WwII Archives

Hannah Elias, granddaughter of Anne Frank's cousin Buddy Frank, said young people can 'get to know what it means to be in hiding'

World

Anne Frank annex replica opens Holocaust story to new generation

A replica of the annex where Jewish schoolgirl Anne Frank and her family hid from the Nazis will open in New York next week,...

AFPJanuary 24, 2025

Traditionally attired women carry a Greek flag on Acropolis hill during the liberation commemoration

World

Buried Nazi past haunts Athens on liberation anniversary

A brass sculpture of a naked man being garrotted, a monument evoking prison bars and a sign are the only hints this sleepy central...

AFPOctober 12, 2024

Japan is marking the 75th anniversaries of the atomic bomb attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki

World

‘Unspeakable horror’: the attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki

The Nobel Peace Prize was awarded Friday to Nihon Hidankyo, a Japanese group of atomic bomb survivors.

AFPOctober 11, 2024

The 80th anniversary of Operation Market Garden culminated this week with a series of commemorative events

World

Allies to remember failed WWII parachute operation

Veterans and royals gather this weekend to mark the 80th anniversary of one of World War II’s greatest Allied debacles: an unprecedented but failed...

AFPSeptember 19, 2024

Six young pallbearers in military uniform brought the servicemen to their final place of rest

World

Allied war heroes buried in Netherlands… 80 years on

With full military honours and proud family members looking on, two Allied servicemen were laid to rest Wednesday, 80 years after giving their lives...

AFPSeptember 18, 2024

The wrecks have long frustrated navigators plying the Danube in the summer months, when water levels drop

World

Serbia tackles sunken Nazi fleet in the Danube

A Serbian operation to clear a fleet of sunken Nazi warships from the Danube will bring relief to vessels struggling to navigate the waters,...

AFPSeptember 6, 2024

President Andrzej Duda lays a wreath at the monument in memory of victims of the Nazi bombing on September 1, 1939

World

Poland marks 85 years since WWII outbreak

Nearly six million Poles died in the conflict that killed more than 50 million people overall, including the six million Jews.

AFPSeptember 1, 2024

Operation Dragoon 'succeeded beyond the wildest dreams of its advocates'

World

The other D-Day: France remembers WWII Provence landings

France on Thursday remembers the 1944 Allied landings in Provence, an event overshadowed by the Normandy landings two months earlier, but still key to...

AFPAugust 14, 2024