A controversial memoir of a Finnish woman who migrated to Stalin’s Soviet Russia in the 1930s and escaped in 1941. Ninety ...

Brutal Reality of Eastern Front Exposed by Lost German Diaries' On 22 June 1941, Hitler's Germany launched 'Operation Barbarossa', the attack of the Soviet Union, the largest invasion in military ...

On Jan. 27, some of us paused to remember the date as International Holocaust Remembrance Day, the day the Soviet Red Army liberated the Auschwitz concentration camp in 1945. Across ...

On Jan. 27, 1945, ten thousand Allied POWs stepped off from Stalag Luft III in Żagań as the Nazi regime began forcibly ...

An extraordinary document leads Hakob Melkonyan to undertake the journey of a lifetime: After receiving his grandfather’s World War 2 diary, the Armenian filmmaker decides to follow in the footsteps ...

The need for a homeland where Jews could protect themselves was another factor in establishing the Jewish state. After personally experiencing antisemitism, Theodore Herzl, the founder of modern polit ...

It is through these diaries that director ... “A Non-Fictional War.” Ramer herself was born in Kazakhstan, formerly part of the Soviet Union, but moved to Ukraine when she was only a year ...

AT THE end of 1941, the German Luftwaffe were on the back foot. The Americans had joined WW2 after the attack on Pearl ...

The Kremlin said in December that it had invited 'many countries' to attend the 80th anniversary of the end of the war, which ...

They were eventually discovered in 1944 and sent to concentration camps, including Auschwitz-Birkenau, which was liberated by Soviet troops 80 ... After the war, he published his 15-year-old ...