PARIS (AP) — France is honoring four people who resisted the Nazis during World War II by inducting them into Paris’ Pantheon mausoleum, in a rare and highly symbolic ceremony aimed at uniting the ...

In early 1941 in Nazi-occupied France, a German officer stopped a 17-year-old girl and her ailing grandfather. She explained that they were taking the train to see family in their home village near ...

Odile de Vasselot, aged 99: she was spurred to action by de Gaulle’s radio broadcasts from London - THOMAS SAMSON/AFP Odile de Vasselot, who has died aged 103, served in the French Resistance during ...

French World War II Resistance member Odette Niles photographed in Drancy near Paris on January 24 this year - Copyright AFP ALAIN JOCARD French World War II ...

Join the Program in Judaic Studies and the Center for Collaborative History to hear Renée Poznanski discuss her book, recently published in an English translation, Propaganda and Persecution: The ...

Visitors look at the Nazi propaganda poster of Missak Manouchian and his Resistance network, exhibited at the Shoah memorial, Tuesday, Feb. 20, 2024, in Paris. (AP Photo/Michel Euler) PARIS (AFP) — A ...

Aug. 25 (UPI) --On this date in history: In 1609, Galileo Galilei exhibited his first telescope in Venice. In 1718, the city of New Orleans was founded. In 1875, Matthew Webb, a 27-year-old British ...