An unknown witness to history.
She was a young woman from Montreal, raised in a big, boisterous Irish Catholic family. Early in life she felt called to serve her fellow...
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"We are all Jews."
They didn’t expect to find themselves POWs in German Stalag IX-A. They had fought their way through the freezing Ardennes Forest over...
On the way to heaven.
She was a farm girl born in Dumfriesshire, Scotland, just near the border with England. Jane Haining grew up simply on the farm, but as...
The most famous spy we've never heard of.
It was late 1942, the Gestapo were closing in, and it was essential that she escape. She had been in France working behind enemy lines...
"I did what I had to do."
It was a desperate time, this week before Christmas, 1944. Since D-Day in June the Allies had fought their way across France and Belgium...
The finest of all human struggles.
It was April 19, 1943. Three young men peddled their bikes the 24 miles from Brussels to Boortneerbeek, near the Nazi detention center in...
Believe it.
She was on the cover of Vogue at age 19 – one of the world’s most beautiful and glamorous women. The camera loved her, as did the world...
Fate rewarded both.
The Salomons were bakers in Cologne, Germany, descended from five generations of a proud German family. Young Arthur Salomon was a...
She refused to be a bystander.
It was an ordinary day in the spring of 1942 – a day that would change her life forever. Marion Binsbergen was a 21-year-old social work...
Hidden for another day.
Tadeusz Pankiewicz was a pharmacist in Krakow in the fateful year of 1939 when the Nazis arrived. Unfortunately for him, the family shop,...
She did not go quietly.
She was a prima ballerina, one of the great talents of pre-war Europe. Of course, that didn’t matter in the least because she was also...
Hidden in plain sight.
They were circus people. Adolf's family had owned the renowned Althoff circus in Germany for more than 200 years, and he himself had been...
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