Wwii

This Jewish artist fought Nazis with a paintbrush, when art like his still mattered 

First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt praised his contribution to the war effort, saying his art “fights the war against Hitlerism as truly as any of us who cannot actually be on the fighting fronts.”

A detail from Arthur Szyk's “They Too Have a Right to Live,”  which first appeared in the May 12, 1943 issue of The New York Times and was presumably sponsored by the Emergency Committee to Save the Jewish People of Europe, an organization founded by Zionist activist Peter Bergson in 1943.
Morton Sher's fighter plane was shot down in 1943.

82 years after his plane was shot down in China, Jewish WWII pilot Morton Sher is laid to rest

Russian President Vladimir Putin visits a command post of Russia's joint force grouping in the course of a military conflict against Ukraine at an unidentified location, in this still image taken from video released December 1, 2025

Putin's warning: Russia is prepared to go to war against Europe

Spain's King Felipe welcomes German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier during a ceremony at the Royal Palace, in Madrid, Spain, November 26, 2025.

Steinmeier becomes first German head of state to visit Guernica since 1937 Nazi bombing


Japan airport shut after likely WW2-era bomb explodes near runway, 87 flights cancelled

The cause of the explosion was an American bomb that had been buried beneath the land surface.

 Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter shows part of a damaged taxiway at Miyazaki Airport in southwestern Japan on Oct. 2, 2024. The airport's runway was closed earlier in the day after an explosion was reported, resulting in the suspension of all Japan Airlines and All Nippon Airways flights.

Pre-Oct. 7 Hamas plan revealed: Dig up WWI, WWII graves and blackmail Britain - report

Hamas planned to extort Britain with the bodies, intending to claim a payment and have Britain retract Liz Truss's comments on an embassy in Jerusalem.

A Palestinian police man walks between the graves of thousands of allied soldiers who died in the bloody Battle of Gaza during World War One at the Commonwealth War Gaza Cemetery in the Gaza Strip. More than 3,000 fallen soldiers came from Britain, New Zealand, India, South Africa and the West Indie

Caring for the graves of Jewish WWII soldiers, 80 years on 

Operation Benjamin: making sure the graves of Jewish American GIs who fell in World War II are properly marked.

 DR. STEWART SADOWSKY and Dr. Samantha Baskind lower the casket of First Lt. Nathan Baskind into the grave, overseen by Normandy American Cemetery superintendent Scott Desjardins.

'Your Presence Is Mandatory': Connecting Ukraine’s past and present

Traversing time and geography through literature.

 UKRAINIAN WAR prisoner, guarded by serviceman of the separatist self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic army, awaits the next round of prisoner exchange, in Alexandrovka village

Jewish D-Day veteran buried in a Nazi mass grave to receive a proper burial

The group had never before uncovered a Jewish American who had been buried with the very Nazis he was fighting.

Troops in an LCVP landing craft approach Omaha Beach on D-Day, June 6, 1944

Postcards looted from Jews by German soldier returned by granddaughter 80 years later

Nine years after his death, when McCabe was 18, she inherited part of his proud stamp collection.

 German troops entering Warsaw after surrender of city in 1939.

Israel is being held to a double standard which punishes the victim - opinion

Let us not forget, that in the last months of World War II, Nazi Germany was subjected to enormous bombing attacks by the Allied countries.

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Nazi flag hung at Rangers match sparks outrage

The flag with the Nazi symbol was hung as the Rangers marked Armed Forces Day.

 A Russian totenkopf flag seen in 2014. The flag consists of a Totenkopf skull symbol used as SS emblem in Nazi Germany and the black-yellow-white first "State flag" of the Russian Empire (1858–1896) used by some Russian ultra-nationalists.

Israel urges Canada to address WW2 Nazi immigration policy towards Jews

Israel's envoy urges Canada to revisit WWII Nazi immigration and Jewish policy.

Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau at Parliament Hill in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, April 24, 2018.

Eighty years on, Italian victims of Nazi crimes finally to get compensation

In an ironic twist, it will be Italy rather than Germany that pays up, after it lost a battle in the International Court of Justice.

FASCIST SALUTE: ‘Il Duce’ Benito Mussolini with Nazi Chancellor Adolf Hitler.