Last inmate from initial 1940 transport of Poles to Auschwitz dies
The Germans caught Kazimierz Albin in 1940 as he fled occupied Poland to join Polish armed forces abroad. He fled ...
Tag: World War II
Long lost WWII-era Soviet songs brought to life in Israel
"Yiddish Glory" presents songs by Soviet Jews that describe the horrors of World War II and the Holocaust. "The last ...
Romania finds 'many' more human remains near site of Jewish mass grave
Remains, along with a grenade and 82 mm gun-mortar, found near area where, in 2010, archaeologists discovered a mass grave ...
Israel trying to keep Ukrainian town from turning Holocaust-era mass grave into real estate
Israeli Ambassador to Ukraine Rabbi Joël Lion pleads with mayor of Poltava, Oleksandr Shamota, to preserve the site where Germans ...
Poland honors national soccer player murdered in Holocaust
Jozef Klotz, a Polish Jewish soccer player who scored the national team’s first ever goal in an international match, was ...
Remains of Holocaust victims laid to rest in Belarus
Mass grave was discovered at a building site in the city of Brest earlier this year. Local Jewish community criticizes ...
Holocaust survivor, US World War II vet have emotional meeting
Sophie Tajch Klisman thanks Doug Harvey, who served with the 84th Infantry Division, for his part in the 1945 liberation ...
New edition of famed diary 'brings readers closer' to Anne Frank
Holocaust survivor Laureen Nussbaum, 91, says new edition of the diary is "what Anne wanted to write and publish."
Installation of Nazi-era 'dejudification institute' unveiled
High-ranking officials of Germany's Lutheran church unveil the installation to remember the malign activities of a so-called "dejudification institute" that ...
World Jewish Congress says Germany dragging heels on Nazi-looted art
Germany's commissioner for culture, Monika Gruetters, told an audience in Israel last month that she had tripled the funding for ...