European researchers found heavy metals, arsenic and other pollutants near the fishing trawler, which was converted into a patrol boat by Germany in the Second World War.
Tag: World War II (1939-45)
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Italy May Get a Leader With Post-Fascist Roots
With the hard-right candidate Giorgia Meloni ahead before Sunday’s election, Italy could get its first leader whose party traces its roots to the wreckage of Fascism.
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Ilse Nathan and Ruth Siegler, Sisters and Survivors Together, Die 11 Days Apart
They stood by each other at Birkenau, married other Holocaust survivors, lived near each other in Alabama and remained close into their 90s.
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Maximilian Lerner, Whose Espionage Skills Helped Win a War, Dies at 98
An Austrian immigrant, he was one of the so-called Ritchie Boys, who were trained at a secret Army intelligence camp to serve in World War II.
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Opening Old Wounds as the Man Who Warned About the Holocaust
In the solo play “Remember This,” David Strathairn portrays Jan Karski, a witness to the Nazi genocide during World War II.