D-day anniversary
Jewish D-Day veteran buried in a Nazi mass grave to receive a proper burial
The group had never before uncovered a Jewish American who had been buried with the very Nazis he was fighting.
World leaders, veterans, commemorate D-Day's 80th anniversary in Normandy
How D-Day saved Europe, and my family, from the Nazis
France's last surviving D-Day commando dies aged 100
French-born Chabad rabbi ‘stuck’ in Israel by IDF for not enlisting
He was detained when he asked to leave the country at the end of a vacation in August with his wife and daughter. The case was publicized by Kol Barama radio journalist Mendi Rizel.
Americans didn’t die for France to become antisemitic
There is a darker side, a shameful history of antisemitism, especially during the Second World War when the French sent 80,000 Jews to their deaths at Auschwitz.
Leaping into D-Day: A paratrooper's tale
Honoring the heroic paratroopers of World War II – with a commemorative 75th-anniversary jump.
75 years from that long day in Normandy – we still have something to learn
The campaign has produced hundreds of history books and many films, but it has not yet been researched and told in full.
‘How D-Day spoiled my tea’ – and other first-hand war memories
“I was just a soldier. Being Jewish didn’t cross my mind and therefore it didn’t cross anybody else’s mind.” Lola adds, “Everyone knew we were Jewish. They weren’t antisemitic in those days.
Trump, Macron honor D-Day veterans who fought through "fires of hell"
U.S. President Donald Trump and British Prime Minister Theresa May joined Macron at separate ceremonies along a 80km (50 mile) stretch of Normandy coastline.
75 years later: How many Jews fought in D-Day?
Over 4,000 of the soldiers who landed on the Normandy beaches to fight in D-Day were Jewish,” said Walter Bingham, a Germany-born veteran who fought with the British Army in the Normandy landings.
Restored D-Day plane to make first flight on 75th anniversary
In December, Mikey McBryan acquired an old DC-3 plane that had been flown in the D-Day invasion. Since then, he and his crew have been restoring the aircraft piece by piece.
75th D-Day anniversary: A Jewish perspective
In June 1940, that same stretch of water had seen “Operation Dynamo,” the evacuation of 338,226 British and French soldiers from the beaches of Dunkirk, cut off and surrounded by German troops.
Paris to Normandy via Nellie
As we mark the 75th anniversary of D-Day on June 6, the ‘Magazine’ tools around the region where so much history happened.
