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

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.

Between 1943 and 1946, more than 425,000 German prisoners of war lived and worked across the United States. They arrived expecting brutality, deprivation, and hatred. Instead, they encountered ...

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

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

According to journalist Andrea Pitzer, the mass incarceration of civilians outside of the law is a clear sign ...

IN THE pandemic Yorkshire born writer Bryn Evans read again the mysterious letter, which his wife Jean had found after her father’s passing in 2003. The handwritten letter was inside the cover of a ...

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, ...