Ontdek belangrijke gebeurtenissen tijdens de oorlog en de verhalen van hen die deze tijd meemaakten.
After a year of German occupation, Pistoia was liberated on 8 September 1944. This followed a major operation by partisa...
#Verhaal
Father Libero Raglianti was a Tuscan priest and partisan who was active in the Resistance in Versilia, where he distingu...
#Biografie
Antonio Giurolo was born in San Pietro a Castello di Arzignano (Vicenza) on 12 February 1912. He was known as “Capitano ...
Mario Nanni was a partisan in the hills around Bologna. After the Second World War, he became a renowned artist. Towards...
Gino Costantini, a railway worker from Vergato, was a valiant commander in the Reno Valley, working alongside the Modena...
Father Luigi Tommasini, parish priest of Burzanella, was an opponent of fascism, chaplain to Italian workers in Germany,...
Jean Moulin was a French prefect and Resistance leader who worked to unite the main Resistance movements under the autho...
Peter Gingold was a German Jewish communist and anti-Nazi resistance member who was active in exile in France and fought...
Ben Ferencz was a Nuremberg prosecutor and one of the last surviving figures of the postwar trials, who dedicated his li...
Frank Meier was an Austrian-born barman who became a central figure at the Ritz in Paris, navigating the complex realiti...
Jean Luchaire was a French journalist and collaborationist figure during World War II, known for his early pro-Nazi stan...
Maresca was one of the most devastated towns in the entire province of Pistoia during the Second World War. Total war pr...
During the Second World War, Sambuca Pistoiese was affected by roundups, deportations, massacres, and anti-partisan oper...
Leone Ginzburg, an anti-fascist intellectual and proponent of the Italian political idea of liberal socialism, was kille...
This well-known Polish soldier was born in 1892 in Galicia under Austrian rule. He quickly became the main provider for ...
Ferruccio Parri, a liberal anti-fascist, helped lead Italy’s Resistance, survived imprisonment, and became the first pos...
Lucie Bernard, known as Lucie Aubrac, was an important French communist partisan who fought against Nazi Germany and th...
Bolesław Stachoń was a Polish Major General who is buried at the Maczek Memorial alongside lower-ranking soldiers. He w...
Op de bevroren slagvelden van Kuhmo vonden tijdens de Winteroorlog hevige gevechten plaats, waarbij de Finse tactieken...
#Verhaallijn
William ‘Bill’ Stone was one of the last surviving Royal Navy veterans of both World Wars. He served with distinction ...
Sonya D'Artois, een Britse Special Operations Executive (SOE) agent, parachuteerde in 1944 naar Frankrijk toen ze nog ma...
Warrant Officer Nathan Louis Berger, een radiotelegrafist van de Royal Canadian Air Force, kwam om op D-Day toen het Dak...
Louise Boitard, een moedige onderwijzeres, sloot zich tijdens de Tweede Wereldoorlog aan bij het Franse verzet onder de ...
Lloyd Vernon Chadburn, een gedecoreerde Canadese piloot, leidde 416 Squadron tijdens de Tweede Wereldoorlog en werd meer...
