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An example worth far more.
It is hard for us to imagine the situation that existed across Europe in 1943. Countless families had been ripped apart, leaving children...
Way leads to way.
“Yet knowing how way leads on to way, I doubted I should ever come back. I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the...
Four selfless heroes.
Without the defeat of Nazi Germany, the Holocaust would have been complete, and that defeat required the dedication and sacrifice of...
She was a truth-teller.
They seemed to creep out of the woodwork that last Sunday of April in 1945 – living skeletons, covered with lice, waving tiny Allied...
Disguised as a nurse.
The letter changed everything. Before that she was his mother, but afterwards she took on a new persona – the brave and daring young...
Forever never came.
They wanted to do a little big thing, something to make a difference in the fight for freedom. Giorgio Paglia and Cicci Vandone were just...
Right from under their noses.
He was only a toddler when his Jewish family made a daring attempt to escape the Nazis by crossing the Swiss border in 1942. They almost...
Just trying to do our part.
The D-Day invasion on June 6, 1944 would see 160,000 men land on the beaches of Normandy, and planners knew that casualties would be...
A clever hero.
It was a dreadful time in Rome that October of 1943. Not only had Nazi troops taken over the city in September, but now Il Morbo di K had...
More than a nanny.
It was a time in Hungary when children worked as servants for wealthy families. Such was the case for 13-year-old Erzsebet (Elizabeth),...
Here it is!
You asked, and here it is! The Little Book of Heroes is available on Amazon! This little book is a compilation of favorite stories,...
Her famous Grandad.
She had great admiration for her Grandad, although he died when she was only two years old. He was a famous man, after all, a Nobel Prize...
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