World war ii
Canada declassifies report exposing US intelligence role in resettling Nazis after WWII
In early September, the Federal Court sided with B'nai Brith, ordering the government to remove almost all redactions from the 618-page report pursuant to the Access to Information Act.
WWII air-raid shelter buried beneath German playground rediscovered during construction work
Danish university study examines antisemitic stereotypes in Agatha Christie’s novels
Tucker Carlson claims UK had no reason to join WWII, appears to defend Hitler's invasion of Poland
Christian woman who saved Jewish baby during Holocaust honored by Yad Vashem 83 years later
Efraim Kochba (born Ernst Bernard Van Coevorden) was raised in the Netherlands during World War II by parents Ziegfried Fritz and Martha van Coevorden.
Europe’s summer heatwave reveals Ice Age mammoth bones, sunken Nazi relics in receding Danube River
Near Opatovac, Croatia,receding water levels have also begun to reveal a shows the wreckage of the Hungarian cargo ship Fulton which sunk in the Danube in 1937 while transporting coal.
Archaeologists uncover treasures of Vilnius’ Great Synagogue as Lithuanian Jews dispute its future
Vilnius was a major center of Jewish thought, famed for both its religious tradition and modern secular Jewish culture. It was home to the 18th-century Vilna Gaon, a highly influential sage.
UNESCO adds 25 new World Heritage Sites including Mount Olympus, Normandy's D-Day beaches
The List of World Heritage Sites includes sites in three categories: cultural sites, natural sites, and mixed sites which combine the two.
Editor's Notes: Germany’s ‘good Jews’ thought they were safe, New York should pay attention
Nobody has to work anything out anymore. The question is whether a single one of Mamdani's Jewish voters will say they were wrong.
Lost Holocaust music, nearly erased by Stalin, goes on tour in Asia
The story emerged from 263 songs recorded in 1944 by Soviet Jewish ethnomusicologist Moisei Beregovsky from Ukrainian Jews newly freed from Romanian occupation in 1944.
'Once-in-a-generation' expedition sets sail to survey famed polar expedition ships
The targets of the new survey include Quest, a schooner-rigged steamship captained by Sir Ernest Shackleton, and Terra Nova, Captain Robert Falcon Scott’s whaler and polar expedition vessel.
At 250, America must remember what made it worth fighting for - opinion
America’s anniversary is a moment to celebrate its ideals and recognize the forces challenging the freedoms it was built to protect.
Oil and honor: The dire straits of martial propaganda in the US-Iran conflict - opinion
The West’s greatest vulnerability is not its enemies, but its own political and social fractures.
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.
