Explore the critical events related to the war and the personal stories of those who lived through that challenging time.
Roosje Mozes was a Jewish girl who loved parties, especially her own birthday, enjoyed swimming in the lake the IJzeren ...
#Biography
In the summer of 1943, Suze Arts, a young unmarried mother, got a job as an SS Aufseherin (female guard) at Camp Vught. ...
The Nepalese Gurkha are an elite corps of the British army and are particularly known for their bravery and loyalty. The...
A partisan priest, he was an activist of the resistance in Val Conca, to the extent that his rectory in the church of Fa...
Eric De Lautour, from New Zealand, was a soldier in the 25th Battalion in the North African campaign and in the 18th Arm...
Kurt Rosenberg, born in Poland and of Jewish religion, was a soldier in the Second Polish Army Corps fighting at Cassino...
The war deeply affected the town of Monsummano Terme between 1943 and 1944 with a series of events: the German occupatio...
#Storyline
WWII deeply affected Castelnuovo di Garfagnana and its population, which suffered massacre episodes, Allied bombardment ...
Operation Wintergewitter was one of the last military campaigns carried out by the Wehrmacht and the National Republican...
Manrico Ducceschi was an Italian partisan in command of the 'National Liberation Army - XI Military Patriots Zone', whic...
Fulvio Zamponi was an antifascist and communist from Monsumano. Registered by the fascists in the Casellario Politico Ce...
Gino Lombardi was Versilia's first and most famous partisan. He came from an anti-fascist family, was an expert in the u...
Valoris Poli was a young Pistoiese sentenced to death by the fascists for renunciation of conscription and shot on 31 Ma...
On June 30, 1944, 60 women volunteers of the Mission militaire française de liaison administrative (Military Mission for...
Inigo Campioni's name is not well known outside military circles, but his story is one of the most dramatic in 20th cent...
Aldo Mei was born in Ruota di Capannori in 1912 and joined the seminary in 1925. During the war he preached against the ...
With the bombing of the La Spezia factory, he moved to Lucca. Here, after 8 September, he came into contact with some an...
Bogardo Buricchi, partisan and poet from Prato, gave life to a partisan formation. He died in June 1944, while blowing u...
Colin Eglin was a South African soldier who fought on the Gothic Line. After the war, he founded a party, was a leading ...
Peter Tompkins was one of the protagonists of the "war of spies" played out in occupied Italy. In the postwar period, he...
Long forgotten, the figure of Giorgio Marincola has been rediscovered in recent years as a symbol of the colonial crimes...
US General Mark Wayne Clark at the beginning of WWII was the main collaborator of General Dwight Eisenhower. He took com...
Mons. Giuseppe Maria Palatucci was born in Montella, in the province of Avellino, on 25 April 1892 to Giovanni and Carme...
Eugenio Curiel was one of the most brilliant and tragic figures of the Italian Resistance. A brilliant scientist but a r...