Nadine Ann Memel, 74, passed away at her home in Morgantown, WV, on October 22, 2025 after a well-fought and often arduous 7 year battle with multiple myeloma. Born on April 15, 1951, in Parkersburg, ...

THERE is a strange contrast between the history of this sleepy Baltic port in the centuries prior to the Paris Peace Conference and its prominence in the subsequent fifteen years. Until 1917, Memel ...

KAUNAS, Lithuania, March 22, 1939 (UP) - Lithuania surrendered Memel to Nazi Germany today under an implied ultimatum which said that if the annexation was effected peacefully Germany would ...

THE little town of Memel lies in the southeast corner of the Baltic at the northern outlet of the large, shallow Kurisches Haff. An ever-shifting sandbank, a little more than a mile in width, ...

The Nazi authorities today intensified the anti-Semitic drive in the newly-acquired Memel territory, spurring Jewish refugees to seek new homes in the United States, Palestine and European countries.

Refugees from Memelland today refuted an official statement that no Jews were left in the territory just taken over by Germany, declaring that some 300 still remained in the smaller towns of the ...

Eastern Europe’s eyes last week were on onetime Kaiser Wilhelm II’s former hunting lodge Rominten and upon Memel. Master of Rominten today is Germany’s No. 2 Nazi, beefy General Hermann Wilhelm Goring ...

Führer Hitler took Memel last week with enough flourish to make it seem valuable. It is not. The district is a homespun, colorless countryside 1,099 square miles in area bounded by East Prussia, the ...

The popular annual Memel to Newcastle Walk, held every August, has been postponed until next year. The Champ Group of Companies, which traditionally hosts the Walk, said in a statement that they had ...