Jewish society as an active protagonist in the story of the Holocaust This history of Jewish Białystok during World War II provides an in-depth analysis of one of the largest Jewish communities to ...

The story of Varian Fry, who helped lead an operation that saved thousands of Jewish artists and ... swung its door shut to most refugees during World War II, a young American in France saved ...

In her latest book, historian Sheila Fitzpatrick tells the story of millions of displaced people and international efforts to ...

Some 20,000 Jewish refugees who fled the Nazis lived in the Tilanqiao area of the city’s Hongkou District. (JTA) — Shanghai is applying to have the neighborhood that sheltered Jewish refugees ...

"I was recently reminded of my great-grandmother, Princess Alice of Battenberg, who lived in Athens during the Second World War," Prince William ... "gave refuge to a Jewish widow, Rachel Cohen ...

MIYAZAKI--A visa issued by an unheralded Japanese diplomat allowing Jewish refugees to escape persecution by the Nazis during World War II has been found. An association to honor Saburo Nei ...

The famed “Japanese Schindler” helped thousands of Jewish refugees escape from Europe during World War II by using his position as a Japanese diplomat to Lithuania to issue “visas for life ...

“Irena’s Vow” is film directed by Louise Archambault, based on the true story of Irena Gut Opdyke, a young Polish woman who saved the lives of several Jews during World War II. The movie ...

She has published several books, most recently “Unexpected Routes Refugee ... Hungary to Jewish parents. He made it to Mexico and lived there until the end of World War II. During the lecture ...

Sara Brenneis and Gina Hermann, professors at Amherst and the University of Oregon, respectively, have collected an extensive, if not always satisfying set of essays from an interdisciplinary ...