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The silent cry of a mother's heart.
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...
What's in a name?
The boys, Hermann and Albert, were just two years apart in age and grew up in the castle of Veldenstein near Nurnberg in Germany....
A wave of opportunity.
She wasn’t supposed to be there of course. She was meant to be in relative safety, sitting on a transport barge in the English channel...
Kindness never hurts.
It was over 100 degrees that August day in 1942 when the first of what would eventually be 1,000 kids arrived in Tehran. They were Jewish...
Besa, the difference between life and death
It was simple really. They lived by Besa, the highest ethical code in Albania. It means to be a person to whom one can entrust one’s life...
I Know What I Am Fighting For
He would not see his 40th birthday, but even so Father Franz could not do the unthinkable. He could not swear allegiance to the Fuhrer,...
Dancing with Death
Dorothy Baggett was 21 years old on March 1, 1942, when she graduated from St. Margaret's Nursing School in Montgomery, Alabama. How...
They called him the village idiot.
His name was Anton. He lived on the very edge of society in the town of Zborow, Poland; no friends, no family; his home a rundown shack....
The best that she could do.
She was 11 when the Nazis came to power, and like most German kids, she was enthralled with the youthful camaraderie they offered. She...
They remembered who they once were.
It began in 1685. The king of France forbade French Huguenots to leave France and had them ruthlessly hunted down. A half million French...
For three years, they stood!
They wore their hair long because the Hitler Youth wore theirs short. They wore traditional German attire, refusing the dreaded brown...
And so Paddington Bear was born.
They began arriving on a cold day in December of 1938. Eventually almost 10,000 would arrive at the cavernous Reading Station in London....
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