PFC Peter Dudenich of Ambridge and PVT William Patrick Nairn of Aliquippa are among 58 Pennsylvania soldiers who died the morning of Jan. 26, 1944, when their ship struck a Nazi mine being remembered ...

After over fifteen months, the war in Palestine has finally reached at least an initial pause — hopefully followed by a ...

A historian of the Holocaust and curator of the Auschwitz exhibition, now in Toronto, invites all who gather on Jan. 27 to ...

Brookfield, 98, and a longtime resident of Whittier, was born in Chemnitz, Germany, the only child of Willy and Dora Fleischmann. She was 11 in 1936 when she remembers other children in her school ...

West Palm Beach centenarian Franklin Simon, who celebrated his 100th birthday in June, served heroically in Europe during ...

Commemorations are being held Monday to mark the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz death camp by Soviet ...

Italy’s prime minister has addressed growing criticism of the repatriation of a Libyan warlord wanted by the International ...

Holocaust Memorial Day on January 27 marks the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz. The infamous Nazi death camp ...

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