Wwii

Israel to assume one-year chairmanship of Arlosen Archives, comprehensive WWII archive in 2027

In 2025, the Arolsen Archives partnered with Israel’s Central Zionist Archive to digitize over 1300 child tracing files, records originally created for unaccompanied Jewish children after the war.

Israeli soldiers stand guard during a ceremony marking Holocaust Remembrance Day at Yad Vashem in Jerusalem, April 14, 2026
The Quest, captained by Sir Ernest Shackleton; illustrative.

'Once-in-a-generation' expedition sets sail to survey famed polar expedition ships

Gideon Taylor, president of the World Jewish restitution Organization (WJRO).

Italian Parliament advances groundbreaking bill to return Holocaust-era looted art

The wreck of the Japanese “Hellship” transport Hōfuku Maru, July 3, 2026.

Wreck of Japan's WWII 'Hellship' carrying Allied POWs found off Philippine coast after 80 years


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.

Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe offers a silent prayer for the victims of the 1945 atomic bombing, at Peace Memorial Park in Hiroshima, western Japan, August 6, 2020, on the 75th anniversary of the atomic bombing of the city, August 6, 2020

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.

Seth MacFarlane 370

Resistance fighter whose factory was used to make yellow stars dies at 98

The De Stentor newspaper reported Tuesday about van Gelderen’s death.

An SS officer questions two Jewish resistance fighters in the Warsaw Ghetto, 1943

Unexploded Nazi mortar uncovered in ‘Warsaw Ghetto’ Jewish cemetery

The device was exposed during the cleaning of the First Quarter of the Okopowa Cemetery.

An Orthodox Jew walks through the Jewish Cemetery in Warsaw April 15, 2013. The 70th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising will be commemorated on April 19, 2013. Picture taken April 15, 2013.

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.

Romain Lopez won the mayoral race in Moissac with 62% of the vote, easily breaking a string of left-wing mayors in the French town dating back to 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.

Ambassadeur Sanz-Briz

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.

Japanese diplomat Sugihara Chiune, known as "Japanese Oskar Schindler."

Red Army veterans commemorate VE Day with IFCJ and Matav

VE Day marks the day the Soviet Union’s Red Army defeated Nazi Germany.

Red Army veteran Israel Berber

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

A portrait of Asher Weill

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.

Guard tower at Stutthof concentration camp