This is an updated version of a story first published on Oct. 20, 2024. The original video can be viewed here. Everyone knows the story of the Titanic, the opulent British ocean liner that struck an ...

During the Holocaust, Manfred Goldberg survived confinement in the Riga, Latvia ghetto and four concentration camps before he witnessed a bombing in Germany that took the lives of thousands of ...

The Cap Arcona, a Nazi ship, was attacked by British Royal Air Force planes near the end of World War II. Thousands of prisoners died as the ship sank in the horrific and little-known disaster. As the ...

FILE - In this May 3, 2015 file photo Wim Alosery, the last survivor of the sunken NS prison ship Cap Arcona, leans on a rail of a ship at the sight of the sinking of the Cap Arcona which was ladden ...

Of all the abductions, this one is different.

Luxury ocean liner Cap Arcona, also known as 'the Floating Palace', was Germany's answer to the RMS Titanic. It too came to a tragic end when it was bombed while carrying 2,800 concentration camp ...

In May 1945, as Nazi Germany teetered on collapse, RAF pilots prepared to strike fleeing German ships in Lübeck Bay. Among ...

Eighty years ago, on May 3, 1945, as Europe stood in hope and prayer for the end of World War II, one of the greatest and most silenced maritime tragedies of the 20th century unfolded in the Bay of ...

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On the afternoon of 3 May 1945, a squadron of RAF Typhoons began their descent to attack Axis shipping in Bay of Neustadt, Germany. Below them, the former luxury liner SS Cap Arcona was laden with ...

This is an updated version of a story first published on Oct. 20, 2024. The original video can be viewed here. Everyone knows the story of the Titanic, the opulent British ocean liner that struck an ...

BERLIN — The last known Dutch survivor of the Nazi concentration camp Neuengamme and the Cap Arcona maritime disaster, Wim Alosery, has died. A spokeswoman for the Neuengamme memorial center said Mr.