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Writer: Randy Herschaft

May 7, 2013
1:29 pm

This image provided by the US Holocaust Memorial Museum shows Bulgarian policemen overseeing the deportation of Macedonian Jews to the German death camps in March 1943 in Bulgarian occupied Skopje. (photo credit: AP Photo/U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, Courtesy of Jewish Historical Museum, Belgrade)

Bulgarian honor bid in DC stirs Holocaust debate

Street-naming controversy underscores difficulty reconciling heroic individual deeds with the record of a nation as a whole

By Eric Tucker and Randy Herschaft

March 17, 2013
12:50 pm

Mohammed Rashed, center, convicted of the 1982 Pan Am jetliner bombing, listens to his unidentified PLO interpreter, left, during his appeals court hearing in Athens, Greece in December 1991 (photo credit: AP/Aris Saris, File)

Palestinian airline bomber to be released from US prison

Man who placed explosive device on Pan Am flight to Hawaii goes free after 20 years

By Eric Tucker and Randy Herschaft

December 28, 2012
1:27 pm

Jewish women and children deported from Hungary, separated from the men, line up for selection on the selection platform at Auschwitz camp in Birkenau, Poland, in 1944. (Photo credit: AP/Yad Vashem Photo Archives)

WWII-era papers show suspected Nazi living in US was guard at death camp

Documents prove Philadelphian Johann Breyer served at Auschwitz, and not at smaller work camp where he claims he was guard

By David Rising and Matt Moore and Randy Herschaft

September 23, 2012
1:30 pm

The home of Johann "Hans" Breyer, center, is seen in Philadelphia, on Wednesday, September 19, 2012 (photo credit: AP/Matt Rourke)

Philadelphia man accused of being SS Auschwitz guard

Johann “Hans” Breyer under investigation by Germany after failed attempts by the US Department of Justice to have him stripped of US citizenship and deported

By David Rising and Matt Moore and Randy Herschaft

September 14, 2012
12:15 am

Franciszek Herzog holds a photograph of his father, also named Franciszek Herzog, in Hebron, Conn. Herzog's father and uncle both died in the Katyn Forest massacres. (photo credit: AP Photo/Jessica Hill)

Newly declassified memos show US hushed up 1940 Soviet mass murder

It was the Soviets, not the Nazis, who killed 22,000 Poles with shots to the back of the head in or near the Katyn forest. Documents confirm suspicion Roosevelt kept silent so as not to anger Stalin

By Randy Herschaft and Vanessa Gera