"People not only served but they were willing to lay down their lives so we can enjoy our daily freedoms," says one mother using the memorial as a teaching opportunity for her homeschooled son.

An international panel led by Swiss Professor Jean-Francois Bergier on Friday publishes its report on Swiss refugee policy during World War II. The report is likely to criticise Switzerland for ...

Dad came back stateside on a hospital ship, which he referred as the ship of horrors, with hundreds of wounded men. The ...

Crew of the “Heaven Can Wait” bomber in Papua New Guinea. 2nd Lt. Thomas V. Kelly Jr. is the middle figure in the back row, ...

The “Shoes on the Danube Promenade,” pictured here, is a memorial to the Hungarian Jews who, in the winter of 1944-1945, were ...

During World War II, it was used as an internment camp, holding Japanese, Germans and Italians from Latin America. About ...

Timeless Patriotism: Guam and World War II is available to stream on pbs.org ... When they were building the runway, our family, my father and his brothers were forced into labor to construct ...

Bob Hope's World War II storyline began on his way back to the United States, following a family visit to his old home in Eltham, England. There, Hope introduced relatives to his new wife ...

Eighty years on, few people are alive who remember World War II. Anne Frank would have turned ... restrictive earlier policies toward Jewish refugees. And Hiroshima warned against the potential ...

TUCSON, AZ (AZFamily) — The largest World War II water bomber is completing its slow but steady trek across Arizona before going to its final resting place. The Philippine Mars, also known as ...

The show opens on May 9, the day after the end of World War II in Europe will be commemorated there. The exhibits, including Neidlinger’s family artefacts, are intended to trigger a discussion ...

Eighty years after World War II ended, he is sounding a warning against ... He was born in Vienna, the capital of Austria. His Jewish family decided to emigrate in 1940, after the country was ...