Explore the critical events related to the war and the personal stories of those who lived through that challenging time.
Corporal Leo Major landed in Europe on D-day and took part in every major operation of the 3rd Canadian Infantry Divisio...
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Major Henryk Sucharski, the commander of the small garrison at Westerplatte, was under orders to thwart the German advan...
The 14-year-old Jew Manfred Steinfeld fled from Nazi Germany to the USA in 1938. Seven years later he returned with the ...
Mark Clark played a leading role in the Italian Campaign (1943-1945). First he was Commander of the U.S. 5th Army, then ...
Melvin ‘Bud’ Biddle was a soft-spoken young man who adored pretty Leona, his childhood sweetheart. War tore him away fro...
Soviet Colonel-General Nikolai Berzarin commanded the 5th Shock Army during the Berlin campaign that lasted from 16 Apri...
As an artillery officer for the U.S. 101st Airborne Division, Parker Alford travelled to Normandy, France, as part of th...
The story of Petronela Brywczyńska proves that no one was safe during the war. Petronela’s father, a Polish farmer, was...
In the desperate days of June 1940 captain Philippe de Hauteclocque made his way to London and adopted the war-name of "...
Charles of Belgium, brother of King Leopold III, was Regent of Belgium from September 1944 to July 1950. Nine government...
Ralph Neumann grew up in Berlin as the son of Jewish parents. In early 1943, the then 16 year old Neumann eluded deporta...
During the Second World War the Frenchman René Rossey volunteered for a military career, at first in the Free French For...
On 13 December 1944, Robert Cahow lost his life in the Hürtgen Forest. He had volunteered to save injured comrades but d...
During the Second World War 6 million Jews were murdered across Europe by the German occupiers. Rose Jakobs was a Jewish...
Rosie the Riveter is the symbol for all the women that worked in the war industry during the Second World War. As the me...
During the campaign in Italy, Sergio Pivetta was a cadet in the Alpine troops of the Royal Italian Army. During the Batt...
Stella Czajkowska is one of the relatively few Jews who survived the war, despite the ghetto, the gas chambers in Auschw...
Svetoslao N. Hlopoff arrived in eastern France as a soldier with the U.S. Army in December 1944. After the surrender of ...
The Reifeisen family was an ‘ordinary’ Jewish family, whose fate is exemplary for the destruction of European Jewry duri...
After Italy announced its withdrawal from the Second World War in early September 1943, the Wehrmacht deported Italian s...
During the Italian campaign, Crown Prince Umberto di Savoia often visited the front and on the eve of the Battle of Mont...
Vincenzo Cesare Dapino was the first commander of the First Motorized Group, a unit of the Italian Royal army that took ...
Werner Krüger was a German soldier serving with the 9th SS-Panzerdivision Hohenstaufen. In September 1944 he and his tan...
Wilhelm Keitel served as chief of the Supreme Command of the Wehrmacht from 1938 to 1945. He loyally supported Hitler’s ...