They did not sit idly by.Tina Buchter came by her strength and courage quite naturally. Hers was family of strong Dutch women; her mother, Marie Schotte, had...
That wasn't nice.It happened while he stood next to the train at Auschwitz, this moment that he would recount 50 years later. He was an accountant,...
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...
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 childrenWhen 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...
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...