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Second world war

January 2025

  • Kieran Culkin and Jesse Eisenberg.

    ‘Every day is 24 hours of panic to just get out the door’: Jesse Eisenberg on self-indulgence, candid aunts and his Oscar-tipped Holocaust comedy

  • Clive Beadon.

    Medals of second world war pilot who flew 500 miles with plane on fire to be auctioned

  • Children playing on their way home from school, Rhymney, Wales, 1975

    Nostalgic memories of home and a carefree childhood

  • Agnes Keleti, a 91-year-old former Olympic gymnast, performs a split at her house in Herzliya, Israel, Monday, Aug. 13, 2012. Keleti won 10 Olympic medals, including 5 gold medals, while she represented Hungary in the Olympic games of 1948, 1952, and 1956. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)

    Agnes Keleti, oldest living Olympic gold medallist, dies at 103

December 2024

  • Three sisters whose family faces having its history laid bare: (left to right) Jolanda, Connie and Mieke

    Netherlands to open archive on people accused of wartime Nazi collaboration

  • A man wearing glasses and an old Navy cap hits in a wooden chair inside a home

    Warren Upton, oldest survivor of Pearl Harbor attack, dies aged 105

  • Renee Bornstein for Other Lives

    Other lives
    Renee Bornstein obituary

  • Kerry Washington – ‘magnetic’ – and Milauna Jackson in The Six Triple Eight.

    The Six Triple Eight review – true story of heroic black women’s battalion fails to deliver

  • Other lives
    Reginald Ellicott obituary

  • ‘I am hitting a wall’: heir of Jewish art collector calls for restitution from Germany

  • Survivor of Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor dies in California aged 100

  • A Route 66 town was dead. This man resurrected it into ‘a classic desert destination’

  • Court rules former Nazi camp guard, 100, can face trial in Germany

  • The Commander review – true story of patriotic heroism tries to avoid being political football

  • Madeleine Riffaud obituary

November 2024

  • Johannes Gutenberg showing the first proof of a Bible printed on the moveable-type printing press he invented in 1439

    The 1920s desecration of a Gutenberg Bible shocked the US – but miraculously gave a Jewish family new life in Australia

    Michael Visontay discovered that a ‘crime against history’ in the book world set off a chain of events that led to his family’s delicatessen in 1950s Sydney
  • A corridor with pipes overhead

    Germany draws up list of bunkers amid Russia tensions

    App planned for public to find emergency shelter in places including underground train stations and car parks
    • Fires, first aid and guns: meet the Finnish women training for war with Russia

    • Other lives
      The Rev Michael Halliwell obituary

    • ‘Treasure trove’ of unseen letters sent by Charles de Gaulle up for auction

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