World War II
Statues fall too in Ukraine, as fascists erase Soviet past
September 11, 2017Ukraine's Communist Party leader Petro Symonenko speaks to Ben Chacko about the wave of historical destruction engulfing his country.
Read moreJapanese American internment commemorated by a new oratorio
February 21, 2017The project was timed to coincide with the 75th anniversary of President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s signing of Executive Order 9066 on February 19, 1942, that resulted in the forced removal and incarceration of around 120,000 Japanese...
Read moreUnionist gets top French medal for heroic World War II service
November 10, 2016Frank Lee, 98, a former lithographer and a member of Graphic Communications Conference/ IBT Local 14 in Philadelphia, and union pension fund administrator, was awarded the French Legion of Honor medal in a solemn ceremony of...
Read moreThis week in history: Nazis invade Soviet Union 75 years ago
June 20, 2016Seventy-five years ago this week, in Operation Barbarossa, German forces suddenly invaded the Soviet Union.
Read moreToday in history: Beethoven’s opera “Fidelio” in Berlin, 1945
September 4, 2015"A political prisoner's wife goes undercover, infiltrates the family of the prison guard and frees her husband from a secret dungeon just as the tyrant is about to kill him."
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