The last days of the Second World War were incredibly chaotic. To nearly every German soldier it became clear the war had ...

On December 26, 1952, Boxing Day, 7 convicted Dutch Waffen-SS soldiers and war criminals managed to escape from a Dutch ...

In 2007, Dr Rebecca Erbelding, an archivist at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington DC, was sent an ...

Eight hundred boys, Hungarian Jews aged between 13 and 17, were marched in driving rain from Block 11 at Auschwitz-Birkenau ...

When Brian Stonehouse, a British spy posing as an artist, was freed from the concentration camp, he made drawings to document ...

Venezuela has begun releasing a number of high-profile prisoners, including opposition politicians, in what its government has called a gesture “to seek peace” less than a week after the US operation ...

Looking Back at 2025: PhillyVoice is revisiting notable stories from this year and looking ahead to how they could continue to develop next year: Trump puts Penn in crosshairs Era ends for Wanamaker ...

A year after former President Joe Biden spared 37 prisoners on federal death row from execution by reducing their sentences to life in prison, the Trump administration is making good on its promise to ...

A day after being released in a US-brokered deal with Minsk, several Belarusian political prisoners who spent more than four years behind bars said they had no regrets for standing up to authoritarian ...

Pope Leo XIV on Sunday presided over the final major celebration of the holy year, calling for renewed commitment to justice, rehabilitation, and hope as he celebrated a jubilee Mass dedicated to ...

VILNIUS, Lithuania (AP) — Belarusian authorities on Saturday freed Nobel Peace Prize laureate Ales Bialiatski, key opposition figure Maria Kolesnikova and other prominent political prisoners, a human ...

Nobel Peace Prize winner Ales Bialiatski was among the prisoners released. The Belarusian government announced Saturday that it has released 123 people, including foreigners, a Nobel Prize winner and ...