world war ii

Netanyahu calls for total victory over Hamas in Congress speech

Netanyahu's Congress speech called for total victory over Hamas and a demilitarized, deradicalized Gaza to achieve lasting peace.

By PESACH WOLICKI
01/08/2024

Controversy surrounding Israel's inclusion at annual atomic bombing memorial event

Nagasaki, the second city hit by an atomic bomb at the end of the Second World War, told CNN that they had not decided whether to invite Israel or not.

 A group of Bielski partisans in the Naliboki forest, May, 1944 (courtesy of Yad Vashem Photo Archiv

Jews saving Jews: The story of the Bielski partisans

'Even the old and the sick were valued in the Bielski partisans, and Tuvia made every effort to save their lives as well.'

By BETTY BRODSKY COHEN
20/07/2024

'How to Win an Information War': When Jews played antisemites to trick Hitler

A leading expert on disinformation recounts one of the great black arts of propaganda from World War II.

By COLIN SHINDLER
13/07/2024

Amateur detectives are invited to join search for a lost Jewish library looted by the Nazis

Looting Jewish libraries became a crucial part of Nazi Germany’s project to control narratives about Jewish history and culture.

By SHIRA LI BARTOV/JTA
04/07/2024

Conservative student group at UK university apologizes for singing, dancing to Nazi song

Students were filmed singing and dancing to 'Erika,' a song composed in 1938 by Herms Niel - a Nazi Sturmabteilung trooper leader.

Parade to mark Day of Liberation and Rescue of Jews by Allies takes place in Jerusalem

The holiday, which this year fell on June 3, commemorates the victims of the Holocaust and the allied rescue of the Jewish survivors from occupied Europe.

How an award ceremony reunited descendants of two saviors of Denmark's Jews

"For me, to celebrate my scientific work with the Danish royalty and people is to celebrate the amazing richness of humanity the Danes represented in the darkest period of my family’s life."

World leaders, veterans, commemorate D-Day's 80th anniversary in Normandy

Veterans and world leaders are gathering in Normandy to commemorate the 80th anniversary of D-Day. But Russia, which launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, was not invited.

By REUTERS
06/06/2024

How an angel miraculously saved this Holocaust survivor's book of poetry

Brigitte’s little red book of poems, lost during the Holocaust, was miraculously returned to her.

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