Mystic — Officials at Mystic Seaport Museum are assessing possible damage to a boat that helped save the lives of hundreds of Danish Jews during World War II. During routine morning rounds Thursday, ...
Join the Siegal Lifelong Learning Program for a lecture by Michael Berkowitz, professor of modern Jewish history at University College, London, Wednesday, March 22, at 7 p.m. at the Landmark Centre ...
I had long heard that Jewish refugees found refuge in Shanghai during World War II. When I visited the city, I even tried to locate the area where they had ...
KCRA 3’s documentary “Always Remember Your Name” follows one of the world's youngest Holocaust survivors, Andra Bucci, as she ...
WARSAW, Poland (AP) — The son of a Holocaust survivor fulfilled a yearslong personal mission Wednesday with the unveiling of memorials in a Polish forest that honor hundreds of Jews murdered by German ...
During the lesser-known 1943 Sobibor Uprising, several hundred Jews fled into the forests of Poland, where many were tracked down and shot. Fifty-eight Sobibor inmates survived the war Meilan Solly - ...
Discover the paradox of Jewish soldiers in Hitler’s army a story of identity, loyalty, and survival in a world of extremes.
“Wartime Poland was the closest thing to Hell on this earth,” Father Jan Januszewski, a Dachau survivor, told me shortly before he passed away in Key Largo, Florida, in 1987. When the Germans defeated ...
Ireland’s postal service released a stamp marking the 100th anniversary of the ordination of Monsignor Hugh O’Flaherty — the ...
(JTA) — Is the glass one-third empty or two-thirds full? A poll commissioned by distributors of Holocaust film “Return to the Hiding Place” asked 1,000 Americans a question many Jews have pondered: ...
Three Bulgarian men are on trial in Paris accused of involvement in spray-painting red hands around the Paris Holocaust ...