Described as a counterpart to Anne Frank’s diary, a journal written by Renia Spiegel, a Jewish girl who lived in Poland during World War II, is being published in English.
Tag: World War II (1939-45)
A Filmmaker Explored Japan’s Wartime Enslavement of Women. Now He’s Being Sued.
A documentary concludes that conservatives who deny the sexual enslavement of “comfort women” are “revisionists.” Conservatives interviewed in the film say they were defamed.
Jan Ruff-O’Herne, Who Told of Wartime Rape by the Japanese, Dies at 96
As many as 200,000 “comfort women” were treated as the Imperial Army’s sex slaves. She was the first European to speak up about it — 50 years later.
In Poland, Where History Is a Weapon, Leaders Commemorate World War II
World leaders gathered in Poland for the 80th anniversary of the outbreak of the deadliest conflict in human history.
‘First’ Porsche Heads to Auction, and a Record Price Is Expected
Of the three Type 64s planned for construction in the late 1930s in Nazi Germany, just one remains.
The Exhibit Lauded Freedom of Expression. It Was Silenced.
A political battle between Japan and South Korea has spilled into the art world, with the abrupt closing of an exhibit with a statue symbolizing women forced into sexual slavery.
Reading My Grandfather’s Accounts of World War II, 75 Years Later
My grandfather died well before I was born, but his journal felt like a window into a man I had only heard about in passing.
Dutch Railway Will Pay Millions to Holocaust Survivors
The company had set up special trains on behalf of the Nazis to carry Jews and other victims to transit points for deportation to death camps.
The Holocaust Survivor Who Deciphered Nazi Doublespeak
The personal papers of one of World War II’s earliest historians reveal an obsession with how Nazis distorted the German language.
U.K. Tribute to ‘Windrush’ Generation Draws Criticism
Events to honor the people invited from the Caribbean to help rebuild postwar Britain were overshadowed by criticism of their treatment under a migration crackdown.