As part of World War II’s strategy to liberate Italy from the Nazis, the Allies sent an invasion force of 36,000 troops with ...

An expected 140 descendants of Canadian veterans will travel to the Netherlands to commemorate the 80th anniversary of ...

Organizers of the region’s biannual Chapel of Four Chaplains ceremonies, honoring four religious leaders who sacrificed their ...

For others, like Benelux employee Patrick Livémont, the sense of historical duty takes a more individual and private form.

His assertion, made during a visit to Afghanistan, that German soldiers had been deployed ... the seventh of eight children. During World War II, his family fled Soviet troops, settling in a ...

Feb. 3 is the 82nd anniversary of the sinking of the USAT Dorchester in the north Atlantic Ocean by a German U-boat.

Mother Matylda Getter, superior of the Warsaw province of the Congregation of the Franciscan Sisters of the Family of Mary, founded in the mid-19th century, is seen on an undated photo (center) with ...

Escaping the festering hostilities in Germany against Jews in the 1930s, Rudy Pins kissed his father ... German Jews from serving in the U.S. military was changed during World War II, Pins joined ...

Fürst, now 92, is one of a dwindling number of Holocaust survivors able to share first-person accounts of the horrors they endured, as the world marks the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the ...

SS soldiers threw open the doors of the cattle car, where he was crammed in with his mother, father ... yelling in German “get out, get out!” forcing people to jump onto the infamous ramp where Nazi ...

On the way the German soldier ... His father was murdered in Auschwitz, and he was sent with his pregnant mother to the Terezin camp, outside Prague, where 16,000 children were held and only ...

A Holocaust survivor who lived through four concentration camps as a young boy will return to Auschwitz to mark 80 years since the liberation of one of the Nazi's most ...