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Obituary: Frank Ashleigh

Youngest glider pilot who fought at Arnhem during the Second World War

By Martin Sugarman

4 min read

PORTSMOUTH, UNITED KINGDOM - JUNE 04: Former glider pilot Frank Ashleigh, aged 92, stands by a taxi before setting off to the beaches of Normandy with the Taxi Charity for Military Veterans on June 4, 2017 in Portsmouth, England. A convoy of over 90 London taxis organised by the Taxi Charity for Military Veterans left Portsmouth on Sunday carrying veterans of World War II back to the battlegrounds of Normandy, the location of the D-Day landings. The journey to Northern France will be the last large-scale trip organised by the charity, as the number of veterans from the conflict who are able to travel declines. The 73rd anniversary of the D-Day landings which will be commerated on June 6, saw 156,000 troops from the allied countries including the United Kingdom and the United States join forces to launch an audacious attack on the beaches of Normandy and these assaults are credited with aiding the eventual defeat of Nazi Germany. (Photo by Matt Cardy/Getty Images)

circa 1940: French officer Marshal Petain (1856 - 1951). (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

France on Trial review: The Case of Marshal Pétain - Jewish saviour or antisemite?

By Daniel Snowman

2 min read

Austrian town honours Jewish doctor who returned after being expelled during Nazi era

Austrian town honours Jewish doctor who returned after being expelled during Nazi era

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Holocaust survivor and Army veteran receives surprise war medals on 100th birthday

Second World War

Holocaust survivor and Army veteran receives surprise war medals on 100th birthday

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Finland government minister apologises for making Hitler joke

Second World War

Finland government minister apologises for making Hitler joke

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Quest to discover the lost actress of Vilnius who is full of mystery

Quest to discover the lost actress of Vilnius who is full of mystery

By Jenni Frazer

6 min read

Gdańsk. Powrót w przestrzeń publiczną Pomnika Kindertransportów

Polish Kindertransport memorial restored to its Gdansk city centre site

By Daniel Ben-David

1 min read

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Vienna spends £430,000 tilting statue of antisemitic mayor 3.5 degrees instead of ripping it down

The statue daubed with word ‘Shame’ has been a battleground for years

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June 5, 2023 11:12

Vienna spends £430,000 tilting statue of antisemitic mayor 3.5 degrees instead of ripping it down

Obituary: Professor Peter Pulzer

Refugee scholar who analysed how Austrian and German nationalism fostered Nazism

By Geoffrey Alderman

3 min read

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May 25, 2023 08:38

Obituary: Professor Peter Pulzer

Film review: Sisu - Finnish bravery shines through in war thriller

Filmmaker Jalmari Helander mixes thrilling action sequences with nifty Sergio Leon-esque spaghetti western tropes

By Linda Marric

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May 24, 2023 15:10

Film review: Sisu - Finnish bravery shines through in war thriller

Rafael Behr

WWII is slipping away into realm of mythology

The use of the Third Reich to score political points or make glib analogies betrays our past

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May 11, 2023 13:01

The U.S. and the Holocaust,09-01-2023,Nazi Party meeting or rally. Sign in back reads "Kauft nicht bei Juden" - Don't buy from Jews.,National Archives and Record Administration NARA,Unknown

Swiss to put up memorial to Nazi victims at last

European nation will erect a monument to commemorate those who perished under Hitler's regime

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May 11, 2023 12:36

Rhaetische Bahn/RhB - Der Bernina Express entlang des Lago Bianco. Eine Fahrt von den Gletschern zu den Palmen. Rhaetian Railway/RhB - Bernina Express running beside Lake Bianco. Ferrovia retica/FR - Il Bernina Express lungo il Lago Bianco. Un viaggio dai ghiacciai alle palme. Copyright by Rhaetische Bahn By-line: swiss-image.ch/Christoph Benz

Obituary: Benjamin Ferencz

Youngest Nazi war crimes prosecutor who campaigned for international justice

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May 4, 2023 10:28

Former chief prosecutor Benjamin Ferencz addresses guests during the inauguration of the new information and documentation center "Memorial Nuremberg Trials", in Nuremberg, southern Germany, on November 21, 2010. The exhibit is located in the attic above courtroom 600 where 21 top Nazis including Hermann Goering and Rudolf Hess went on trial on November 20, 1945, in full view of the world's, and Germany's, media. The courtroom is still in use but when not, members of the public can still enter, and visitors to the new exhibit can peek through small windows and see where the historic events of 1945-6 unfolded. The German city of Nuremberg was associated like no other with the Nazis. It was here that they created the main race laws against Jews and where their enormous party rallies took place. AFP PHOTO POOL / ARMIN WEIGEL (Photo credit should read ARMIN WEIGEL/AFP via Getty Images)

The true meaning of freedom

The Warsaw ghetto uprising took place on erev Pesach 80 years ago. What did we learn?

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April 17, 2023 13:48

A group of Jewish civilians being held at gunpoint by German SS troops after being forced out of a bunker where they were sheltering during the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising in German-occupied Poland, World War II, 19th April - 16th May 1943. The photograph is from an official report from SS and Police Leader JÃ¼rgen Stroop to SS commander Heinrich Himmler, entitled 'Es gibt keinen jÃ¼dischen Wohnbezirk in Warschau mehr!' ('There is no Jewish Quarter of Warsaw Any more!"). The SS man on the right is SS-RottenfÃ¼hrer Josef BlÃ¶sche, who was executed for war crimes, in East Germany in 1969. (Photo by Keystone/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

My mother was a fantasist. Schindler’s List helped me understand who she really was

Max Friedman, the son of two Holocaust survivors, was reluctant to see Steven Spielberg’s film when it came out in 1993. But when he did, it changed his life

By Karen Glaser

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April 14, 2023 08:58

My mother was a fantasist. Schindler’s List helped me understand who she really was

Jewish Nuremberg prosecutor Ben Ferencz dies at 103

The Havard Law graduate also played a key role in securing $822 million of Holocaust reparations from the West German government

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April 10, 2023 15:54

Jewish Nuremberg prosecutor Ben Ferencz dies at 103

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