World War II Archives

22 Jun

Jewish Culture and Traditions - Moment Magazine, Latest

Book Review | Nuance in the Fight between Good and Evil

June 28, 2021
By Eugene L. Meyer
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1939: A People’s History By Frederick Taylor W. W. Norton & Company; 448 pp; $30 Library shelves are full of books whose titles celebrate, commemorate or contemplate a...

27 Sep

Jewish World, Latest

In Hania, Crete—a Town With No Jewish Presence—a Synagogue Thrives

September 27, 2017
By Sherri Moshman Paganos
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During the mid 19th century, the island’s Jewish population reached 900, but after much emigration, by World War II only around 300 Jews were left, all in Hania.

05 Aug

History, Memoir

An Activist Remembers Her Civil Rights Journey

April 28, 2024
By Anna Isaacs
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“I wanted readers to see and feel what it was like to be a child subjected to intensive bombing,” writes Marione Ingram, who as a child survived the Allied bombing of Hamburg, Germany, in 1943.

09 Oct

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How “Anti-Semite” Miklos Horthy Saved the Jews of Budapest

February 2, 2016
By Rachel Gross
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By Eliezer M. Rabinovich In 1944, Hungarian Regent Miklós Horthy saved more Jews than anyone else in the world. Yet today, next to the efforts of heroic...