Hannie Schaft was twenty years old when she started killing Nazis. Twenty. Using her youthful good looks, she would lure German officers into dark alleys with a smile and shoot them point-blank before ...
Paul Verhoeven’s Black Book is simultaneously a sexually charged, non-stop action movie about the Dutch resistance to German occupation in World War II and a bleak examination of the often morally ...
Seeing the film Schindler's List was a pivotal moment for Rob Prince, a moment that years later has led to his own Holocaust film. "I knew a little but not a lot about the Holocaust before Schindler's ...
Carel Jan van Oss joined the Dutch Resistance in World War II quite by chance. He only intended to help some girls he knew by making fake identity cards for them. “I was about 18, just out of school.
As the year winds down, we're remembering people whose deaths didn't grab headlines in 2018 but whose obituaries told fascinating stories. MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST: People such as Freddie Oversteegen.
For many visitors to these European museums, the acts of those who opposed Nazism and Fascism have become newly relevant.
In the final days before his execution in July 1943 at the hands of the Nazis, Willem Arondeus asked his lawyer for one last request: to spread a message after he was gone. "Let it be known," he said.
WASHINGTON — She was 14 when she joined the Dutch resistance, though with her long, dark hair in braids she looked at least two years younger. When she rode her bicycle down the streets of Haarlem in ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Selma Velleman (as she then was) departing for London in 1945: she later took British citizenship and worked as a BBC journalist ...