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Israel to assume one-year chairmanship of Arlosen Archives, comprehensive WWII archive in 2027
In 2025, the Arolsen Archives partnered with Israel’s Central Zionist Archive to digitize over 1300 child tracing files, records originally created for unaccompanied Jewish children after the war.
'Once-in-a-generation' expedition sets sail to survey famed polar expedition ships
Italian Parliament advances groundbreaking bill to return Holocaust-era looted art
Wreck of Japan's WWII 'Hellship' carrying Allied POWs found off Philippine coast after 80 years
Visiting D-Day beaches: The morning of liberty
Seventy-five years later, June 8, 2019, I stood and gazed at that very same beach and watched the calm, still waters of the English Channel wash up onto the peaceful shore.
Bomb from the second World War defused in Frankfurt, 16,000 evacuated
The bomb, found close to the headquarters of the European Central bank, was unearthed on a construction site at the end of June and weighed 500kg.
Audrey Hepburn fought the Nazis as a teen, according to new book
The book features never-before-published archival photographs, diaries and other records that add a new chapter to the story of a woman who was beloved by so many.
Dutch rail company to pay Holocaust survivors compensation
NS reportedly earned millions of dollars from the Nazis for its work in transporting Jews and other minorities during the Holocaust.
WJC: Croatian Holocaust Monument 'distortion' of history
On June 4, Zagreb City Assembly elected to build a memorial to the Jewish victims of the Holocaust in Zagreb city center, and has faced a backlash for its decision.
75 years later: How many Jews fought in D-Day?
Over 4,000 of the soldiers who landed on the Normandy beaches to fight in D-Day were Jewish,” said Walter Bingham, a Germany-born veteran who fought with the British Army in the Normandy landings.
Restored D-Day plane to make first flight on 75th anniversary
In December, Mikey McBryan acquired an old DC-3 plane that had been flown in the D-Day invasion. Since then, he and his crew have been restoring the aircraft piece by piece.
Out of the fires of Lvov
Esther Barbsch was just a girl when she and her family were forced to flee into the interior of the Soviet Union and seek refuge from the German invasion.
Debating how to fight antisemitism, then and now
Seventy-five years ago this spring, president Franklin D. Roosevelt was confronted by a similar dilemma.
How Karl Lagerfeld cleared Chanel of its antisemitic, Nazi roots
Not only was Chanel in bed with the Nazi cause, but there is strong evidence to suggest that she actively worked for the Nazis as a secret agent.