Tag: World War II

He visited the Bank of England and met the Chief Cashier, who presented him with one of the notes which he had forged in the concentration camp more than sixty years earlier.

Perhaps now Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg's soul can rest: Stockholm has officially declared him dead.

ISIS terrorists echoed the Nazis when faced with defeat in Mosul, murdering their human shields and bulldozing the bodies into a mass grave.

One of the three scientists who won the 2016 Nobel Prize in physics is Jewish.

Max Mannheimer was silent about his nightmare and depression for decades.

Lithuanians marked the 75th anniversary of the massacre of Jews in Moletai by Nazis and local collaborators during World War II.

The last Polish Jew who managed to survive the Sobibor Nazi death camp has passed away at the age of 90.

The former chief of the KGB bequeaths evidence about Raoul Wallenberg for future generations, in papers found in a suitcase.

Jews arriving in Israel to begin new lives are telling horror stories about France that sound like pre-WWII Germany.

One author interviewed multiple random university students to find out what they knew about World War II. The answer: Almost nothing.

Master Sgt. Robbie Edwards, as a POW, told a Nazi officer if he wants to exterminate Jewish soldiers, he has to murder him and fellow non-Jews.

A 91-year-old SS woman aided operations that led to the murder of 260,000 Jews.

Their remains had been kept in jars and test tubes in a French medical school.

The management of the former death camp says there was no intention to remind people of the gas "showers."

God may forgive. He never forgets.

Two UK teen boys are accused of stealing Holocaust artifacts at Auschwitz.

“We cannot guarantee that a humanitarian catastrophe of the extent of the Holocaust will not happen again,” said Red Cross President Peter Maurer.

Lauder: 'Jews demanded no 'Right of Return' to Germany or Austria or Poland or any other European country.'

The hand-written notebook belonging to British World War II "Enigma" code-breaker Alan Turing sells for $1M at auction.

World War I had sown chaos throughout the centuries-old Jewish communities of Eastern Europe.

Ze’ev’s childhood dream was to wear a uniform and be farmer. First, it was a nightmare. In Israel, it was a dream come true.

Rabbi Yitzchak Dovid Grossman examined the piece of Torah parchment, cut from a Torah scroll in an Eastern European synagogue, and used by a Luftwaffe officer to wrap his ID card during World War II.

Holocaust historian Randoph Braham is returning a high honor from the Hungarian state as a protest against attempts to whitewash Hungary’s role in the...

A Polish couple pleaded guilty to the desecration of a historic site for destroying a Holocaust-era Jewish hideout in the Warsaw apartment the couple...

During his visit to China last month, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu recalled that the city of Shanghai was “one of the few places that opened its gates” to Jews fleeing Hitler. Officials of the Chinese Communist government, standing nearby, beamed with pleasure at the expectation that people all over the world would read how their regime rescued Jews.

Many readers have probably seen the film “Sarah’s Key,” a powerful 2010 movie that reminds its viewers of overwhelming French collaboration with the Nazis. Even today it seems widely believed that France carried on more or less heroically under the German occupation, and that the 1942 roundups of Jews in occupied France must have been carried out by the SS or Gestapo directly. In fact, however, as “Sarah’s Key” instructs in understated yet utterly hideous detail, these roundups were executed, more or less enthusiastically, by the regular French police.

A Texas state official spoke at a Memorial Day service and quoted a Jewish chaplain’s dedication of a temporary cemetery on Iwo Jima in...

Are we to believe that these Jews who were devout and pious were being punished?

Irena Sendler smuggled 2,500 children out of the ghetto.

Even in the Dutch mass media there are shocking things written on a regular basis about Jews and Israel.