World war ii
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
UNESCO adds 25 new World Heritage Sites including Mount Olympus, Normandy's D-Day beaches
Editor's Notes: Germany’s ‘good Jews’ thought they were safe, New York should pay attention
Holocaust survivor and Ireland's oldest man, Josef Veselsky, dies aged 107
Following the end of the war in 1945, Veselsky became the secretary to a minister in the Czech government, but fled the country in 1948 amidst the communist takeover.
'The Traitors Circle': A spy thriller that asks - would you have defied the Nazis? - review
A spy-thriller true story of the Solf Circle – elite Germans who defied Hitler, rescued Jews, and paid dearly after betrayal – asking the question: what would you have done?
82 years after his plane was shot down in China, Jewish WWII pilot Morton Sher is laid to rest
The remains of Lt. Morton Sher, identified earlier this year, were buried in Greenville, South Carolina, on Dec. 14, what would have been his 105th birthday.
Warsaw Jewish cemetery director fired after clashing with state-funded heritage group
Jewish director alleges that the current contract between the foundation and the Jewish community board is “abusive,” limiting the influence of local Jews over projects in their own cemetery.
Viktor Ullmann’s 'Der Kaiser von Atlantis' as a manifesto against tyranny - review
Ullmann completed this significantly historical work in Ghetto Theresienstadt just before he was sent to his death in Auschwitz-Birkenau.
The Great Inversion: When Israel became the Diaspora's shield - opinion
It is no longer the Diaspora nurturing and protecting tenuous Israel. Now it is the reverse.
Jerusalem Jewish Film Festival features story of Polish Jewish teenager who triggered Kristallnacht
In Proud Jewish Boy, documentarian Isri Halpern sets out to find the truth about the 17-year-old Jewish refugee who assassinated a German diplomat in Paris in 1938.
Inside the Jewish Brigade’s untold Holocaust survivor rescue operations
Shlomo Shamir’s daughter, Yael Driver, uncovers her father’s hidden rescue efforts and role in shaping Israel’s future.
Outgoing US Special Envoy Keith Kellogg says Ukraine-Russia peace deal is 'really close'
Those proposals, which Russia now says contain 27 points, have been split up into four different components, according to the Kremlin. The exact contents are not in the public domain.
On This Day: Japan attacks Pearl Harbor, thrusting US into WWII
The infamous Japanese surprise attack on the US naval base in Hawaii 80 years ago became immortalized as a "day which will live in infamy."