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Normandy landings anniversary marked on Omaha beach despite pandemic

A small ceremony was held in Saint-Laurent-Sur-Mer on Saturday morning to honour the sacrifice of those who died in the D-Day landings in June 1944.

Romania

Euroviews. The EU cannot afford to keep Romania in quarantine when it reopens the Schengen zone ǀ View

Any postponement of Romania's full entry into the Schengen Area is no longer technical, but a political decision about what Europe means and what Europe is.

United Kingdom

Queen Elizabeth says streets are 'filled with love' in VE Day speech

Queen Elizabeth marked the 75th anniversary of VE Day on Friday with a rare public address to the British public.

Belgium

Veteran, 98, goes on VE Day walk to save former soldiers' club

George Sutherlands says he has been inspired by the heroics of Captain Tom Moore who has raised millions of pounds for the UK health service amid the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Europe's week: Recession, resource pooling and racing for a vaccine

This week the EU was busy raising pledges for vaccine research and being blunt about the bloc's economic outlook.

World News

VE Day: A locked down Europe commemorates as best it can

Commemorations to mark the 75th anniversary of the end of World War II are muted this year across the Old Continent as most countries remain under lockdown due to the pandemic.

Russia

Russian WWII veteran starts charity appeal inspired by UK's Tom Moore

Zinaida Korneva, 97, has launched a Youtube channel with videos in which he tells of her trials as a WWII Red Army officer.

World News

VE Day marks the end of war in Europe: 'no wonder people went crazy'

May 8, 1945 saw the end of war declared in Europe as Nazi Germany was defeated, bringing jubilant celebrations.

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Russians create 75 portraits in time for VE Day Anniversary

Images of Russian war heroes are emerging across Nizhny Novgorod.

Germany

Volunteers search for missing soldiers 75 years after Second World War

Volunteers work to dig up bodies in Klessin, Germany to bring closure to families whose loved ones have only ever been a statistic.

Italy

Italy and Portugal celebrate Liberation Day under lockdown

Italy celebrated Liberation Day on Saturday, marking the 75th anniversary of the end of the fascist dictatorship of war-time ruler Benito Mussolini.

Switzerland

Swiss village faces decade-long evacuation over WW2 weapons dump

A Swiss village may have to be evacuated for 10 years, after authorities decided a huge Second World War weapons store nearby needed to be removed

World News

Yalta Conference: How the post-War order was decided

Winston Churchill, Franklin Roosevelt and Joseph Stalin met in Crimea on February 4, 1945. They carved up Germany, Europe and reshaped the world order.

United Kingdom

Paul Farnes, the last Battle of Britain flying ace, dies aged 101

Farnes was known as a flying ace for shooting down more than five enemy planes during the battle to protect Great Britain from Nazi air raids.

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Auschwitz survivors commemorate the 75 anniversary of liberation

The wreath-laying ceremony with the participation of former prisoners and Polish president Andrzej Duda inaugurated the commemoration of the Auschwitz Nazi Death camp's liberation by the Red Army on January 27, 1945.

World News

Holocaust history is being re-written - historians are fighting back

New narratives aim to whitewash he role of non-Germans in the killing of Jews.

World News

Euronews' Isabelle Kumar remembers her Jewish grandfather

For young Isabelle, it was the stuff of car journeys and strange childhood songs.

Russia

'People were exhausted, emaciated,' an Auschwitz liberator remembers

The extraordinary memories of a former Soviet soldier who was there on 27 January 1945.

World News

Holocaust Remembrance Day: how is the Holocaust taught where you live?

From UK to Germany, from Spain to Greece, the educational standards vary enormously regarding the genocide of millions of Jews. Euronews looks at how Europe's children learn about the Holocaust.

Italy

Holocaust survivor: 'Silence was the best choice' after Auschwitz

Just 35 of the 776 Italian children sent to Auschwitz survived. Liliana Segre was one of them.