How to Flee the Gestapo

Most of the displaced persons who had been taken from their home countries in western Europe as prisoners or forced laborers returned home in the late spring and early summer […]

Over 30 men and women of Dutch-Paris were deported to the concentration camps because they opposed the Nazis as resisters. They did not all end up in the same camps […]

In addition to 8 May 2025 being the 80th anniversary of the end of the Second World War in Europe, April, May, June and July 2025 are the 80th anniversary […]

By the time the Second World War ended in Europe in May 1945, most of the urban trees in parks and along streets had been cut down – often illegally […]

In a previous post I mentioned the possibility of false resisters making claims to having been in the resistance during the uncertain period of the Liberation.  It happened. Not often, […]

Here’s another story that turns on luck, sent to me by the son of an Engelandvaarder. This is a Dutch-Paris story in a very roundabout way. The Engelandvaarder, whom we’ll […]

One of the Comet escape line’s teenage couriers recently passed away at the age of 95. Like Dutch-Paris, Comet was also created by civilians. Unlike Dutch-Paris, Comet emphasized helping Allied […]

The Return of political prisoners, prisoners of war and forced laborers from Germany to France, Belgium and the Netherlands had slowed to a trickle by August 1945.   If someone had […]

Another effect of The Return of prisoners and forced laborers to France in the summer of 1945 that we’ve been talking about for the last few posts was a resurgence […]

There is no doubt that every former prisoner was happy to return home from the Third Reich in 1945. But those returns often held their own traumas. To begin with, […]