world war ii
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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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PublishedJune 5, 2019
Leonard Pitts: On 75th anniversary of D-Day, consider what you’d give to save your world
The Americans who fought World War II weren't a perfect generation, but they pulled together on behalf of something bigger than themselves.
