As World War II reshaped rural Iowa, German prisoners of war became an essential labor force, and, in some cases, unexpected ...

Transferred late in World War II, Japanese prisoners of war encountered suspicion in southwest Iowa before labor demands ...

Paddling of the Hawaiian style, where an ama is rigged to a hull with two ʻiako, is now global — and has been for some time.

Today marks International Holocaust Remembrance Day, the 81st anniversary of that liberation. Commemorations are taking place ...

TEL AVIV, Israel — In the last months of World War II, Lola Kantorowicz tried her best to hide her pregnancy. She succeeded ...

Lili Keller-Rosenberg has been sharing her story with young people for more than 40 years. Born into a French Jewish family with Hungarian origins, she was captured in Roubaix when she was 11 years ...

Ilana Kantorowicz Shalem was born in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in March 1945, and is one of the youngest Holocaust ...

Martha Weiman’s parents told her and her brothers to stay in an upstairs bedroom the night of November 9, 1939, so they ...

Janet Flanner, a struggling novelist with an unconventional lifestyle, was one of countless Americans living in 1920s Paris, ...

Niko Medved’s childhood home sits 8.5 miles from Williams Arena. The path to him becoming Gophers men’s basketball coach traces back much farther than that, roughly 4,700 miles to a small village in ...