In 1940, France was not supposed to fall so quickly. It had a powerful army, strong allies, and defenses many believed could ...

In 1940, the image of a united and active French Resistance was still far from reality because defeat, occupation, and political division had left much of France stunned and hesitant. The Germans ...

The Stations of the Cross” drawings are a stark black and white. Nonetheless, it’s clear that Matisse threw himself into the ...

Half a century after Gaumont delivered France's first film on Nazi collaboration with Louis Malle's “Lacombe Lucien,” the ...

UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer statements suggesting that a confrontation with Iran is not Britain’s concern, raise serious ...

As World War II raged in Europe, Friedrich Torberg, an Austrian Jew who fled for the United States in 1940, imagined what was ...

In 1945, an angry mob confronted Aba Mizreh and four of his sons outside their former home in Paris. The Jewish family had ...

Much has been written about the fact that Spain adheres to CET, rather than being on Greenwich Mean Time, the same zone as the United Kingdom and Portugal. It's widely believed to be the result of a ...

The rarely seen “Angelus Novus” by Paul Klee was supposed to arrive at New York’s Jewish Museum, but remains in Israel instead.

Until the mid-20th century, correctional facilities run by the French prison administration held minors accused of theft or ...

The B’nai B’rith World Center-Jerusalem and Keren Kayemeth LeIsrael (KKL-JNF) will hold on Tuesday, April 14, for the 24th consecutive year, a joint Holocaust commemoration ceremony on Holocaust ...

A former Woonsocket church houses North America's largest fresco collection by one artist, rivaling Michelangelo's masterpiece in the Vatican.