World war ii
US World War Two memorial vandalized with soap, graffiti, government vows to find perpetrator
The fountain bubbled over with suds and someone painted "Clean hands Dirty $" on one surface, splattering the area with red and green paint.
Christian woman who saved Jewish baby during Holocaust honored by Yad Vashem 83 years later
Europe’s summer heatwave reveals Ice Age mammoth bones, sunken Nazi relics in receding Danube River
Archaeologists uncover treasures of Vilnius’ Great Synagogue as Lithuanian Jews dispute its future
UNESCO adds 25 new World Heritage Sites including Mount Olympus, Normandy's D-Day beaches
The List of World Heritage Sites includes sites in three categories: cultural sites, natural sites, and mixed sites which combine the two.
Editor's Notes: Germany’s ‘good Jews’ thought they were safe, New York should pay attention
Nobody has to work anything out anymore. The question is whether a single one of Mamdani's Jewish voters will say they were wrong.
Lost Holocaust music, nearly erased by Stalin, goes on tour in Asia
The story emerged from 263 songs recorded in 1944 by Soviet Jewish ethnomusicologist Moisei Beregovsky from Ukrainian Jews newly freed from Romanian occupation in 1944.
'Once-in-a-generation' expedition sets sail to survey famed polar expedition ships
The targets of the new survey include Quest, a schooner-rigged steamship captained by Sir Ernest Shackleton, and Terra Nova, Captain Robert Falcon Scott’s whaler and polar expedition vessel.
At 250, America must remember what made it worth fighting for - opinion
America’s anniversary is a moment to celebrate its ideals and recognize the forces challenging the freedoms it was built to protect.
Oil and honor: The dire straits of martial propaganda in the US-Iran conflict - opinion
The West’s greatest vulnerability is not its enemies, but its own political and social fractures.
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.
'Kotsuji's Gift': The Japanese scholar who rescued Jewish refugees during World War II - review
The picture is cropped. A Japanese man standing to one side has been cut away. That man is Kotsuji, and the book is the long work of putting him back.
Jewish hero’s inclusion in French Panthéon uncorks divisions over who wears mantle of resistance
About 80 national heroes have been inducted over two centuries in the Paris monument, from philosopher Voltaire and writer Victor Hugo to magistrate and Holocaust survivor Simone Veil.
America’s ‘luck’ is running out: The lost industrial engine that powered US greatness - opinion
America’s rise was driven by production and innovation, and its decline may begin with its loss.
