Historic Budapest synagogue to reopen
The Rumbach Synagogue, built in Moorish Revival style in 1872, is one of Budapest's more prominent synagogues. It will serve ...
Tag: World War II
Poland honors underground group that collaborated with Nazis
Children of resistance members respond to honor for Holy Cross Mountains Brigade, which fought both Germans and Soviets: "Our fathers ...
Lithuanian Jewish sites shut after threats amid WWII debate
Jewish leaders in the Lithuanian capital are indefinitely closing the city's sole synagogue and community center following threats sparked by ...
Jews and Arabs together against the Nazis
For the first three years of World War II, Jews and Arabs fought, ate, trained, were taken prisoner, and killed ...
Last inmate from initial 1940 transport of Poles to Auschwitz dies
The Germans caught Kazimierz Albin in 1940 as he fled occupied Poland to join Polish armed forces abroad. He fled ...
Long lost WWII-era Soviet songs brought to life in Israel
"Yiddish Glory" presents songs by Soviet Jews that describe the horrors of World War II and the Holocaust. "The last ...
Romania finds 'many' more human remains near site of Jewish mass grave
Remains, along with a grenade and 82 mm gun-mortar, found near area where, in 2010, archaeologists discovered a mass grave ...
Israel trying to keep Ukrainian town from turning Holocaust-era mass grave into real estate
Israeli Ambassador to Ukraine Rabbi Joël Lion pleads with mayor of Poltava, Oleksandr Shamota, to preserve the site where Germans ...
Poland honors national soccer player murdered in Holocaust
Jozef Klotz, a Polish Jewish soccer player who scored the national team’s first ever goal in an international match, was ...
Remains of Holocaust victims laid to rest in Belarus
Mass grave was discovered at a building site in the city of Brest earlier this year. Local Jewish community criticizes ...