Representatives of the Chinese, El Salvadorian and Albanian governments gathered in Jerusalem on Monday to discuss responses among members of the diplomatic community to the Holocaust, highlighting the role of consuls and ambassadors who took it upon themselves to save Jews despite orders to the contrary.
One would have thought that all direct testimonies of World War II had already been recorded. Well, not so.
The doorbell rang at 6:45 a.m. on Sept. 1, 1939, waking 17-year-old Fred (then Friedrich) Klein, who was at home in Pilsen, Czechoslovakia, on vacation from art school in Prague.
A 95-year-old former Nazi SS paramedic at the Auschwitz death camp, accused of being an accomplice to the murder of thousands, is to stand trial in Germany on Monday, one in a series of such recent cases.
Three survivors spoke on Friday of the smell of burnt bodies and piles of the dead at Nazi Germany\’s Auschwitz death camp, one of whose former guards stands accused of helping in the murder of at least 170,000 people.
Poland is drawing up new regulations to punish use of the phrase \”Polish death camps\” when referring to wartime Nazi concentration camps on Polish soil, Justice Minister Zbigniew Ziobro said on Saturday.
A 93-year-old former Nazi guard at Auschwitz will go on trial in Germany in April — the third such case to be tried in 2016.
Teresa Susskind, who was part of a famed World War II code-breaking team, died Nov. 29 in her home in Berkeley. She was 94.
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump on Tuesday defended his proposal to ban Muslims from entering the United States, comparing his plan to the World War II detainment of Japanese-Americans and others in dismissing growing outrage from around the world.
A woman suicide bomber blew herself up in a police raid on Wednesday that sources said had foiled a jihadi plan to hit Paris\’s business district, days after a wave of attacks killed 129 across the French capital.
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