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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.
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
‘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.
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.
Red Army veterans commemorate VE Day with IFCJ and Matav
VE Day marks the day the Soviet Union’s Red Army defeated Nazi Germany.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
WJC: Croatian Holocaust Monument 'distortion' of history
On June 4, Zagreb City Assembly elected to build a memorial to the Jewish victims of the Holocaust in Zagreb city center, and has faced a backlash for its decision.
