For far too many around the world, when one mentions World War II and the Jews, the sole focus of their thinking and conversation is logically centered on the horrific Shoah and the loss of the Six ...

May 9 was V-Day for the generation that grew up in the Soviet Union. It’s a day later than for the USSR’s former Western allies since the Soviet government wanted to underscore the fact that Prague ...

A mistake finally corrected after more than 80 years for two WWII Jewish American soldiers Link Copied! The non-profit Operation Benjamin, which works with the American Battle Monuments Commission, ...

Only three Jewish World War II soldiers received a Congressional Medal of Honor and one of them is from Michigan. Jolie is your community reporter for Pontiac, Waterford Township, West Bloomfield ...

FLORENCE, Italy — Dozens of people gathered at a recent ceremony at the Florence American Cemetery, to honor a fallen World War II soldier whose faith was recognized more than 80 years later. The May ...

War forces impossible choices, and few are as paradoxical as Jewish soldiers in Hitler’s army. Torn between ancestry and duty, they navigated a world where loyalty, identity, and survival constantly ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Army Master Sgt. Roddie Edmonds will be posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor. Roddie Edmonds never spoke about his time in a ...

JERUSALEM (AP) — As a proud patriot, Brooklyn-born Dan Nadel enlisted in the U.S. army right after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. But there was another force driving him to battle — his Jewish ...

When Samantha Baskind was a child, her father would sometimes talk about her great-uncle Nathan Baskind from Pittsburgh. “‘Your Uncle Nate was a great Jewish-American war hero,’” she said he would ...