George Takei was among the Japanese-Americans detained at camps after Japan’s surprise attack on Pearl Harbor, Dec. 7, 1941.

On Remembrance Sunday Michael Nicholson tells the remarkable story of how he came across a portrait of his father John Nicholson drawn when he was a prisoner during the Second World War ...

Five strangers join together 80 years after WWII, to follow the paths their fathers endured as POWS. Five strangers are brought together about 80 years after WWII, to follow the paths their fathers ...

Håkan Håkansson works at Lund University Library, and headed the digitization of the Ravensbrück Archive in 2014-2022. The digitization was funded by numerous private donations, as well as a number of ...

This documentary from September 20, 2004, focuses on the 4,315 German prisoners of war from World War II who were housed at Camp Ruston in Ruston, Louisiana, from 1943-1946. Camp Ruston is available ...

More than 83 years since the Battle of Bowmanville, the only World War II right on Canadian soil, the historic site is now at risk. As Germain Ma reports, one of its key remnants could be destroyed.

During the lesser-known 1943 Sobibor Uprising, several hundred Jews fled into the forests of Poland, where many were tracked down and shot. Fifty-eight Sobibor inmates survived the war Meilan Solly - ...

Colonists’ loyalties were split during the Revolutionary War, as shown in the Battle of Brandywine. Revolutionary War reenactors recreate the Battle of Brandywine on the grounds of the Chadds Ford ...

Parents need to know that Prisoner of War is a period action thriller set during World War II, where a British RAF soldier (Scott Adkins) must fight in deadly martial arts matches organized by a ...

“As I am now, so you must be. Prepare for death and follow me.” —Tombstone inscription of Thomas Roberts, died March 6, 1818, Black Swamp–area cemetery, southern Hampton County. This column, and ...

What is believed to be the first purpose-built prisoner-of-war camp, dating from the Napoleonic Wars, is now open to the public. The Norman Cross Camp in Yaxley, just south of Peterborough, housed ...