February 20 marked the birth centenary of Zinaida Portnova, one of the youngest recipients of the Soviet Union’s highest wartime honour. Remembered for her role in the anti-Nazi underground in ...

Civilians fill the streets of Milan, Italy, on April 25, 1945, to celebrate their liberation by Italian partisans from German Nazi forces and the fascist regime. Many believe the famous Italian ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The unlikely story of a Jewish engineer and musician from Ukraine who became a World War II guerilla war hero — and the discovery ...

Aron Bell, who had been a teenage member of a daring brigade of Jewish partisans that during World War II attacked German troops in western Belorussia and rescued some 1,200 Jews from near-certain ...

The cyber unit of the Atesh partisan resistance movement launched a large-scale cyberattack against Russia's electronic draft system on December 3. The draft registry, a key website used for ...

Today, 17 August, marked the start of filming of the joint Belarusian-Russian movie Batka Minay: The Partisan Legend chronicling the life of Minay Shmyrev, a Belarusian partisan commander and Hero of ...

The partisan movement ATESH reported a shortage of military equipment and food supplies at one of the Russian Black Sea Fleet's strategic facilities in Crimea. Agents conducted reconnaissance of the ...

Leonard Cohen sings a song called “The Partisan”. It tells the story of an antifascist fighter in the heart of the war against Nazism. Beautifully rendered by Cohen on his 1969 album Songs From a Room ...

The unlikely story of a Jewish engineer and musician from Ukraine who became a World War II guerilla war hero — and the discovery of resistance songs he left behind — is the latest subject of a book ...