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PublishedNovember 11, 2020
Maine Voices: Shore leave welcome break for young sailors in World War II
A Mainer who served in the Pacific Theater remembers everyone sprucing up for time on liberty – and coming back to tell their tales.
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PublishedMay 24, 2020
Maine Voices: The example of Roosevelt and Willkie points the way for American renewal
The COVID-19 crisis is a time to rise above partisan rancor and nurture our embers of unity into a conflagration of common purpose.Â
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PublishedMay 8, 2020
World War II veterans mark V-E Day in Washington with Trump
Ranging in age from 96 to 100, they joined the president in a commemoration at the World War II Memorial.
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PublishedFebruary 23, 2020
Bill Nemitz: He picked up a WWII dog tag – and couldn’t let go
Thanks to a Royal Australian Navy veteran, a Portland soldier's legacy rises from the battlefield on which he died.
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PublishedNovember 17, 2019
South Portland memorial honors a WWII veteran known for modesty, valor
Captured multiple times and awarded a Bronze Star, Barry Scott didn't speak about his experiences because he didn't want to 'brag.'
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PublishedOctober 23, 2019
Dorothea Buck, Nazi sterilization victim turned artist and author, dies at 102
Buck was one of an estimated 300,000 to 400,000 victims of forced sterilization under Nazi rule, and described in recent years by the German press as one of its last survivors.
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PublishedOctober 2, 2019
Bella Tovey, who bore witness to Holocaust, dies at 92
She survived Nazi labor and concentration camps as a Jewish teenager in Poland, living to tell her story to the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum.
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PublishedAugust 20, 2019
French Jewish spy at 99: ‘I’m still fighting the same battles every day’
Marthe Cohn is coming to Portland to tell how she infiltrated World War II Germany for the Free French Forces.
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PublishedAugust 11, 2019
Maine Observer: Cape Cottage post office is gone, but the memories aren’t
In the 1940s, everything that kids loved or needed was right in their own neighborhood.
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PublishedJuly 10, 2019
Anita Epstein, who chronicled her infancy during the Holocaust, dies at 76
"Few babies or very young children, not rescued or hidden, survived," a historian at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum says.
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