Explore the critical events related to the war and the personal stories of those who lived through that challenging time.
The life story of Malka Zimetbaum takes us from Poland to Belgium and back to a tragic end in Poland. Today Malka is a s...
#Biography
Marie Vassiltchikov was a Russian princess, who wrote her Berlin Diaries from 1940 to 1945. These diaries describe the e...
Valery Faminsky was a Red Army photographer who made a number of photos during and after the Battle of Berlin. His warti...
Wilhelm Mohnke was an SS general. He commanded the SS guard units that protected the city centre and the government dist...
Vasily Chuikov was Marshal of the Soviet Union, who accepted the surrender of the German garrison of Berlin in May 1945....
Hans Fritzsche was a senior Nazi official of the Reich Propaganda Ministry who offered to surrender the city to the Red ...
#Storyline
Ignati Feodotovich Dementyev was brought into the world around 1 January 1908 in the village Chaadayevka, in what is now...
We now know him as X-2212. For after his death he became a number. An X-number. An unknown soldier, victim of a war that...
Andrey Mikhailovich Semychev (Андрей Михайлович Семычев) was born in 1917 in the village of Podvyazye in the province of...
It is April 2021 when in the Georgian village of Sabue, the relatives of Elizbar Chitashvili are finally located. 76 yea...
A day after she landed at Schiphol airport, after travelling from far off Kurgan, Zoya Kozyreva stood at her father’s gr...
Konstantin Grigoryevich Butorin was born in 1909 in the far east of Kazakhstan. At ten years of age he leaves the parent...
Daughter Alexandra: “My daddy was born in the village of Zudilovo near Omsk (20 May 1917). Since childhood he worked on...
His stomach is grumbling louder than gunfire in the fields around Smolensk, observes Kazikhan. Sure, the battles at the ...
The Merlinettes were the first female soldiers allowed into the French Army. Their unit was created in 1942 and they pla...
Private Sidney Cornell was a British parachutist that participated in Operation Varsivity in March 1945 in France. He di...
Audie Leon Murphy was the most decorated American soldier of the Second World War. He received every military combat awa...
Waverly Bernard Woodson Jr. was an African American corporal who came ashore on Omaha beach in Normandy on D-Day. Despit...
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