A wartime scrapbook my grandfather kept contains harrowing photographs from the Dachau concentration camp. I think I finally understand why he took them.

It was February 25, 1942, two and a half months after the attack on Pearl Harbor, and the U.S. Navy had given the island’s ...

The most notorious was biting the head off a live bat while on stage in Iowa in 1982. He had been catapulting raw meat into ...

At 101 years old, World War II veteran Walter Ram still shows up every Monday at the 390th Memorial Museum in Tucson — not to ...

Liesbeth Heenk has published 115 Holocaust memoirs and nonfiction narratives in English, and she continues to search for stories that recount the experiences people lived through during that low point ...

About two years ago I was talking with Mike, a friend of mine I've known since Ronald Reagan was still in the White House, and he asked me a question out of left field: What if we went on a tour of ...

Munich might be famous for its beer halls and annual Oktoberfest, but it’s also a great spot for a family vacation with older ...

For many American families, taking the kids to Europe is a major travel goal and milestone. Planning a trip to another ...

A crystal-covered chair inspired by one of Vincent Van Gogh’s most famous paintings was seriously damaged when a tourist sat on it while posing for a photograph, according to the Italian museum ...

The museum has reported the incident to police and released CCTV footage as a warning to respect art in public spaces.

In completing a circular, 17-day tour of Germany recently, it was impossible not to observe the meticulous beauty of the ...

A crystal-covered chair inspired by one of Vincent Van Gogh’s most famous paintings was seriously damaged when a tourist sat on it while posing for a photograph, according to the Italian museum ...