World war ii
Nearly 90 years after a German officer defied Nazis on Kristallnacht, police pledge to protect Jews
Over 1,400 synagogues were burned and ransacked, including Germany’s then-largest Neue Synagogue in Berlin. Because of one police officer’s moral conviction, this historic synagogue was saved.
Jewish physics: 'The Man Who Broke Reality' spotlights Nazi-defying scientist Niels Bohr - review
Avraham Saide: The 100th anniversary of British-Palestinian passport No. 1
The enigma of Robert Oppenheimer: New biography revisits the man behind the atomic bomb - review
German prosecutors investigate alleged 105-year-old former-Nazi PoW camp guard over WWII crimes
Germany hasn't had a statute of limitations for murder or accessory to murder since 1979, allowing the prosecution of Nazi crimes from WWII.
German city votes to end Stolpersteine Holocaust memorial stones for Nazi victims
The motion was jointly submitted by representatives of the right-wing Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and AfD, together with representatives of the "Oberelbe Alliance for More Democracy."
US National Archives recovers over 120 previously unknown American POW statements from WWII
The documents were discovered by Waterloo resident Jason Hurdle inside a cardboard box hidden in a previously unknown crawlspace in his garage, The Washington Post reported last week.
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
Victor Sebestyen has painted a vivid picture of the life and eventual death of Weimar Germany, telling the painful story of Germany between 1918 and 1933.
Republican campaign staffer fired over use of SS soldiers in Facebook profile photo - report
Stephen Woytek also follows SS uniform suppliers on Facebook, and the report notes his apparent longstanding hobby of military reenactment.
‘It’s time to go home’: After 57 years in America, a Holocaust survivor comes home to Israel
DIASPORA AFFAIRS: From fleeing Nazi persecution as a baby to building a life in the US, Morton Pancer’s journey has brought him to Israel at age 86.
Switzerland releases digital files on Josef Mengele to public with 'as little as possible' redacted
In light of the “exceptionally high public interest,” the authorities decided not to limit access to individual reviews at the archives, but instead publish the file online.
Canadian federal court rules to release redacted sections of 1986 Nazi resettlement report
The ruling follows longstanding efforts of B’nai Brith Canada to make the entire document public.
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.”