PARIS — When France hosts grandiose ceremonies commemorating D-Day, the heroic role of Missak Manouchian and other foreigners among French Resistance fighters in World War II is often overlooked.

Robert Badinter, the justice minister who ended the death penalty in France in 1981, entered the country's Pantheon mausoleum ...

Victoria LAVELLE, with Guillaume Souvant in Fresnay-sur-Sartre, France and Gianrigo Marletta in Tomball, Texas AFP May 5, 2025 May 5, 2025 Updated May 6, 2025 Renee Guette, 98, laughed as she looked ...

Join the Program in Judaic Studies and the Center for Collaborative History to hear Renée Poznanski discuss her book, recently published in an English translation, Propaganda and Persecution: The ...

Yvette Lundy, a heroine of the French Resistance during World War II, died Sunday at the age of 103. Lundy joined the Resistance at the beginning of the Nazi occupation of France and survived spells ...

The tomb of former French Justice Minister Robert Badinter, who was known for defending human rights and was inducted into ...

Victories in World War II weren’t just achieved by men. A cohort of courageous women worked as spies and operatives in intelligence agencies around the world, risking their lives to seek out covert ...