The end of World War II in Europe. It became known as Victory in Europe, or VE Day. On this 80th anniversary, there are memorials and ... (SOUNDBITE OF BELLS CHIMING) LAUREN FRAYER, BYLINE ...

From Barnsley to Richmond, Knaresborough to Scarborough, Yorkshire people staged their own tributes to VE Day 80 years on.

Bells ringing for hours yesterday ... in the 1970s and was there for the latter Cold War and there for the fall of the Soviet Union in Eastern Europe, the - effectively, the liberation of his ...

There were forty -- forty synagogues in Kaunas before the war. And Jews in Kaunas were ... To show to Hitler that, in the Eastern Europe, the Jews can be murdered in the center of town.

Countries have declared states of mourning in honor of Pope Francis, ordering flags to be lowered and holding memorials ... war-torn Cameroon for Cyprus in hopes of eventually reaching Europe ...

The synagogue, which had also housed a vast library, kosher meat stalls and a communal well, had at one time been the crown jewel of the city, itself a center of Jewish life in Eastern Europe ...

It reinforced the narrative of the Soviet Union as the liberator of Europe from fascism and justified its post-war influence over Eastern Europe ... and the laying of wreaths at war memorials. The day ...

It is 80 years since the war in Europe came to an end with the Allies formally accepting ... Falkirk district, as our many war memorials starkly show, had paid a high price for peace with the loss of ...

(Jordan Pettitt/Pool photo via AP) LONDON — Even if the end of World War II in Europe spawned one of the most joyous days the continent ever lived, Thursday’s 80th anniversary of V-E Day is ...

LONDON (AP) — Even if the end of World War II in Europe spawned one of the most joyous days the continent ever lived, Thursday’s 80th anniversary of V-E Day is haunted as much by the specter ...

Europe is marking one of its most joyous days in history LONDON -- Even if the end of World War II in Europe spawned one of the most joyous days the continent ever lived, Thursday’s 80th ...