Posts Tagged: D-Day
Remembering D-Day: A Night on a Beach in Normandy
In the fall of 1972, when we were living in France, my husband and I went to tour the Normandy region, with its picturesque villages...
Remembering D-Day and the Holocaust: Fighting Nationalism With Remembrance
On Tuesday, June 6, 1944, a massive Allied landing operation commenced on the beaches of Normandy, in northern France. In one of the largest military...
As D-Day Landings Fade From Memory, a Veteran Grapples With Violence of War
Leon Gautier landed on Sword Beach in a hail of enemy fire on June 6, 1944, one of the first wave of French commandos to...
D-Day and the Bombing of Auschwitz
JNS.org - Seventy years ago this week, the Allies staged the D-Day invasion, landing some 24,000 troops on the beaches along France's Normandy Coast...
Yadlin: Israel Doesn’t Need America on D-Day
Major General (res.) Amos Yaldin asserted Israel's political and military independence from the U.S. by saying it could strike Iran on its own, a position...
FBI Files Revealed: New York’s Last Jewish Gangster, Julius Bernstein
Famous for his affiliation with the Genovese crime family, his extortion of New York labor unions and the Sbarros restaurant chain, and his military service...
