To be a woman in 1914 in Britain, your life was defined more by what you couldn’t do than what you could. You couldn’t read the lesson, you couldn’t preach in church, certainly not in the ...
From the Reconstruction era to the Cold War, multiple administrations have tried (and failed) to acquire the Arctic island.
Recording Evil,' a landmark documentary project exposing the largest spy operation in WWII, is based on declassified British ...
A survivor brings a candle to the Death Wall at the Auschwitz-Birkenau former Nazi German concentration and extermination ...
Suzanne Cohen, a retired English teacher in Greenwich, New York, grew up hearing stories about the store from her father, Walter Klaus Cohen, whose uncle owned it before World War II. Cohen’s ...
A Holocaust survivor, who was aged 10 when the Nazis closed his Jewish school in Germany and deported ... been able to escape to the UK days before World War Two broke out. His younger brother ...
After over fifteen months, the war in Palestine has finally reached at least an initial pause — hopefully followed by a ...
With antisemitism, intolerance and denialism on the rise, we must remember the victims – and the dangers of nationalism and ...
Nazi German forces murdered some 1.1 million people at the site in southern Poland, which was under German occupation during ...
In 1865, in the wake of the Civil War, the U.S. began looking to expand its influence on the world stage. This happened at ...
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The 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz was widely acknowledged Monday as the last major observance that any ...