As World War II reshaped rural Iowa, German prisoners of war became an essential labor force, and, in some cases, unexpected ...

Today marks International Holocaust Remembrance Day, the 81st anniversary of that liberation. Commemorations are taking place ...

Ilana Kantorowicz Shalem was born in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in March 1945, and is one of the youngest Holocaust ...

About 6 million European Jews and millions of other people, including Poles, Roma, people with disabilities, and LGBTQ+ ...

Transferred late in World War II, Japanese prisoners of war encountered suspicion in southwest Iowa before labor demands ...

Krystyna Sierpińska, known by her wartime nom de guerre “Marzenka”, a participant in the 1944 Warsaw Uprising during the ...

Little Edna’s War will be published on January 27, 2026, International Holocaust Remembrance Day. It tells the extraordinary true story of the youngest decorated soldier in the Polish Home Army, a ...

The Red Rock Historical Society is digitizing documents focused on Camp R -- a former POW internment camp which operated in ...

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"We are all Jews here," Master Sergeant Roddie Edmonds said to a Nazi commandant at a POW camp during World War II.

The late British Prime Minister Winston Churchill once said, “Those that fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it.” As the leader of one of America’s closest allies ...

A new memoir reveals the true story of a Jewish child in the Warsaw Ghetto and the Polish Resistance. This isn't just ...