French Resistance Operative Jeannette Guyot
Jeannette Guyot joined the French resistance fighting Nazi occupation during World War II in 1940. Barely in her twenties at the time, she would take on many da...
Tag: World War 2
Our collection of biographical and historical fiction short stories, quotes and photographs from World War 2.
Paul Grüninger Helps Save Jewish Refugees
Paul Grüninger was a Swiss police commander who saved about 3,600 Jewish refugees during WWII by backdating their visas and falsifying other documents to indica...
Jewish people await selection at Auschwitz-Birkenau
Jewish people from Subcarpathian Rus await selection at Auschwitz-Birkenau, May 1944. — “Jewish people await selection at Auschwitz-Birkenau” source...
A snapshot biography of Anne Frank
Anne Frank loved to write. She dreamt of being a journalist one day. But when she was thirteen years old, her family went into hiding to avoid deportation to a ...
Jan and Miep Gies
Not long after their wedding, Otto Frank, her employer, asked Miep to help hide his family in a secret annex of the office building. The family was in danger as...
A snapshot biography of Jackie Cochran
Born in 1906, Jackie took her first job in 1912 at the age of six, working twelve-hour days in a Georgia cotton mill, earning six cents an hour. From there, she...
Warsaw Ghetto, 1943.
Warsaw Ghetto, 1943. Sources: National Archives and Records Administration / Wikimedia Commons.
Sadao Munemori. A snapshot biography.
After high school he worked as a mechanic. Then he enlisted in the army during WWII. “I think I did right by enlisting because my home is here in the US,&...
Chiune Sugihara saves thousands of Jewish people
“In life, do what’s right because it’s right.” Chiune Sugihara was the Japanese consul-general in Kaunas, Lithuania. In July 1940, Jews living in Kaunus were lo...
Kazuo Otani earns the Medal of Honor
Kazuo Otani was born in Visalia, a small town of a few thousand in California, to parents who were immigrants from Japan. He was living in the Gila River War Re...