As World War II reshaped rural Iowa, German prisoners of war became an essential labor force, and, in some cases, unexpected ...

Janet Flanner, a struggling novelist with an unconventional lifestyle, was one of countless Americans living in 1920s Paris, ...

Ilana Kantorowicz Shalem is one of the youngest Holocaust survivors. International Holocaust Memorial Day is observed across the world on January 27.

They flew biplanes made of canvas and wood, at night, with no parachutes — and struck terror into the German army. The 588th Night Bomber Regiment, known as the “Night Witches,” carried out over ...

IN THE pandemic Yorkshire born writer Bryn Evans read again the mysterious letter, which his wife Jean had found after her father’s passing ...

Some women adopted non-Jewish identities to support the resistance. For most, though, it was simply a strategy for survival – one with constant risk of exposure and execution.

Virginia Wright-Peterson, a researcher and author, joined The Lift to discuss women’s roles during World War II ahead of a talk on Thursday at the Bong Veterans Center. Women in the Northland and ...

Elisabeth Vincken had listened to artillery fire for eight straight days before someone knocked on her cottage door on Christmas Eve in 1944. She opened it to find three lost American soldiers, one ...

Empathy is under attack lately. The all-important ability to see the world through another person’s eyes is now being recast as something corrosive. The argument goes like this: if you’re empathetic, ...

JAMESTOWN, N.C. (WGHP) — It’s hard today to understand the desperation that existed in so much of the world at the end of World War II. Few people felt it like a young German woman who had gotten ...

As the title suggests, this is a gripping story of French resistance to the Nazis in the Second World War. It begins with the German conquest of France and the partition of the country between the ...