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 ...
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, ...
IT’S 935 THIS SUNDAY. HISTORY COMES TO LIFE IN A PROJECT UNLIKE ANYTHING THAT WE AT KCRA HAVE DONE BEFORE, AND KCRA 3’S DEIRDRE FITZPATRICK IS IN STUDIO WITH US TO GIVE US A PREVIEW. AND DEIRDRE, THIS ...
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 ...
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.
ROCHESTER, N.Y. – This week marks 80 years since the liberation of Auschwitz, the camp in southern Poland where Nazi forces murdered around 1.1 million people, mostly Jewish, during World War II. To ...
“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: ...
KCRA 3’s documentary “Always Remember Your Name” follows one of the world's youngest Holocaust survivors, Andra Bucci, as she ...