World war ii
Lithuania's Jewish partisan bunkers caught between Holocaust memory and military expansion
Lithuania was for centuries a center of rich Jewish thought, religious life and secular culture; Vilna, as the capital was known in Yiddish, was nicknamed the “Jerusalem of the North.”
Rethinking 1953: Deconstructing the myth of Mosaddegh’s democratic legitimacy - opinion
Jewish WWII British special forces veteran who fought against Nazis in Africa dies, aged 100
Nazi war criminal's chilling account of Warsaw Ghetto destruction reaches English readers
Nagasaki mayor warns of nuclear war as city marks 80 years since atomic bomb
On the 80th anniversary of the US's atomic bombing of the western Japanese city of Nagasaki, Mayor Shiro Suzuki called on the world to abolish nuclear weapons.
Hiroshima warns against nuclear weapons as it marks 80 years since Atomic bomb
"To all the leaders around the world: Please visit Hiroshima and witness for yourselves the reality of the atomic bombing."
Yair Netanyahu calls Qatar 'modern-day Nazi Germany,' source of global antisemitism
“Qatar is the main force behind the unprecedented wave of antisemitism around the world, not seen since the 1930s and 1940s,” Yair Netanyahu said.
Israel will do to Gaza 'what we did to Tokyo and Berlin,' Lindsey Graham says
“Hamas is a terrorist organization that is chartered to destroy the state of Israel," Senator Lindsey Graham told NBC. "They're religious Nazis."
Why did Bard College’s orchestra performed Mendelssohn at site of Hitler’s Nuremberg rallies?
At the hour of Germany’s surrender in 1945, they performed a program by Felix Mendelssohn — whose music was banned under the Nazis because of his Jewish heritage.
Shipwreck of Japanese destroyer Teruzuki found off Guadalcanal
Discovery of the wreck was announced on July 12 by the Ocean Exploration Trust.
France ends permanent troop presence in Senegal
"Today's transfer of Camp Geille marks a new stage in the evolution of the partnership between our two armed forces," General Pascal Ianni said.
Alaska’s Nazi Creek renamed after 80 years, following advocacy by son of WWII veteran
Following a campaign by a local advocate, the creek was given a new name in the language of the local Indigenous people, in a move supported by an Anchorage synagogue.
In a Polish town where locals burned Jews alive in 1941, new plaques deny complicity with Nazis
In 1941, local residents of Jedwabne killed hundreds of their Jewish neighbors, most of them in a barn where they were burned alive.
False equivalency of Gaza and Dresden: One was revenge, the other self-defense - opinion
Dresden was revenge against a defeated enemy. Gaza is self-defense against an enemy that still openly calls for Israel’s annihilation.
