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She lived just outside a tiny town in the Deep South, where her nine children were born. She and Papa, still young then, and their brood worked the farm, moving with the seasons year to year. The bright, hot sun and the nighttime stars came and went as they always had. But there were other stars now, five of them, in the front parlor window of the farmhouse, one for each of her sons. They were in far off places, Guadalcanal and Normandy and the Ardennes Forest. She did her pa

In order to put an end to the Final Solution, the complete defeat of Nazi Germany and Adolf Hitler was imperative. It is difficult for us to imagine today how many individual contributions, how many individual lives were required to secure victory. One such contribution was made by none other than Clark Gable, the gorgeous Rhett Butler known worldwide by movie fans. Clark Gable was actually beyond the age of required military service, but he volunteered none the less. His dec

Noor Inayat Khan was a princess, descended from royalty and daughter of a Sufi mystic. She was gently raised in Paris, taught the arts of...

You may recall that Hans and Margret Rey, the famous authors of Curious George, escaped Paris just as the Nazi tanks arrived in 1940. As...

The town of Liepāja in Latvia lies only six miles from the beach, and of course, the townspeople loved to flock there in the summertime....

Beginning in the early 1930s in Germany, Hanukkah was observed less and less publicly and became a private observance in Jewish homes....

Imagine your living room window in Kiel, Germany. The year is 1931 and a few months ago the Nazi Party moved into the concert hall across...

It happened this way… a most improbable series of events: The tiny newborn baby, blond-haired and blue-eyed, was hidden, bundled inside a...

Ellie Wiesel – professor, author, Nobel laureate, and Holocaust survivor. Long before he was any of those things, though, he was a big...

The year was 1941; the place, Chisinev, Romania. The Romanian population rampaged through the streets, going door-to-door killing their...

I happened upon his picture quite by accident, scrolling through a post about Prague. That little expression, so alert and mischievous...

The young Oppenheimers opened an antique shop at Marktplatz 7 in 1908 and lived in a 2-room apartment above the store. There they raised...