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 Balkan state is the only Nazi-occupied territory whose Jewish population increased during World War II, thanks to the bravery of ordinary families who harboured thousands of refugees fleeing ...

First came refugees from the Spanish Civil War, then the Jews, especially children, in World War II. When the Nazis took ... the Nations” for their role during the Holocaust, a supreme honor ...

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 family was able to secure visas and fled to the Chinese city of Shanghai, which took in more than 20,000 Jewish refugees during World War II. There, Girone took up knitting, a hobby that ...

Born January 1, 1900, in rural Japan, Chiune Sugihara lived during ... As World War II escalated in Europe, Sugihara wrote visas, unauthorized by his foreign ministry, permitting Jewish refugees ...

During World War II, he took charge of raising and training ... Love, Trude, Jacquy Shanghai was an important safe-haven for Jewish refugees during the Holocaust because it was one of the few ...

It wanted to correct the widely held but inaccurate notion that the Jews of Eastern Europe surrendered meekly to the Nazis ...

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 ...

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 ...