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טאקר קרלסון פורש מ פוקס ניוז תמונה מ 2019

‘Who cares?’: Tucker Carlson questions why Britain fought Hitler

Controversial media personality questions why Britain fought Nazi Germany, casting Hitler’s invasion of Poland as a territorial dispute and saying Britain ‘destroyed their empire and their country’ in a war it still defends

ynet | 10.03.26

ילדים ניצולי אושוויץ ביום שחרור המחנה בידי הצבא האדום, 1945

‘It was in every newspaper’: Britain knew of Holocaust mass murder by 1942

New exhibition draws on newspapers, BBC broadcasts, testimony and government archives to show how reports of the murder of European Jews reached Britain during the war, while also examining limits on refugees, rescue efforts and wartime antisemitism

ynet | 09.28.26

מטוס Aloha Airlines לאחר שחלק גדול מגג תא הנוסעים נתלש באוויר, 1988

Dead engines and planes that flew themselves: 10 aviation stories so bizarre they sound fake

A plane lost much of its roof in midair, a captain was sucked through his windshield and survived, four engines died one after another and passengers watched live TV coverage of their own emergency landing: 10 extraordinary moments from aviation history

Roy Elman | 09.20.26

אירופה פצצה מלחמת העולם השנייה נוטרלה ב פרנקפורט גרמניה 2017

Europe’s wildfires are awakening bombs left from two World Wars

Firefighters in France, Belgium, Germany and the Netherlands face a growing threat from unexploded bombs, shells and mines as drought, heat and wildfires expose and sometimes detonate munitions buried for decades

Associated Press | 08.23.26

‘Britain is no longer the same country’: 102-year-old Jewish veteran warns of antisemitism

Monty Goldstein, who served in the British army during World War II, says Jews again fear walking the streets more than 80 years after he fought for his country; ‘What have I done to deserve it?’ he told PA

Itamar Eichner | 08.03.26

Colonel, cannibal, CIA spook: a Japanese war criminal's second act

Before vanishing in Laos, Masanobu Tsuji helped engineer Japan’s stunning conquest of Malaya and Singapore, fled Allied war-crimes prosecutors, rewrote his own legend in best-selling books and won a seat in parliament

Liran Friedmann | 06.30.26

‘My grandmother said we had no Nazi ties. A blatant lie’: Files expose German family secrets

Newly accessible US archive records have sent hundreds of thousands of Germans searching for relatives in Nazi Party files, while new research reveals how children and teens took part in antisemitic violence, harassment and denunciations

Zeev Avrahami | 05.27.26

‘We are all Jews’: the American POW who defied the Nazis to save his Jewish comrades

Captured in the Battle of the Bulge, Master Sgt. Roderick 'Roddie' Edmonds risked execution to protect Jewish POWs, later becoming the only American serviceman recognized by Yad Vashem as Righteous Among the Nations

Liran Friedmann | 05.25.26

סטנלי פישר (משמאל) עם מרווין קארש בשנה שעברה

Stanley Fisher, British Jewish WWII veteran who helped liberate Bergen-Belsen, dies at 101

Fisher, a Jewish soldier in the British Army, took part in the Normandy invasion and was later posted to Germany; for years, he kept silent about the horrors he witnessed

Itamar Eichner | 04.30.26

Holocaust survivors, 87 and 94, make aliyah: 'Antisemitism frightens me more than sirens'

Penina Zeitchik and Helen Charash, who fled the Nazis as children, fulfilled a lifelong dream by immigrating from the United States to Israel, saying the security situation did not deter them: 'I feel safe — everything pales in comparison'

Yogev Israeli | 04.14.26

Jewish-American WWII hero Theodor Bachenheimer immortalized in rare comic book

Daring Jewish-American soldier Theodor Bachenheimer repeatedly posed as a German to evade capture before being killed in 1944; a year later, his story lived on in Real Life Comics, now revealed for Holocaust Remembrance Day

Gilad Cohen | 04.13.26

The Jewish lover of Benito Mussolini

Margherita Sarfatti, a Jewish art critic and writer, played a key role in shaping Benito Mussolini’s ideology and rise to power — before being cast aside under fascist racial laws and forced into exile

Amir Kaminer | 04.01.26

הפושע הנאצי הרברטס צוקורס בתמונה שצולמה בברזיל

How Mossad hunted ‘the Butcher of Riga’: Nazi war criminal found dead in a crate in Uruguay

Herberts Cukurs, a Latvian pilot who helped murder tens of thousands of Jews during the Holocaust, fled to South America after World War II; Nearly 20 years later, a Mossad team lured him to Uruguay and carried out an assassination

Oded Kramer, Itzik Shasho | 03.14.26

Air raid sirens and women’s voices: why Virginia Woolf’s essay still resonates in wartime Israel

Virginia Woolf wrote ‘Thoughts on Peace in an Air Raid’ during the London Blitz less than a year before her death — an essay centering women excluded from war decisions, strikingly relevant today, yet far from pacifist

Bacol Serlui | 03.12.26

Russia to mark ‘Soviet genocide’ by Nazis, Holocaust not mentioned

President Vladimir Putin signed a law designating April 19 as a memorial day for victims of the so-called Soviet genocide, a move critics say blurs the Holocaust and ignores the unique genocide of the Jewish people

Itamar Eichner | 01.05.26

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