In 1941 during World War II, British fighter pilots were losing dogfights because their engines cut out mid-dive. German Messerschmitts had fuel injection systems that gave them a deadly advantage ...

That baby is now retired research scientist Hana Berger Moran who, along with a second infant, emergency room Dr. Mark Olsky, ...

In 1943, hundreds of thousands of German prisoners of war were sent to the United States after the collapse of the Afrika Korps. What they witnessed—industrial scale, agricultural abundance, and ...

Helen Mirren played a Holocaust survivor in the film Woman in Gold, which is heading to a new streaming home this March. Find ...

Few actors have accrued as iconic a filmography as Tom Hanks, who has worked with legendary directors like Steven Spielberg and Robert Zemeckis on some of the greatest movies ever made. Hanks is a two ...

The photos showed "the last moments" of 200 men executed at an Athens shooting range on May 1, 1944, Greece's the culture ...

Sadeqa Johnson (author of both “Yellow Wife” and “The House of Eve”) has quickly become one of my favorite historical fiction writers, and in her new novel “Keeper of Lost ...

Two new books demonstrate how Martha Gellhorn, Janet Flanner, and other reporters took journalism in directions that men could not.

Master Sgt. Roddie Edmonds will posthumously receive the Medal of Honor for shielding more than 200 Jewish Americans in a ...

NPR's Emily Kwong speaks with Sadeqa Johnson about her new novel THE KEEPER OF LOST CHILDREN and discovering the story of mixed-race children who were left in German orphanages following World War II.

Eva Clarke, Hana Berger-Moran, and Mark Olsky are survivors born to survivors. During the Holocaust, their mothers were young Jewish women sent to concentration camps when they were newly pregnant.

KYIV, Ukraine — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy declared Tuesday that Russia has not "broken Ukrainians" nor triumphed in its war, four years after an invasion that has severely tested the ...