Dynamic Directory - July 31, 2025

Yad Vashem, the Holocaust memorial museum in Jerusalem, has a very moving memorial to children lost in the war.

Yakov Mikhaylovich Yurovsky (18781938) was responsible for executing Tsar Nicholas, his family and their closest helpers (including Doctor Botkin).

During war, people create art or compose songs to bolster public support for the fighting. This is an example from the Union's point of view.

n the 12th of May, 1897, a man working in the Stijfveen peat bog - near avillage called Yde, in the Dutchprovince of Drenthe- was startled to find something highly unusual. What he saw was a well-preserved mummy of a teenaged girl, referred to asHet Meisje van Yde(Dutch for "The Girl from Yde").

According to the U.S. Army Center for Military History: "On 28 September these armies [the combined Franco-American forces] began siege operations, using the traditional European system of approaches by parallel trenches."

The Toronto Music Garden is inspired by J.S. Bach's Suite No. 1 in G Major for Unaccompanied Cello. In this video clip, Yo-Yo Ma—who was involved in the garden project—plays the Prelude.

This WWI-era sign, along a road in the Belgian town of Ypres, signifies the profound losses sustained by residents of the town and the men who died fighting to keep it in Allied hands.

During World War I, Germany began to use chemical weapons against the Allies. One of those weapons was mustard gas.

As German invaders tried to take the territory in and around Ypres, Allies battled back to hold the Belgian town.