Explore the critical events related to the war and the personal stories of those who lived through that challenging time.
Operation Mincemeat was an effective diversion capable of drawing the Axis forces away from Sicily, the place where the ...
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The Anglo-American bombing of the cities of Sicily was an important part of Operation Husky. The damage caused in some c...
Salvatore Aldisio was a leading Sicilian Catholic politician, who during the war was among the founders of the Christian...
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A lawyer and politician lent to the war, Aldo Charles Poletti managed the Allied military government in occupied Italy, ...
Frank Eugene Toscani was Allied governor of Licata between July and August 1943, and handled the emergency that followed...
Despite the loss of a hand, Hans-Valentin Hube fought across Europe at the head of his motorised troops, managing the We...
Oliver William Hargreaves Leese was an officer who was very close to the British General, Bernard Montgomery. Leese foug...
At the end of the Battle of the Bulge, the war was unfortunately not yet over. The melting snow caused the rivers to swe...
On 26 December 1944, General Patton successfully broke open the Bastogne encirclement with his counterattack, in only fi...
Hyman A. Josefson was a first generation American, born in 1909 in Middletown, New York. He was the youngest son of Roma...
Born 31 March 1916 in Rosenthal, Silesia and naturalised in the USA, Warner William Holzinger was to become the first US...
Whilst there were no British ground troops in Luxembourg during the Second World War. The Royal Air Force (RAF) had been...
Captain Harry M. KEMP was born in 1919 and was a native Pennsylvanian (area of Scranton, PA). In January 1937, he lied a...
News spread of the liberation of Paris amongst Luxembourgers. With the success of the Allied breakout from Normandy and ...
With the rapid liberation of Luxembourg in September 1944 and the Allied advance towards the borders of the Third Reich,...
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Marguerite Linden (maiden name Meier, born in 1921), lived in Bivels, near Vianden, on the Our river. She was suddenly p...
After the German military occupation of Luxembourg began, small groups of resistance fighters were born all over the cou...
Traute Lafrenz, an early opponent of the Nazi Regime, was a close friend of Hans Scholl and his family. She helped to ...
Zofia Haltof-Mikołajewska was a member of the Polish resistance and served as a liason officer and nurse with the Home...
Jadwiga Podrygałło took part in the defense of Warsaw in 1939. After the occupation she joined the resistance movement...
Aleksandra was an outstanding Polish theater actress. During the war she was in the resistance movement. She helped Po...
Marga Grunberg was a 17-year old Jewish refugee from Germany. In the Netherlands she joined the resistance and distribut...
Out of a great sense of justice, red-haired Jo Schaft went to study law in Amsterdam in 1938. During the occupation, Jo ...
Fernanda Kapteijn was a teenager from Utrecht and a bicycle courier for the resistance. Women like Kapteijn were essenti...