World war ii
Yehuda Widawski, Israel’s oldest Holocaust survivor, dies at 107 on Rosh Hashanah
Born in Poland in 1919, Widawski was imprisoned with his family in the Lodz Ghetto following the Nazi invasion. He was later deported to Auschwitz, where he lost his parents and most of his siblings.
'Death of a Democracy': Exploring the rise and fall of Weimar Germany - review
Republican campaign staffer fired over use of SS soldiers in Facebook profile photo - report
‘It’s time to go home’: After 57 years in America, a Holocaust survivor comes home to Israel
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.
'Kotsuji's Gift': The Japanese scholar who rescued Jewish refugees during World War II - review
The picture is cropped. A Japanese man standing to one side has been cut away. That man is Kotsuji, and the book is the long work of putting him back.
