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History Today: How Germany’s surrender brought World War II to an end
Great Britain, the United States, and other Allied nations celebrated Victory in Europe Day as World War II came to an end in ...
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Rena Quint, the girl who survived the Nazi concentration camps alone: ‘Wherever you went, you saw and smelled death’
At 89, from her home in Jerusalem, she tells her story in order to preserve the memory of the Shoah. According to a recent ...
Neoclassical darling Hania Rani's music is anything but 'soothing'
The Polish musician talks about the power of instrumental music in connecting listeners 'beyond politics or belief'.
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These Irreplaceable Yiddish Artifacts Would Have Been Lost to History If They Weren't Evacuated to New York After World War II
One Tuesday evening in the spring of 1925, some 30 Jewish scholars and activists met in the Eastern European city of Vilna to ...
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Climate Change, Frankenstein’s Monster and the HEP HEP Riots of 1819 (Part 2)
*Dedicated to the memory of Elchanan Kalmanson, 42 years of age and a father of five from the Judean Hills community of ...
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The Holocaust and Inherited Memory: How we Remember in the 21st Century
Oliver Sears explores Holocaust memorialisation through the prism of his own remarkable and tragic family history. How best, ...
Poland once threw its doors open to millions of Ukrainian refugees, but the mood has shifted
As Poland gears up for the May 18 presidential election, a striking political shift is taking shape: The once-unifying cause ...
A museum opens at a former factory in the Czech Republic where Oskar Schindler saved 1,200 Jews
A dilapidated industrial site in the Czech Republic where German businessman Oskar Schindler saved 1,200 Jews during the ...
Why Poland Wants All of Europe to Do More to Defend Itself
Shaken by Trump, Putin and the war in Ukraine, Poland is again feeling angst about being abandoned by the United States.
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The Daring Polish Resistance Fighter Who Volunteered to Be Sent to Auschwitz So He Could Sabotage the Nazi Death Camp From the Inside
These pleas went unheeded, too. Polish resistance members captured by the Nazis during the 1943 Warsaw Ghetto Uprising Public domain via Wikimedia Commons The Allied authorities failed to take ...