A top Democratic fundraiser in Michigan is taking heat for a social media post in which she honored her grandfather, who ...

In 1941, Jacob Gens was given an unthinkable task: deciding which Jewish people would be turned over to the Germans.

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

About 6 million European Jews and millions of other people, including Poles, Roma, people with disabilities, and LGBTQ+ ...

In the last months of World War II, Lola Kantorowicz tried her best to hide her pregnancy. She succeeded because most of the ...

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

The year is 1944. The second World War is in full swing and around the territories occupied by Nazi Germany, Jews and others ...

Leo and Hertha Mohl chose to live in interesting times, sometimes unintentionally and sometimes through their own making. That’s according to Bob Mohl, who will deliver a presentation about the ...

The Second World War was home to some brutal fighting. Few theaters were quite as grueling as the War in the Pacific, which saw American and Allied forces squaring off with the Imperial Japanese Navy.

As church bells chime and peal the New Year, historians say the looting of more than 150,000 bells during World War II left “a sonic gap” in the landscape. A bell inside the Dom Tower in Utrecht, the ...

Empathy is under attack lately. The all-important ability to see the world through another person’s eyes is now being recast as something corrosive. The argument goes like this: if you’re empathetic, ...

Martin Bormann was one of the highest-ranking members of Nazi Germany. He disappeared during the final days of the Second World War, amidst the Battle of Berlin. What happened to him? In this video ...