Wwii

Outcry in Germany over controversial plans to demolish Nazi bunker for luxury apartment building

The bunker is part of a subterranean bunker complex constructed over a period of ten years, and which served as the headquarters of the Nazi regime until the last week of World War II in Europe.

Kai Wegner (L,CDU), Governing Mayor of Berlin, Manja Schreiner (C,CDU), Senator for Mobility, Transport, and Christian Gaebler (L,SPD), Senator for Urban Development, view a public housing construction project
The submarine USS Herring (SS-233) passes Hunters Point Naval Shipyard in San Francisco on October 12, 1943.

USS Herring’s final resting place confirmed 82 years after being lost in WWII

One of the 3,000 artifacts discovered in Drenthe, the Netherlands, June 19, 2026.

Archaeologists find over 3,000 artifacts from Stone Age to WWII in Netherlands valley

A demonstration in support of Palestine and Lebanon marches through Stockholm to Gustav Adolfs Torg, Sweden October 5.

Pro-Palestine camp to take place at site of Jewish WWII deportations


WJC: Croatian Holocaust Monument 'distortion' of history

On June 4, Zagreb City Assembly elected to build a memorial to the Jewish victims of the Holocaust in Zagreb city center, and has faced a backlash for its decision.

Croatian soldier of the Ustasha, 1942

75 years later: How many Jews fought in D-Day?

Over 4,000 of the soldiers who landed on the Normandy beaches to fight in D-Day were Jewish,” said Walter Bingham, a Germany-born veteran who fought with the British Army in the Normandy landings.

BRITISH FORCES during the D-Day invasion of Normandy on June 6, 1944: Troops of the 3rd Infantry Division on Queen Red Beach.

Restored D-Day plane to make first flight on 75th anniversary

In December, Mikey McBryan acquired an old DC-3 plane that had been flown in the D-Day invasion. Since then, he and his crew have been restoring the aircraft piece by piece.

C47 - The workhorse (aka DC3 or Dakota) after restoration.

Out of the fires of Lvov

Esther Barbsch was just a girl when she and her family were forced to flee into the interior of the Soviet Union and seek refuge from the German invasion.

JEWISH GRAVES in Ukraine.

Debating how to fight antisemitism, then and now

Seventy-five years ago this spring, president Franklin D. Roosevelt was confronted by a similar dilemma.

FRANKLIN ROOSEVELT

How Karl Lagerfeld cleared Chanel of its antisemitic, Nazi roots

Not only was Chanel in bed with the Nazi cause, but there is strong evidence to suggest that she actively worked for the Nazis as a secret agent.

Coco Chanel 311

Govt. approves NIS17m. for memorial to Jewish fighters in WWII

The project, which first was approved by a government decision in 2002, is expected to be completed by 2022.

WWII veterans

Dining for the devil

Rosella Postroni’s novel about Hitler’s food-tasters is a flimsy whitewashing of German complicity.

ADOLF HITLER dines with Russian foreign minister Vyacheslav Molotov in 1940.

Familial rivalry

Lynda Cohen Loigman’s sophomore novel dives into the lives of two warring sisters during World War II.

‘THERE ARE lies – told by both sisters – that threaten to destroy their fragile family ties.’

Moldova, new to Holocaust remembrance, institutes a plan

Moldova's Jewish residents largely fled or were deported to their deaths during the Shoah, and its government has only marked Holocaust Remembrance Day since 2016.

Moldova's national flag is seen in central Chisinau, Moldova