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Tag: World War 2

Our collection of biographical and historical fiction short stories, quotes and photographs from World War 2.

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French Resistance Operative Jeannette Guyot

Posted on September 25, 2022 by Historical Snapshots

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...

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Paul Grüninger Helps Save Jewish Refugees

Posted on February 17, 2022 by Historical Snapshots

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...

Photograph

Jewish people await selection at Auschwitz-Birkenau

Posted on January 26, 2022 by Historical Snapshots

Jewish people from Subcarpathian Rus await selection at Auschwitz-Birkenau, May 1944. — “Jewish people await selection at Auschwitz-Birkenau” source...

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A snapshot biography of Anne Frank

Posted on September 24, 2021 by Historical Snapshots

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 ...

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Jan and Miep Gies

Posted on April 8, 2021 by Historical Snapshots

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...

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A snapshot biography of Jackie Cochran

Posted on March 21, 2021 by Historical Snapshots

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...

Photograph

Warsaw Ghetto, 1943.

Posted on January 28, 2021 by Historical Snapshots

Warsaw Ghetto, 1943. Sources: National Archives and Records Administration / Wikimedia Commons.

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Sadao Munemori. A snapshot biography.

Posted on October 9, 2020 by Historical Snapshots

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,&...

Black and white historical photos/Quotes

Account of arriving at Manzanar Relocation Center

Posted on August 17, 2018 by Historical Snapshots

“When we got to Manzanar, it was getting dark and we were given numbers first. We went down to the mess hall, and I remember the first meal we were given in tho...

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Kazuo Otani earns the Medal of Honor

Posted on July 30, 2018 by Historical Snapshots

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...

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