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.

MORTON AND Carole Pancer outside their daughter Jessica Gertel’s home in Gush Etzion, days after beginning their new life in Israel. Morton, a Holocaust survivor, says Israel is ‘the land that we all belong to.’
Josef Mengele, in a document released by the Swiss intelligence service, September 10, 2026.

Switzerland releases digital files on Josef Mengele to public with 'as little as possible' redacted

A man looks at a Nazi flag as he visits the exhibition "Design of the Third Reich" at the Design Museum Den Bosch in 's-Hertogenbosch; illustrative.

Canadian federal court rules to release redacted sections of 1986 Nazi resettlement report

A partisan bunker is seen in Rūdninkai Forest.

Lithuania's Jewish partisan bunkers caught between Holocaust memory and military expansion


We must fight antisemitism to save our universities themselves - opinion

Today, American universities occupy the top position that German universities held 100 years ago. Decades after the end of World War II, they have not regained their past global preeminence.

Nazis bar Jews from a university in Vienna in 1938.

'Zaidy's Band': Revealing Canada’s contribution to World War II - review

Aron Heller's new book brings into the public arena the little-publicized history of the contribution in World War II of the Canadian Armed Forces, particularly its Jews.

THREE OF Zaidy’s comrades lie side by side in the military cemetery in Rehovot.

Israel's oldest person, Adele Samuelson, passes away at 111

Her grandchildren, Keren and Guy Gourfil, said that their grandmother was "an extraordinary, hardworking, and purposeful woman."

 Adele Samuelson

Holocaust survivor and member of group plot to kill six million Germans dead at 105

Yehuda 'Idek' Friedman, a Krakow-born Holocaust survivor and member of Nakam, has died at 105. He recounted the group's revenge plots in later interviews.

Yehuda "Idek" Friedman

WWII bomb found in Hong Kong defused after mass evacuation

A massive WWII-era US bomb discovered in Hong Kong triggered the evacuation of thousands before being safely defused by police bomb experts in a high-risk operation.

Members of the explosive ordinance disposal unit inspect a defused US-made bomb (C), dropped during World War II, that was found inside a construction site at the junction of Convention Avenue and Hung Hing Road in the Wan Chai district of Hong Kong on May 11, 2018.

WWII bomb forces overnight evacuation in central Berlin

Authorities established a 500-meter security perimeter in the densely populated district. Police officers went door-to-door, instructing residents to leave their homes immediately.

Illustrative: German police guard the Reichstag building, the seat of the German lower house of parliament Bundestag, before the German presidential election in Berlin, February 12, 2017

Ohio auction house halts sale of paintings looted during Holocaust, billed as ‘unclaimed property'

Two 17th-century paintings looted by Nazis were pulled from an Ohio auction after a Holocaust art restitution group confirmed their rightful heirs.

Two paintings believed to be by Ambrosius Bosschaert recovered by the Monuments Men and Women Foundation.

US says China spreads 'false' World War II narratives to pressure Taiwan

Beijing says documents such as the Cairo Declaration and Potsdam Proclamation support its legal claims of sovereignty over the island, as they call for Taiwan to be "restored" to China.

 IN RESPONSE to threats posed across the Taiwan Strait, the island has significantly bolstered its defenses. Here, a soldier is seen in front of a Hsiung Feng III mobile missile launcher during Taiwanese President Lai Ching-te’s visit to the base in October.

Argentina investigates daughter of former Nazi official and her husband over stolen painting

Friedrich Kadgien was a senior Nazi official who fled to Argentina after the war. He died in 1979.

Argentine Federal Police escort Patricia Kadgien to a hearing on charges of concealment and obstruction of justice, after authorities recovered a portrait of Contessa Colleoni by Italian artist Giuseppe Ghislandi, an iconic painting stolen decades ago by the Nazis, Argentina, September 4, 2025.

Argentina officials recover missing painting stolen by Nazis, ending 80-year mystery

One of 1,000 paintings stolen by Nazis was finally located after a global search.

Federal Attorney General of Mar del Plata Daniel Adler listens as Assistant Prosecutor Carlos Martinez addresses the media next to curator Ariel Bassano as a portrait of Contessa Colleoni by Italian artist Giuseppe Ghislandi, hangs on the wall, after Argentina officials recovered the iconic painting