A conference focusing on Romania\’s Holocaust-era war crimes in Ukraine and Moldova called on Romania to acknowledge and apologize for the murder of hundreds of thousands of Jews.
Nancy Wake, a New Zealand-born World War II heroine codenamed “The White Mouse” because of her ability to elude the Nazis, has died.
\”Every day of freedom is like an act of faith,\” says Tuvia Bielski, one of three brothers who led a partisan group battling Nazi troops in the forests of Belarus.
June 6, 1944, may have been the most important day of the 20th century. The Allied invasion of France breached Hitler\’s Atlantic Wall and decisively turned the war against the Nazi regime.
I used to think that between the time of the destruction of the Second Temple in 70 A.D., and the birth of Israel in 1948, there was no such thing as an
\nexclusively Jewish city. Sure, there were plenty of Jewish ghettos and neighborhoods scattered throughout the globe, but a city with only Jews in it? I never imagined it.
More than 60 years have passed, yet French filmmakers are still wrestling with their country\’s less than heroic role under Nazi occupation during World War II.
Several prominent Jews spied for the United States during World War II, newly released documents show
\”We wanted to use four [American] towns as examples to get to know people — those who fought and those who stayed at home — and to get to their experiences as it happened.\”
The result is Burns and co-director Lynn Novick seeing the war as it was unfolding through the eyes of soldiers from Mobile, Ala.; Sacramento; Waterbury, Conn., and Luverne, Minn., to show, in so many ways, the ongoing hellishness of even a necessary war.
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