How to Flee the Gestapo

Although the most common image of the Liberation of Europeans from Nazi Occupation 75 years ago is one of joyous celebration, we should not forget that tens of thousands of […]

Looking at the photos of the men and women and places of Dutch-Paris, I notice two things in general. The first is how ordinary the resisters looked. Not a one […]

For the younger set who have thousands of photos on their cell phones and who take photos with the cell phone to remember something rather than write it down, I […]

In the last post I asked how much a map of an occupied city can really show of what it would have been like to walk from one place to […]

I’ve been thinking about maps of Dutch-Paris. The line covered so much territory that the story needs many maps: Dutch-Paris’s routes through the Netherlands, Belgium and France; maps of the […]

I’ve had many occasions over the last two weeks to remember what my friend at the Dutch Red Cross Archives pointed out: an archive preserves the idiosyncratic organization created by […]

Just in case anyone thinks that the life of a researcher is glamorously exciting or satisfyingly contemplative, let me tell you about the day I had. I started out from […]

Let us pause for a moment on this 91st anniversary of the Armistice that halted the official slaughters of the First World War (1914-1918) to remember the men and women […]