The Telegraph reports: Nicholas Winton rescued hundreds of young Jews from the Nazis and is a nominee for the Nobel Peace Prize. We meet some of the children he saved The birthday party will be modest and understated, in keeping with the man. Sir Nicholas Winton is 104 tomorrow and naturally some of his children will be there to wish [...]
Seattle times report: A review of the documentary “No Place on Earth,” which chronicles the remarkable story of 38 Ukrainian Jews who lived in an underground cave for 18 months during World War II. “I went to the Ukraine to find my family’s story, and I found someone else’s,” says caving enthusiast Chris Nicola in “No Place on Earth,” with [...]
Eva Schloss was 23 years old when her mother Fritzi married Otto Frank, making her the posthumous stepsister to Anne Frank, who had died eight years earlier in a concentration camp. Like the Frank family, Eva and her family were discovered hiding in Amsterdam, arrested by Nazi soldiers and sent to a concentration camp when Eva was just 15. Eva [...]
On 19 April 1943, a train carrying 1,631 Jews set off from a Nazi detention camp in Belgium for the gas chambers of Auschwitz. But resistance fighters stopped the train. One boy who jumped to freedom that night retains vivid memories, 70 years later.In February 1943, 11-year-old Simon Gronowski was sitting down for breakfast with his mother and sister in [...]
Rawstory.com reports: Amsterdam council has vowed to probe revelations that it forced Jews returning from World War II concentration camps to pay rent arrears, even if their homes had been destroyed or occupied by Nazis. The scandal, involving an unknown number of Jews and non-Jews living in city-owned properties, was uncovered by a young art history student in Amsterdam’s archives. [...]
Eva Schloss talks movingly about surviving Auschwitz, the constant presence of her stepsister’s ghost – and why she knows Anne Frank would have loved Justin Bieber Auschwitz endowed Eva Schloss with an abiding sense of proportion. The stepsister of Anne Frank greets with bemusement the latest outbreak of synthetic outrage on the internet, this time over a comment made by [...]
By DAILY MAIL REPORTER A large proportion of Polish schoolchildren are openly anti-Semitic, a shocking new survey suggests today. The study, carried out at schools across the capital Warsaw, showed more than 60 per cent of those asked would be ‘unhappy’ if they discovered their boyfriend or girlfriend was Jewish. The poll was commissioned by the city’s Jewish leaders to mark this [...]
MPs adopted a resolution that described the insurgency as “a heroic armed attempt to counter the [Nazi] plans for the the final liquidation of the ghetto,” as cited by the Polish Press Agency (PAP). “It was the first armed rebellion to be held in a city in German-occupied Europe,” the resolution stressed. The Nazis had established the Warsaw ghetto in [...]
The United States and Great Britain convened a wartime conference in Bermuda in 1943, supposedly to deal with the issue of Nazi persecution of the Jews and wartime refugees. The real reason the conference was called, however, was to dampen growing public outcries for the rescue of European Jewry during World War Two [1939-1945] without actually having to find any [...]
On this point, Sam Stermer and Sima Dodyk are clear: they have nothing but warm feelings for the lightless caves their families squatted in for years. Burrowing was a way to evade the German soldiers descending on their Ukrainian town on the hunt for Jews like them. Underground, Stermer and Dodyk, children at the time, barely knew there was a [...]
Hell’s Angels Veteran flys againMay 23, 2013
Huntington State Office Building Will Be Renamed for Rosie the RivetersMay 22, 2013
‘I never knew people could love an old man so much’: WWII vet, 91, ‘saved from daughter’s eviction’ after $138,000 raised onlineMay 22, 2013
Bomber Command veterans boycotting ‘insulting’ awardMay 22, 2013
Countdown to raising the Dornier commencesMay 22, 2013
When wartime appearances were deceiving by designMay 22, 2013
American fighter still hidden under North Wales beachMay 22, 2013
What to Bring to a War: A Packing List for WWII Army NursesMay 22, 2013
Drunkenness, jeep accidents, sexual assault – The Dark Side of LiberationMay 22, 2013
Dame Judi Dench launches £1.5m campaign for maintenance of Bomber Command MemorialMay 22, 2013
Obituaries Brigadier-General Zdenek Skarvada: Spitfire pilot who later underwent forced labourMay 22, 2013
Russia to Scrap World’s Biggest Nuclear SubsMay 22, 2013
Raising a World War II Bomber From the English ChannelMay 22, 2013
New Interactive Timeline and Map Allows You to Explore the History of World War IMay 22, 2013
87 shipwrecks, most from WWII, could leak oil near US, but no ‘ticking time bombs’May 22, 2013
Cold War cartography: Mapping where Soviets could – and could not – go in 1950′s AmericaMay 21, 2013
New monument honors ‘overlooked’ WWII aviators killed in training at Columbia baseMay 21, 2013
P-38 Lightning Crash Site at Siar IslandMay 21, 2013
WWI German submarine has underwater Lake Michigan graveMay 21, 2013
Billionaire Paul Allen gets V-2 rocket for aviation museum near SeattleMay 21, 2013