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Former South Korean "comfort woman" Lee Yong-soo looks at a statue symbolising "comfort women" at the Seoul Comfort Women Memorial in Seoul, South Korea, June 29, 2021

South Korea court orders Japan to compensate 'comfort women'

A police van sits outside the Shanghai Jewish Refugee Museum in Shanghai, China November 17, 2023

Shanghai's Jewish refugee history takes center stage in new oratorio

Winston Churchill in Tel Aviv, 1921, from the Pritzker Family National Photography Collection at the National Library of Israel

Israel's leaders should learn from Churchill - opinion

DURING HIS visit last month to Yad Vashem, Irish Foreign Minister Micheál Martin said: ‘It is very important we never forget what happened during the Holocaust, or the enduring lessons learned through the darkest period of human history.’

Addressing the Nazi skeleton in Ireland's closet - opinion

Mary Simon speaks after being sworn-in as the first indigenous Governor General of Canada during a ceremony in the Senate chamber in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada July 26, 2021.

Canada apologizes for honor awarded to ex-Nazi soldier in 1987

By REUTERS

Scene on board USS Yorktown (CV-5), during the Battle of Midway, June 1942, shortly after she was hit by three Japanese bombs on 4 June 1942. Dense smoke is from fires in her uptakes, caused by a bomb that punctured them and knocked out her boilers.

American World War 2 veteran’s remains finally identified

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

London World War II underground air raid shelter.

World War 2-era London spy tunnels to become tourist attraction in 2027

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

Albert Einstein

Revealed in a letter: Albert Einstein's secret plan to save Jewish professor from Nazi Germany

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

Speaker of the House of Commons Anthony Rota during Question Period on Parliament Hill in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada September 25, 2023.

Canadian lawmaker apologizes for inviting Nazi to Zelensky address

By DAVID LAZARUS/JTA

People sit along the Marina Bay area in the hazy skyline of Singapore March 4, 2014

Singapore blows up 100 kg. bomb from World War 2

By REUTERS

The US Navy aircraft carrier USS Yorktown (CV-5) at Naval Air Station North Island, San Diego, California (USA), in June 1940, embarking aircraft and vehicles prior to sailing for Hawaii.

World War 2 aircraft carrier wreck photographed for first time

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

THE YOUNG Jack ‘Idel’ Kagan is in the back row of this family photo, with his sister, Nachama, in the front row, along with their cousins. Only three of those in the picture survived.

The miraculous World War 2 escape from Novogrudok Nazi Camp - comment

By ANDREA SAMUELS

US President Joe Biden meets with Chinese President Xi Jinping on the sidelines of the G20 leaders' summit in Bali, Indonesia, November 14, 2022.

China and US should and must achieve peace, coexistence - Xi Jinping

By REUTERS

Andy Samberg poses on the red carpet for the "Chip 'N Dale: Rescue Rangers" premiere in Hollywood, California, U.S., May 18, 2022.

Andy Samberg plays a famous Jewish WW2 photographer in upcoming biopic

By Jackie Hajdenberg/JTA

Bernard Luza

Jewish WW2 resistance fighter's remains finally identified after 80 years

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

German troops advancing past American equipment during the Battle of the Bulge.

Drone-mounted tech reveals unexplored World War II battlefield

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

People waving Nazi swastika flags argue with conservatives during a protest outside the Tampa Convention Center, where Turning Point USA's (TPUSA) Student Action Summit (SAS) is being held, in Tampa, Florida, US July 23, 2022

'I don't believe in Germans:' Satirical news report mocks Holocaust deniers

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

The mushroom cloud of the first test of a hydrogen bomb, "Ivy Mike", as photographed on Enewetak, an atoll in the Pacific Ocean, in 1952, by a member of the United States Air Force's Lookout Mountain.

'Oppenheimer': How Jewish refugees beat the Nazis to the atomic bomb - opinion

By BARBARA SOFER