Explore the critical events related to the war and the personal stories of those who lived through that challenging time.
News spread of the liberation of Paris amongst Luxembourgers. With the success of the Allied breakout from Normandy and ...
#Story
With the rapid liberation of Luxembourg in September 1944 and the Allied advance towards the borders of the Third Reich,...
#Storyline
Marguerite Linden (maiden name Meier, born in 1921), lived in Bivels, near Vianden, on the Our river. She was suddenly p...
#Biography
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...
19-year-old Indonesian Evy Poetiray came to the Netherlands in 1937 to study. Three years later, the Netherlands was occ...
One of the first decrees that Gauleiter Gustav Simon published was the introduction of the antisemitic Nuremberg Laws on...
Having drawn lessons from the First World War the Government had decided to leave Luxembourg in the likely event of a Ge...
On 10 May 1940, German troops invaded the neutral and unarmed Grand Duchy of Luxembourg. After several weeks of military...
More than one hundred Luxembourgers volunteered for the 1st Belgian Infantry Brigade ‘Brigade Piron’. Most of them const...
Giuseppina Sacerdote was a Jewish partisan fighter in the provincial command of the Garibaldi Brigades in Milan. ...
Enrichetta Alfieri was a nun who worked in the San Vittore prison. After the German occupation she helped the political ...
Ada Buffulini was a doctor and anti-fascist. She was interned in the Nazi camp in Bolzano where she managed to set up a ...
On 31 August 1942, Wiltz was the starting point for a nationwide general strike against the introduction of compulsory...
Under the chairmanship of Gauleiter Gustav Simon, the repressive occupation policy of the Nazi civil administration r...
The ’Battle of the Bulge’, December 1944 to January 1945, brought devastating destruction to the Northern part of Lux...
Born on 5 January 1921 at Berg Castle, the Crown Prince Jean left Luxembourg on 10 May 1940. In 1942, he voluntarily joi...
Grand Duchess Charlotte (born 23 January 1896, died 9 July 1985), was the Head of State of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg...