Explore the critical events related to the war and the personal stories of those who lived through that challenging time.
Franz Reichleitner was called “Idiot” by the inmates of the Nazi camp at Sobibór. However, they did not call him that be...
#Biography
Johan Niemann died during a prisoner revolt at Sobibor concentration camp. He spent a third of his short life as a part ...
He was one of the prisoners in the Sobibór concentration camp, which, like Treblinka and Bełżec, was a site of mass exte...
Born in Berdyczow (now Ukraine), his actual name was Iosif Solomonovich Grossman, he came from a Jewish family. Although...
Kurt Franz was a Nazi war criminal. After completing his compulsory military service, in 1937 he joined the SS-Totenkopf...
Samuel Willenberg was born in Częstochowa, his mother was a Russian who converted to Judaism. His father, an artist, wor...
Martin Gottfried Weiss was the commandant of many concentration camps. Accounts about him are contradictory – inmates at...
With American troops approaching the Dachau concentration camp, the Nazis panicked. Camp commandant Martin Weiss fled, a...
Felix Spark was a veteran of World War II, after which he served, among other things, in the Colorado State National Gua...
When the war broke out, Sam Pivnik was still a child – he was 13 years old. Along with his parents, sister and two broth...
Bogdan Suchowiak was a reserve officer of the Polish Army. In 1939, he participated in the defense campaign after the at...
Maria Mandl had many nicknames given to her by female inmates at Auschwitz-Birkenau. One called her “Mandelka”, which wa...
David Dushman was a Red Army soldier who fought in World War II as a tank driver. He took part in many battles, includin...
Marc Bloch, a leading historian and member of the French Resistance, was executed by the Gestapo in 1944 and will rest...
Madeleine Riffaud was a member of the French Resistance who carried out daring missions against Nazi forces, enduring ...
Witold Pilecki was a Polish Army officer who joined the conspiracy against the German and Soviet occupying forces in 193...
Jürgen Stroop was an SS general (German: Gruppenführer). He took part in the occupation of the so-called Sudetenland in ...
Cywia Lubetkin, nicknamed Celina, was a Polish Jew who became a symbol of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. Before the war, sh...
Zenon Malik was a Polish soldier and officer. During the occupation of Poland he joined the Home Army in Kraków and ga...
Willi Graf was an devout Catholic and an active supporter of the White Rose. He was forced to serve as a medical orderly...
Validio Mantovani was a factory worker and a member of the Milanese Gruppi di Azione Patriottica (Patriotic Action Group...
Tadeusz Bieńkowicz was a member of the resistance and took part in one of the largest actions to free prisoners in occ...
Stanisław Kolasiński was a soldier of the Polish Army. After the Polish defeat in 1939 he went to France to join the P...
Sergio Kasman played a crucial part in the resistance, contributing to the liberation of political prisoners. His involv...