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.”
82 years after his plane was shot down in China, Jewish WWII pilot Morton Sher is laid to rest
Putin's warning: Russia is prepared to go to war against Europe
Steinmeier becomes first German head of state to visit Guernica since 1937 Nazi bombing
Japan's Abe, on WW2 anniversary, vows not to repeat war
Shinzo Abe sent a ritual offering to Tokyo's Yasukuni Shrine for war dead.
Seth MacFarlane adapting Herman Wouk WWII novels for miniseries
The author, an observant Jew, also wrote “This Is My God,” a book summarizing the tenets of Judaism intended for both Jews and non-Jews.
Resistance fighter whose factory was used to make yellow stars dies at 98
The De Stentor newspaper reported Tuesday about van Gelderen’s death.
Unexploded Nazi mortar uncovered in ‘Warsaw Ghetto’ Jewish cemetery
The device was exposed during the cleaning of the First Quarter of the Okopowa Cemetery.
French town that saved Jews in WWII recently elected antisemtic mayor
He has been convicted of Holocaust denial or minimization by a French court and a German court for calling the gas chambers “a detail” of World War II.
‘Spanish Schindler,’ who saved over 5,000 Jews during WWII, given tribute
It is believed that in the last seven months of 1944, Briz issued forged Spanish documents to 5,200 Jews.
Evidence of ‘Second Japanese Schindler’ found in US
Saburo Nei (1902-92), who was Japan's acting consul-general in Vladivostok, is believed to have granted visas to Jews during the war.
Red Army veterans commemorate VE Day with IFCJ and Matav
VE Day marks the day the Soviet Union’s Red Army defeated Nazi Germany.
From the Outside Looking In: a selective memoir by Asher Weill
This is very readable memoir which includes many photographs of the multi-faceted aspects of his personal and working life
Former Nazi concentration camp guard to go on trial in Hamburg
Bruno Dey, 93, is accused of accessory in the murders of 5,230 prisoners between 1944 and 1945 in the Stutthof death camp, in what is now Poland.
