THE NORMANDY INSTITUTE PAYS HOMAGE TO THE MEN OF EASY COMPANY
To commemorate the 20th anniversary of the series “band of Brothers”
On September 9, 2001, the HBO miniseries Band of Brothers aired its first two episodes. Two days later the world was in shock as planes crashed into the Twin Towers in

Col. Ed Shames (June 13, 1922 – December 3, 2021) was a veteran of the famed Easy Company, 101st Airborne Division, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment during World War II. The division, best known for its portrayal in the miniseries "Band of Brothers," saw action from the D-Day invasion to victory i

Veterans share their memories of D-Day. It has been 70 years since the critical invasion of Normandy during WWII.

On the 70th anniversary of D-Day, emotional WWII veterans look back at the largest seaborne invasion in history. More than 5,000 ships and 13,000 aircraft were sent to storm the heavily German-fortified French coastline of Normandy on June 6, 1944. The coordinated operation left a lasting global imp...

Marcel Marceau saved at least 70 Jewish children from the Nazis through risky border crossings during World War II, and his cousin Georges Loinger saved 350. Marcel Marceau saved at least 70 Jewish children from the Nazis through risky border crossings during World War II, and his cousin Georges Loi...

This short documentary profiles two elderly Holocaust survivors in Florida who recently formed their own klezmer band. Produced by Joshua Z. Weinstein

Second Gentleman Douglas Emhoff marks Holocaust Remembrance Day with a trip to Auschwitz, Poland on January 27, 2023. On this annual day of commemoration, the UN urges every member state to honor the six million Jewish victims of the Holocaust and millions of other victims of Nazism and to develop ...

During Kristallnacht, Jews were terrorized across Germany with nearly 100 killed, and homes, synagogues and business destroyed. The world watched and did nothing, leading to the horrors of the Holocaust. We must learn from the past and not stay silent in the face of hate.

Newsreels 1945, April 26
Nazi Atrocities Against Mankind
At WWII German prison camps real life horror pictures reveal the unbelievable atrocities committed by the Nazis in their murder camps.

The latest film from a production company behind a string of low-budget horror hits centers on a terrifying night spent carrying out an important Jewish burial ritual. “The Vigil,” out in the United States in August, is about a formerly observant Jew who is recruited to stand guard over the body of