The story of Schindler's heroism became a novel and a film. But in 1982, author Thomas Keneally told the BBC that this was all thanks to a chance meeting with a luggage salesman.
This is the profound and remarkable story of the 550,000 Jewish Americans who served their country in World War II. These brave men and women fought for their nation and for Jewish people worldwide.
A digitised archive of pre-WW2 documents, books and cultural artefacts showing how members of the Jewish community expressed themselves through art, literature and music, has gone online.
But in 1982, Keneally told the BBC that Oskar Schindler's story was handed to him during a chance ... skills of his Jewish workers, emphasising their importance to the Nazi war machine.
Many might find it difficult to believe that a Muslim-majority country sheltered and saved Jews during World War II; even fewer ... saw a tenfold increase in its Jewish population over the course ...
In a 2014 interview with The Telegraph, Bond said the character was partially inspired by Jewish refugee children he had seen arriving at London’s Reading train station during World War II.
Devoid of daylight and guarded by a six-foot-tall security officer, our class, History of Modern Israel, is Columbia University’s only course on Israel’s founding from a Jewish perspective.
For decades after World War II ... Even during its long abandonment, the cemetery remained important for many who experienced the loneliness of being Jewish in postwar Poland.
MIYAZAKI--A visa issued by an unheralded Japanese diplomat allowing Jewish refugees to escape persecution by the Nazis during World War II has been ... the find on June 2. Chiune Sugihara ...