VE Day with IFCJ and Matav

VE Day marks the day the Soviet Union’s Red Army defeated Nazi Germany.

Red Army veteran Israel Berber

From the Outside Looking In: a selective memoir by Asher Weill

This is very readable memoir which includes many photographs of the multi-faceted aspects of his personal and working life

A portrait of Asher Weill

Former Nazi concentration camp guard to go on trial in Hamburg

Bruno Dey, 93, is accused of accessory in the murders of 5,230 prisoners between 1944 and 1945 in the Stutthof death camp, in what is now Poland.

Guard tower at Stutthof concentration camp

Visiting D-Day beaches: The morning of liberty

Seventy-five years later, June 8, 2019, I stood and gazed at that very same beach and watched the calm, still waters of the English Channel wash up onto the peaceful shore.

MORE THAN 9,000 graves fill the Normandy American Cemetery and Memorial in Colleville-sur-Mer, France

Bomb from the second World War defused in Frankfurt, 16,000 evacuated

The bomb, found close to the headquarters of the European Central bank, was unearthed on a construction site at the end of June and weighed 500kg.

The Frankfurt skyline

Audrey Hepburn fought the Nazis as a teen, according to new book

The book features never-before-published archival photographs, diaries and other records that add a new chapter to the story of a woman who was beloved by so many.

An artist puts finishing touches to a wax figure of actress Audrey Hepburn during a photo opportunity, a day before the opening of Madame Tussauds' Japan exhibition, in Tokyo September 27, 2011

Dutch rail company to pay Holocaust survivors compensation

NS reportedly earned millions of dollars from the Nazis for its work in transporting Jews and other minorities during the Holocaust.

A monument at former Nazi transition-camp Westerbork in the Netherlands .