How to Flee the Gestapo

I mentioned in an earlier blog that the Nazis accepted guilt by association as sufficient cause for extreme punishment. This went so far that they had a policy of punishing […]

In addition to courage, conviction, and intelligence, resisters needed a certain amount of luck. Dutch-Paris is full of stories of someone ringing the wrong doorbell only to be told that […]

It took all sorts of courage from all sorts of people to create the Dutch-Paris escape line and to rescue almost 3,000 people from the Nazis. One sort was the […]

There’s no question that being active in the resistance to the Nazis and their collaborators took courage, firm principles and a quick wit. What, exactly, those looked like differed from […]

It’s easy to forget how long the Nazi occupation of western Europe went on.  All Belgium and the northern part of France, for example, were occupied from the summer of […]

Here’s some encouraging news for the new year.  Last March a Dutch woman contacted me about her uncle, who had been arrested in March 1944 and deported to the concentration […]

Last time we talked about the arrest of a local Dutch-Paris leader under a false name in Brussels. A very similar thing happened to another Dutch-Paris leader in Paris. This […]

Here’s another good question from the chat section of my WW2TV talk about Dutch-Paris. How did the resisters in Dutch-Paris who came from the Netherlands, Belgium and France and the […]

An extraordinary woman of incredible courage passed away on 11 December 2022. At only 19 and 20 years old, Joke (pronounced Yo-ka) Folmer guided hundreds of fugitives including downed Allied […]

The reports and images of Ukrainian women fleeing with their children, leaving their menfolk behind to fight are shocking and heartbreaking. But they should not be surprising. War is an […]