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 ...

Documents the as-yet-untold World War II story of young Jewish men who escaped certain ... the film chronicles the journey from Nazi victim to refugee and, finally, to Allied soldier.

Allied troops moved across Europe and closed in on Germany, encountering thousands of concentration camp prisoners, many clinging to life because of the horrific treatment and conditions they endured.

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 ...

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 ...

“Hardly anyone is aware that Ernst Leitz II, a Christian and committed democrat, used the family’s company as a gateway to help persecuted Jews escape Germany in World War II,” said Webber ...

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 ...

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 ...