Many Jewish scientists who fled Nazi Germany would work on the Manhattan Project. They knew how important it was to beat Hitler to getting nuclear bombs first.
Behind the Nazis' wartime successes lay the well-developed and innovative German automotive and aircraft industries, with their many Jewish inventors, engineers, and entrepreneurs.
There were people in every country who risked their lives and the lives of their families to act righteously and protect the Jews.
She was just 22-years-old and working as a secretary when she was recruited to join this top-secret team.
The bombing was the first-ever use of nuclear weapons in war and was followed three days later by a second nuclear bomb on Nagasaki.
In 1995, Barancik was part of a delegation of former Monuments Men who traveled to Washington, D.C., to receive the nation’s highest civilian honor, the Congressional Gold Medal.
The unexploded bomb was discovered by construction workers working on utilities groundworks on July 7.
The Chaim Herzog Museum of the Jewish Soldier in World War II in Latrun highlights one-and-a-half-million Jews who fought in World War II.
Poland has become one of Ukraine's staunchest allies since Russia invaded in 2022, but ties between the neighbors have been strained for generations by the Volhynia killings in 1943-45.
Leon Gautier was one of 177 French green berets who stormed the Normandy beaches defended by Hitler's forces in 1944.