World war ii
‘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
Canadian federal court rules to release redacted sections of 1986 Nazi resettlement report
Lithuania's Jewish partisan bunkers caught between Holocaust memory and military expansion
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."
Sweden’s funding scandal empowered antisemitic networks, endangered Jews - opinion
Roughly $100 million in public funds in Sweden were diverted to institutional networks tied to radical Islamic actors, Swedish daily Dagens Nyheter reported.
How activists misused Nazi-era Dutch Jewish advocate's name to justify intimidation - opinion
By blocking a lawful public lecture, activists misused Cleveringa’s name and violated the sacred principle on which the academy is founded.
Israel Prize-winning director Ram Loevy passes away at 85
After the Six-Day War, Loevy helped set up the Israel Broadcasting Authority and Channel One in the late Sixties. He also taught at several film schools.
Israeli Air Force hero Maj.-Gen. (ret.) Dan Tolkowsky passes away at 104
Maj.-Gen. (ret.) Dan Tolkowsky will be laid to rest, with a full military ceremony, on Monday at 2:30 PM at the Nahalat Yitzhak Cemetery in Tel Aviv.
Steinmeier becomes first German head of state to visit Guernica since 1937 Nazi bombing
The German president laid a wreath at a cemetery housing a mausoleum built in 1973 for hundreds of victims of the bombings.
Germany may try 100-year-old alleged Nazi SS guard from WWII POW camp
Although the number of suspects in Nazi crimes is rapidly dwindling due to old age, prosecutors are still working to bring individuals to justice.
National Book Award in nonfiction goes to ‘One day, everyone will have always been against this'
“It’s very difficult to think in celebratory terms about a book that was written in response to a genocide,” El Akkad said in his acceptance speech.
Germany halts Holocaust artifacts auction amid widespread criticism
“For victims of Nazi persecution and Holocaust survivors, this auction is a cynical and shameless undertaking that leaves them outraged and speechless.” said Christoph Heubner.
Hitler claimed Jesus was German and royals were ‘Jews’ in a forgotten interview - study
The book, 'Hitler’s Interviews: The Dictator and the Journalists' by media historian Lutz Hachmeister, is the first comprehensive account of Hitler’s dealings with reporters.