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Significant past events, influential figures, and cultural moments that shaped society. Ancient civilizations, wars, social revolutions, historical landmarks, and biographies.

 The family of Private Arthur Gassner.

IDF identifies burial site of soldier missing since 1949

 Hohenzollern castle.

Hohenzollern art dispute settled. German museums to retain works

 Massive cache of Nazi docuemnts found in basement of Argentine Supreme Court.

Massive cache of Nazi docuemnts found in basement of Argentine Supreme Court

 One of the Fairchild Hiller FH-227B aircraft used in the production of the 1993 film "Alive", painted to appear as the aircraft involved in the 1972 crash of Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571.

Daniel Fernández Strauch, survivor of the 1972 Andes plane crash, dies at 79

 Adolf Eichmann, pictured in 1941/1942, in his SS uniform. Eichmann fled to Argentina in 1950 before being captured by the Mossad in 1960.

On this day: Adolf Eichmann captured in Argentina by Mossad

Abba Eban and prime minister David Ben-Gurion visiting US president Harry Truman, 1951.

This week in Jewish history: Truman recognizes Israel, Russia issues May Laws

By Steven Drucker
 Train tracks leading up to main entrance, Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp.

Rediscovered file reveal Auschwitz's 'Angel of Death' comfortable life in Argentina after WWII

An archive picture from Agence Khmere de Presse shows Cambodian people leaving Phnom Penh after Khmer Rouge forces seized and emptied the Cambodian capital on April 17, 1975.

Ghosts of Year Zero: The Khmer Rouge, Phnom Penh and the Killing Fields

 The King David Hotel in Jerusalem, attacked by a bombing by the Irgun in 1946.

The women of the Irgun: The female fighters in the Zionist underground

By FERN ALLEN
 EGYPTIAN PRESIDENT Hosni Mubarak was re-elected in 1999 with 93% of the vote, an election which saw no real opposition.

Nations at 77: A global snapshot of growing pains and triumphs throughout history

In his last official photo, taken approximately two days before his death, German Fuhrer Adolf Hitler leaves the safety of his bunker to award decorations to members of Hitler Youh.

Death of the Führer: Inside Adolf Hitler’s final hours, 80 years on

 From murder to macabre relic: How William Corder's skin became a museum artifact.

From murder to macabre relic: How William Corder's skin became a museum artifact

 THE ‘TITANIC,’ 1912, prior to the calamity.

'Prophetic' letter written aboard the Titanic fetches nearly $400,000 USD at auction

The plaque honoring Oskar Schindler in the Mount Zion Franciscan Cemetery, Jerusalem. (Limmud FSU)

On this day: Oskar Schindler's birth 117 years ago, and the legacy that lives on today

 JEWISH WEDDING in a Russian shtetl, complete with klezmer band; painting by Isaak Asknaziy, 1893.

'Sons and Daughters': The last great Yiddish novel now available in English

By GLENN C. ALTSCHULER
 ITALIAN DICTATOR Benito Mussolini surveys the new Caselle Airport during a visit to Turin, May 1939.

Mussolini's Jews: How Il Duce bewitched Italy's Jewish communities

Ze’ev Jabotinsky, founder of Revisionist Zionism

This week in Jewish history: Liberating Dachau, fall of Jericho, birth of revisionist Zionism

By Steven Drucker
 Jerusalen, Israel, 04-15-2019: Photographs of missing children victims of the Holocaust perpetrated by the Nazis against the Jews at the Holocaust History Museum

Jews will never forget the Holocaust, even if the world has

Yom HaShoa: There are only 220,800 Holocaust survivors left in the world according to recent surveys.

Holocaust Survivor Rena Quint keeps memory of victims alive by sharing her story

 A cloud is seen over Hiroshima made by the firestorm formed following the dropping of the Little Boy atomic bomb on the Japanese city in what is the first use of nuclear weapons in war, on August 6, 1945.

This week in Jewish history: Atomic bombs and Masada under siege

By Steven Drucker
 Harriet Cohen, circa 1920.

A love supreme: The great love affair of Harriet Cohen and Arnold Bax

By BARRY BORMAN
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