Not ordinary at all.
On September 10, Józef and Wiktoria Ulma and their seven children were recognized as saints of the Catholic Church. Józef and Wiktoria...
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She was a hero.
Strange where something like a broken dryer can lead… A young repairman came to our house yesterday to help with said dryer. My husband...
A tiny personal crusade.
The story of Wladyslaw Szpillman is widely known to many of us. He was one of only 20 Jews still alive in Warsaw when he was discovered...
For the lives of unknown children
When the Nazis marched into Belgium on May 28, 1940, Andree Geulen was only 18 years old. In the following year she became a teacher at...
Trying to do our part.
“Living Hell” wasn’t to be found only on the beaches… The D-Day invasion of June 6, 1944 saw 160,000 men land on the beaches of Normandy,...
The preservation of human values.
It was a memorable time of life that spring and summer of 1944 for Clara Ambrus, a young Catholic girl from Budapest, only nineteen at...
Something quite ordinary.
The year was 1939; the place, the state of Nawanagar in British India. Half a world away, the Germans had invaded Poland, and the country...
He had no doubt.
On May 4, 1939, the tugboats maneuvered the SS St. Louis away from the dock in Hamburg for the start of her two-week transatlantic...
A divine sense of duty.
“What now?” That was the question for Vitka Kemperer, a 19-year-old Polish girl who had escaped the invading Nazis and found her way...
The crime of saving lives.
I recently had the wonderful opportunity to hear a renowned speaker on looted Nazi art. It is estimated that 600,000 pieces of art were...
The finest of struggles.
It was April 19, 1943. Three young men peddled their bikes the 24 miles from Brussels to Boortmeerbeek, near the Nazi detention center in...
A fitting remembrance.
Thomas was in Los Angeles for work and happened to have some free time before his planned flight home the next day. And so, entirely...
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