News of remembrance

Yom HaShoah

An exercise in perspective, 77 years on from the Warsaw Ghetto uprising

20-04-2020 16:10 Monday night marks Yom HaShoah, the day in Hebrew Calendar that remembers the uprising at the Warsaw Ghetto.

by Dr. Ariel Gelblung

SUBMARINE TRAGEDY

Two years on, the working theory behind the sinking of ARA San Juan

15-11-2019 14:17 A fault in the E19 valve is the strongest hypothesis for the submarine’s sinking. The Argentine Navy will hold a remembrance event for the vessel's fallen crew-members this afternoon.

MEMORIAL SERVICE

British Embassy pays tribute to late journalist Andrew Graham-Yooll

24-10-2019 18:40 Ambassador Mark Kent leads tributes to late journalist, editor and author, with remembrance from former Buenos Aires Herald editor Robert Cox and cousin John Hunter, and a musical tribute.

by Michael Soltys

D-DAY REMEMBRANCE: 75 YEARS ON

Chasing demons: 75 years on, D-Day still haunts and drives its veterans

05-06-2019 14:28 They are back. Some for the first time since war stole their innocence 75 years ago on Normandy's D-Day beaches. Here, in their own words, veterans explain why they wanted to return.

D-DAY REMEMBRANCE: 75 YEARS ON

97-year-old D-Day veteran parachutes into Normandy once again

05-06-2019 14:20 D-Day veteran TomRice jumped with the US Army's 101st Airborne Division on that momentous day 75 years ago. Today, he jumped once again, to honour those who descended into gunfire and death ahead of the June 6, 1944, seaborne invasion.

D-DAY REMEMBRANCE: 75 YEARS ON

Looking back to 1944: Read how one journalist reported on the D-Day landings

05-06-2019 14:11 Today, we are republishing an original report from Associated Press journalist Don Whitehead, first published in June 1944, to mark the 75th anniversary of the assault that began the liberation of France and Europe from German occupation.

D-DAY REMEMBRANCE: 75 YEARS ON

Queen Elizabeth II, Trump and world leaders honour veterans on D-Day anniversary

05-06-2019 13:56 Leaders gather Wednesday on the south coast of England to honour the troops who risked and sacrificed their lives 75 years ago on D-Day, the bloody but ultimately triumphant turning point in World War II.