Nathan Baskind was killed in action shortly after D-Day. A year-long investigation found his remains and ensured his reinterment under a Star of David
Eighty years ago, an attorney’s French Jewish grandparents were on the run and on the verge of deportation when the Allied forces liberated Paris
Operation Torch helped topple the Axis powers and Nazi-controlled Vichy regime, but local Jews and Muslims continued to suffer
My father parachuted into France and fought during World War II on a personal mission to defeat Hitler
(JTA) — A far-right race baiter who works as a columnist for a respected weekly British current affairs magazine wrote a piece sympathizing with the Wehrmacht, the unified armed forces of Nazi Germany. In the column by Taki Theodoracopulos, a Greek writer who lives in London and New York, the author asks readers to feel…
Steven Melnikoff, a 96-year-old Jewish veteran of World War II who fought on D-Day with the U.S. 29th Infantry Division, was honored by President Trump and other assembled dignitaries during an event in Paris. Melnikoff, from Cockeysville, Maryland, had previously been honored by President Obama during his 2014 visit to the shores of Omaha Beach….
(Reuters) — World leaders and veterans paid tribute on the 70th anniversary of the World War Two D-Day landings to soldiers who fell in the liberation of Europe from Nazi German rule, as host France sought to use the event to achieve a thaw in the Ukraine crisis. Wreaths, parades and parachute-drops honored history’s largest…
A French Jewish group is helping organize a special commemoration for 149 Jews who died during the U.S. invasion of Normandy 70 years ago. The commemoration is planned for June 8 — two days after the 70th anniversary of D-Day, the first landing by American troops in France — and will feature a collective Kaddish…
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