Ontdek belangrijke gebeurtenissen tijdens de oorlog en de verhalen van hen die deze tijd meemaakten.
At the end of the Battle of the Bulge, the war was unfortunately not yet over. The melting snow caused the rivers to swe...
#Verhaal
On 26 December 1944, General Patton successfully broke open the Bastogne encirclement with his counterattack, in only fi...
Hyman A. Josefson was a first generation American, born in 1909 in Middletown, New York. He was the youngest son of Roma...
#Biografie
Born 31 March 1916 in Rosenthal, Silesia and naturalised in the USA, Warner William Holzinger was to become the first US...
Whilst there were no British ground troops in Luxembourg during the Second World War. The Royal Air Force (RAF) had been...
Captain Harry M. KEMP was born in 1919 and was a native Pennsylvanian (area of Scranton, PA). In January 1937, he lied a...
News spread of the liberation of Paris amongst Luxembourgers. With the success of the Allied breakout from Normandy and ...
With the rapid liberation of Luxembourg in September 1944 and the allied advance towards the borders of the Third Reich,...
#Verhaallijn
Marguerite Linden (maiden name Meier, born in 1921), lived in Bivels, near Vianden, on the Our river. She was suddenly p...
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 and a close friend of Hans Scholl and his family. She helped to p...
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 distrib...
Out of a great sense of justice, red-haired Jo Schaft went to study law in Amsterdam in 1938. During the occupation, J...
Fernanda Kapteijn was a teenager from Utrecht and a bicycle courier for the resistance. Women like Kapteijn were essen...
19-year-old Indonesian Evy Poetiray came to the Netherlands in 1937 to study. Three years later, the Netherlands was o...
One of the first decrees that the Gauleiter published was the introduction of the antisemitic Nuremberg Laws on 5 Septem...
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 ...
