Artist Blames Spell-Checker for Misspellings in Norway WWII Monument
Oslo, Norway – The designer of a Norway WWII monument in honor of the country’s resistance fighters blamed the misspellings contained in the said memorial to…
WWII Polish Leader Wladyslaw Sikorski’s Death Void of Foul Play – Inquest
Warsaw, Poland – A five-year Polish investigation into the unexpected death of WWII Polish leader Gen. Wladyslaw Sikorski in 1943 through a plane crash yielded no evidences…
Former Head of M15 – “My Mother’s Pigeons Saved Lives in WWII”
Dame Eliza Manningham Buller, who became head of M15 from 2002 to 2007, is set to tell the story of how her mother trained pigeons…
Bitter Story of Bitter Times: Holocaust Survivor Recalls Winter Months in Nazi Camps
February, 1945 – It would have been the perfect time for 13-year-old Ivor Perl’s bar mitzvah but instead the barely in his teens lad stood under…
Veterans Get Support to Attend Operation Market Garden’s 70th Anniversary
Lloyds staff, Church green East branch, are working at raising £10,000 to send at least 70 WWII veterans of the Parachute Regimental Association’s Redditch branch together with…
Remembering WWII by Remembering Our Veterans
On Veterans Day in 2013, President Barack Obama honored Richard Overton, 107 years-old, at the Tomb of the Unknowns at Arlington National Cemetery. Mr. Owens…
Vienna Philharmonic revokes awards made during Nazi-era
The Vienna Philharmonic orchestra has recently revoked the awards it has given to six leading Nazis during Hitler’s rule. This move was in response to…
Battle of the Bulge Christmas in the Eyes of a WWII Vet
“Christmas never comes around that I don’t think of the Battle of the Bulge.” Sergeant Malcolm “Buck” Marsh Jr. spent Christmas this year surrounded by…
Hitler, the Ghent Altarpiece and the Holy Grail
April 10, 1934 – the night in which one of the 12 panels of Jan van Eyck’s famous Adoration of the Mystic Lamb, more commonly known as…
Dutch Site Faces Legal Action for Selling Holocaust Victims’ Letters, Nazi Mementos
AMSTERDAM – A Dutch-based online selling site is auctioning off letters written by Holocaust victims while imprisoned in concentration camps. The seller, identified through the handle…
WWII and Holocaust are no joke: Committee protests against Kimmel’s anti-Polish ethnic putdowns
The Anti-Bigotry Committee of the Polish American Congress released an official letter in protest to the series of anti-Polish ethnic jokes which was used recently…
Filmmaker Klayman pays tribute to Soviet’s Night Witch in short film
Alison Klayman, one of the “20 Directors to Watch” by New York Times film critics, created “The Night Witch” to pay tribute to a World…