Explore the critical events related to the war and the personal stories of those who lived through that challenging time.
Piet Meerbug was a member of the resistance in Amsterdam. He was the leader of a resistance group that helped to save hu...
#Biography
Kurt Huber was one of the few German professors who opposed the Nazi Regime. In December 1942, Huber joined the White Ro...
Johan Snoek helped people in hiding. When he and his family were driven from their home by the Battle of Arnhem in Septe...
Henryk Kosior fought in Polish Army in September 1939. During the Soviet occupation, he joined the resistance. He was ...
Hans Scholl was the central figure of the White Rose, an anti-Nazi resistance group in Munich. Scholl, together with f...
Hans Leipelt was a student at Munich University. He received a copy of the sixth leaflet of the White Rose on the day th...
Ferruccio Parri was a key figure of the Italian resistance movement. As the Deputy commander of the Volunteers of Freedo...
The Blitz in Portsmouth killed or injured over 3,000 people and included 67 major bombing raids. It is estimated that ...
#Story
During the Second World War, Portsmouth, a small south coast city in England, played a crucial role in Allied operati...
When Nazi Germany invaded the Netherlands on 10 May 1940, Ernst Sillem was 16 years old. From the start, he tried to thw...
Danuta Siedzikówna joined the Home Army when she was 15 years old and served as nurse. After the war, when the communi...
Christoph Probst came from an unconventional family and was the only one of the White Rose students who had children. He...
Carlo Travaglini was German on his mother’s side, and was an independent partisan who managed to save numerous Italian s...
Boy Ecury from Aruba – a Caribbean island colonized by the Dutch – was studying in the Netherlands when the country was ...
Alfredo Malgeri was the commander of the Guardia di Finanza (Financial Guard) in Milan. He played an important role in t...
Alexander Schmorell was born in Russia but grew up in Germany. In the summer of 1942, he and Hans Scholl produced and ...
The German-Soviet Pact, also known as the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, was a non-aggression treaty signed on August 23, 1939...
Missak Manouchian was a key leader in the French Resistance during World War II, noted for his leadership of the FTP-MOI...
At 22 years of age, Albert Andre (resistant name Jacque Paris (1919-03-01)) and his family were residents of in the se...
The landing in Sicily on 10 July 1943 was the first major Allied landing operation on European soil. Given the concent...
#Storyline
Towards the end of the Second World War, Allied troops uncovered camps in Nazi Germany and the areas it had occupied. Th...
George Smith Patton Jr. (1885-1945) was one of the protagonists of the Sicilian campaign in 1943. The rapid advance of h...
At the time of the invasion of Sicily in 1943, Bernard Montgomery (1887 to 1976) was the commanding General of the Briti...
Sicily did not take a timely part in the Resistance movement, but it nevertheless contributed to it through the many S...