Archive to reveal new details on WWII Jews' arrests

By TOBY STERLING - The Associated Press

AMSTERDAM — The Netherlands' national archive said Tuesday it has gathered new information about the arrests and deportations of some 9,000 Dutch Jews during World War II.

The information, from a sealed archive on wartime collaborators, will reveal to some Dutch Jews the names of those who arrested their relatives and other precious facts about their final days as they were deported to Nazi concentration camps during the German occupation of the Netherlands from 1940 to 1945.

The project was carried out by journalist Ad van Liempt and a team of researchers who received special permission in Sept. 2010 to review dossiers of 250 collaborators who are no longer alive.

It primarily centers on the work of the "Henneicke Column" — a group of Dutch Nazi collaborators working in the investigative division of the government's Central Bureau for Jewish Emigration, which employed police and bounty hunters to find Jews who had escaped the net of the Nazis and their informers...

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Airman Missing in Action from WWII Identified

            The Department of Defense POW/Missing Personnel Office (DPMO) announced today that the remains of a serviceman, missing in action from World War II, have been identified and are being returned to his family for burial with full military honors.

            Army Air Forces 2^nd Lt. Martin P. Murray, 21, of Lowell, Mass., will be buried on April 16 in Marshfield, Mass.  Murray, along with 11 other crew members, took off on Oct. 27, 1943, in their B-24D Liberator from an airfield near Port Moresby, New Guinea.  Allied plans were being formulated to mount an attack on the Japanese redoubt at Rabaul, New Britain.  

The crew’s assigned area of reconnaissance was the nearby shipping lanes in the Bismarck Sea.  But during their mission, they were radioed to land at a friendly air strip nearby due to poor weather conditions.  The last radio transmission from the crew did not indicate their location.  Multiple search missions in the following weeks did not locate the aircraft.

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WWII plane at bottom of sea to be dug up by historians

Historians are trying to dig up a World War II plane that's buried at the bottom of the sea.

The Dornier 17 was a German bomber and 1,700 were built but only one has survived, as a wreck lying on the sea floor under the English Channel.
The plane was shot down on 26 August 1940 and made an emergency landing in the sea just off the Kent coast.
Two of the four crew members died and the pilot and one other survived to become prisoners of war.

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Film documents WWII soldiers' graveyard

Erik Ofgang, Contributing Writer


One morning two years ago, Jeff Wiggins was sitting in his New Fairfield home when his wife answered the phone. An everyday occurrence, but during the conversation that followed she said a word that made his blood run cold: "Margraten."

It was a word Wiggins, 86, had not heard nor spoken to anyone for almost 65 years -- not even Janice, his wife of 42 years. Sixty-five years of nightmares, haunted memories and trying unsuccessfully to forget.

Margraten is a small village in the Netherlands. It had a population of 1,300 people in 1944, when it became the site of a massive graveyard for Allied soldiers. By the war's end, 28,000 soldiers had been buried there.

Wiggins, who is originally from Alabama, is the only known survivor of a group of 280 black American servicemen who worked 12 hours a day, seven days a week, digging those graves.

In harsh weather and muddy conditions, they buried the mutilated corpses of young soldier after young soldier.

The phone call Wiggins got two years ago was...

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Remains of Jews killed by Romanian troops in WWII are buried, bodies discovered in forest

BUCHAREST, Romania - The remains of dozens of Jews killed by Romanian troops during World War II have been buried in a Jewish graveyard in the eastern city of Iasi.
The daily Eveniumentual Zilei reported Tuesday that seven rabbis from the United States, Britain and Romania took part in Monday afternoon's ceremony.
In November, a Holocaust-era mass grave containing the bodies of an estimated 100 Jews was discovered in a forest, offering further evidence of the country's involvement in wartime crimes.

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MI5: Zionists 'plotted to kill Churchill'

A Jewish extremist group proposed assassinating Winston Churchill, Britain's war-time leader, declassified files from Britain's spy agency have revealed, along with plans by the Nazis to poison food as part of a post WWII sabotage operation.
Eliyahu Bet-Zuri, who was hanged in 1945 for murdering Walter Guinness, also known as Lord Moyne, a British government minister in Cairo, suggested a plan to kill a number of "highly placed British political personalities, including Churchill", records released on Monday showed.
Major James Robertson, who worked for the MI5 Middle East section, wrote that threats made by Bet-Zuri in November 1944 were revealed by a member of the Stern Gang, an armed Zionist group that fought against the British presence in Palestine.
Robertson said the suspect told them that: "as soon as he [Bet-Zuri] returned to Stern Group headquarters he proposed to suggest a plan for the assassination of highly placed British political personalities, including Mr Churchill, for which purpose emissaries should be sent to London."
In February 1946 Britain's defence security officer in Palestine sent an encrypted telegram to London revealing a plot to kill ministers.
"Stern Group are training members to go to England to assassinate members of His Majesty's Government ...Stern further reported to be receiving practical sympathy from important Jews [in] Palestine," he wrote.

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UK Secret Service Documents Reveal WWII Nazi Poison Plot

Would-be German assassins armed with poison aspirin, cigarettes, and coffee parachuted in behind allied lines towards the end of World War II, according to documents released by British Security Service, MI5, on April 4.

The documents are a collection of interrogation reports, field reports, and correspondences, some hand written, from November 1944 to the end of August 1945, entitled “Use of Poisons by the German Sabotage Service.”

The workings of subversion operations planned by this specialized Nazi security services unit were further revealed when a unit of four German agents were captured in allied territory in France after their aircraft was shot down.

According to one of the document—a secret report from the Counterintelligence War Room London April 2,1945—terrorist tactics were a last ditch attempt by the Nazis at the very end of the war.

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60-year hunt for Russian Czars' missing Amber Room may be over after discovery in Germany

60-year hunt for Russian Czars' missing Amber Room may be over after discovery in Germany

By Daily Mail Reporter

The hunt for the missing Amber Room of the Czars has taken a new twist with treasure hunters in a small town in east Germany about to break into a bunker they believe may hold one of the lost wonders of the modern world.

The priceless room which once belonged the the King of Prussia Peter the Great was looted by Nazis during WWII and the original wallas have been missing ever since.

But now Matthias Gluba, a civil engineer and hobby historian, has triggered the new frenzy after researching wartime records of the town of Auerswalde near Chemnitz.

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Gone 67 years, remains of WWII Berkley airman finally at rest

Nathan Hurst / Detroit News Washington Bureau

Arlington, Va.— Sixty-seven years ago, 1st Lt. Richard Thomas Heuss of Berkley was riding in a B-24D Liberator plane off the coast of Papua New Guinea when suddenly he and 10 crewmates went off the radar, never to be heard from again.
Today, the remains of the 11 men were laid to rest in Arlington National Cemetery, closing out a mystery that's haunted their families for nearly seven decades.

In the shadow of the Pentagon, just outside Washington, D.C., near the eastern edge of Section 65 at the cemetery — the nation's largest resting place for veterans — families of the 11 men gathered to remember their long-lost loved ones. They first attended a private memorial service at Fort Meyer's Post Chapel, then followed a horse-drawn carriage carrying a coffin with 10 of the men's remains; 2nd Lt. Robert A . Miller was buried in a separate casket.

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