Berkeley, A Look Back: City swelters, endures wildfires in 1942 Berkeley, A Look Back: Residents step up to buy war bonds Berkeley, A Look Back: Remembering tragedy at Library Gardens Berkeley ...
I often wonder how American Jews celebrated July 4th in 1942 while millions of Jews were being murdered by the SS mobile killing units in Europe. Jan Karski was one of the true heroes of the 20th ...
In July 1942, Nazi Germany ordered the systematic extermination of the Jewish population in the Polish capital of Warsaw. Jews had been confined to the Warsaw Ghetto from November 1940, life was ...
Tatiana De Rosnay’s Sarah’s Key spent two years on the New York Times Bestseller List, and even longer than that on my nightstand before I finally read it. I regret not reading it sooner, as it ...
Of the original 500 magazines printed July 1942 that featured the American flag, this exhibition reunites 60 years later nearly 100 of these covers. Intended as a show of patriotism, national strength ...
“Today I received my call-up papers. I had already been deferred once and could have been deferred again, as I was working in the building trade and we were kept busy because of the bombing. As all of ...
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