Lisette Moru — The young girl who refused to be silent .US
Lisette Moru — The young girl who refused to be silent She was only seventeen – but she refused to remain silent. Born on July 27, 1925, in a quiet corner of southern France, Marie-Louise Pierette “Lisette” Moru was the…
The Last Photograph – Omaha Beach, 1944 .US
The Last Photograph – Omaha Beach, 1944 It was still dark that morning, June 6, 1944, when the sea opened onto a horizon of fire and metal. The waves of the English Channel crashed against the landing craft, carrying with…
May 1945 – A silence that tasted of freedom .US
May 1945 – A silence that tasted of freedom When the last shots fell silent in May 1945, Europe was not yet jubilant. There were no fanfares, no joyous parades. A heavy silence reigned, thick with the smells of smoke…
The Career of Silence – Testimony from Mauthausen .US
The Career of Silence – Testimony from Mauthausen In May 1945, as the Western Front of World War II drew to a close, American troops entered the Mauthausen concentration camp . With them came the moment so long awaited by…
The sisters of Auschwitz – a liberation with a tearful face .US
The sisters of Auschwitz – a liberation with a tearful face In January 1945, as frost gnawed at the ground and the sky over Auschwitz was heavy with smoke and silence, two women, as thin as shadows, found themselves amidst…
Bread for a Stranger – Dachau, 1945 .US
Bread for a Stranger – Dachau, 1945 It was the winter of 1945, one of the last of the war, and also one of the darkest. Dachau, the concentration camp the Nazis had designed as a place of systematic extermination,…
The coats of Bergen-Belsen: when warmth became human again .US
The coats of Bergen-Belsen: when warmth became human again December 1945. Snow slowly blanketed the gray barracks of Bergen-Belsen, as if the sky wanted to bury beneath its white veil what the earth still refused to forget. The camp, now…
“Mendel – the boy with shoe polish ” .US
Mendel – the boy with shoe polish Mendel was born in Krakow in 1929. He was an ordinary boy whose life could have turned out completely differently if not for the war. He had a family, dreams, the sound of…
She Wore Her Sister’s Shoes to Survive Selection – 1944 .US
She Wore Her Sister’s Shoes to Survive Selection – 1944 The Holocaust remains one of the darkest chapters in human history. It is a time remembered not only for its cruelty and mass destruction, but also for stories of quiet…
Czesława Kwoka – a Polish girl who became a symbol of the suffering at Auschwitz .US
Czesława Kwoka – a Polish girl who became a symbol of the suffering at Auschwitz On August 15, 1928, in the village of Wólka Złojecka , in the Zamość region, Czesława Kwoka was born . She was an ordinary young…