An American Jewish fighter pilot whose plane was shot down in the Chinese theater during World War II was given a proper ...

Mystic — Officials at Mystic Seaport Museum are assessing possible damage to a boat that helped save the lives of hundreds of Danish Jews during World War II. During routine morning rounds Thursday, ...

Mantello, a Jew born in what is now Romania, was one of a handful of diplomats who during World War II saved thousands of Jews and others on the run from the Nazis by giving them visas or citizenships ...

DNA testing helped identify the body of Lt. Morton Sher, a member of the Flying Tigers, killed in action in 1943 during a ...

(AP) Jewish residents of this northern Greek city on Saturday marked the 70th anniversary of the roundup and deportation of its Jews to Nazi extermination camps during World War II. Several hundred ...

During World War II, thousands of Jews evaded the Nazis in Berlin, moving from place to place and taking refuge wherever they could. They called themselves U-boats, a reference to the German naval ...

This new book, “A Light in the Northern Sea: Denmark’s Incredible Rescue of Their Jewish Citizens During WWII” (Citadel, 272 pgs., $29 hardcover) probably would have been overlooked had it not been ...

Nearly six decades later, Prien is now post World War II Germany's first Jewish federal cabinet member, having been selected as the Minister for Education, Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women and ...

The latter half of the 20th century might be seen as a golden age for American Jews. Although the trauma of the Holocaust was present in people’s minds, the American Jewish community felt relatively ...

The remains of Lt. Morton Sher, identified earlier this year, were buried in Greenville, South Carolina, on Dec. 14, what ...

Berlin — When Karin Prien's mother brought her to Germany as a little girl in the late 1960s, she gave her one urgent warning: "Don't tell anyone you're Jewish." Nearly six decades later, Prien is now ...