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The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
When the Nazis came to clear out the Warsaw Ghetto, they were met with fierce resistance.
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Stutthof Concentration Camp and the Death Marches
Stutthof concentration camp was among the sites of horror caught up in this gruesome crescendo to Adolf Hitler’s war for racial supremacy.
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Dauntless: A Conversation with WWII Veteran Paul Hilliard
Visitors at the National WWII Museum had the special opportunity to hear from WWII veteran and Museum Trustee Paul Hilliard as he discussed his life story documented in the new biography, Dauntless.
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Lee Miller: Witness to the Concentration Camps and the Fall of the Third Reich
One of America’s only women war correspondents reports on the liberation of the concentration camps, Soviet and American troops meeting at Torgau, and Hitler’s burning villa in Berchtesgaden
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Lee Miller in Combat
One of America’s only female war correspondents reported on the aftermath of D-Day, the Battle of Saint-Malo, and the liberation of Paris.
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Lee Miller: Women at War
One of America’s only female war correspondents captured the war through women’s service.
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A Contested Legacy: The Men of Montford Point and the Good War
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Our War Too: Women's History Symposium
The symposium, which took place from February 29 to March 1, 2024, featured topics expanding upon the Museum’s special exhibit, Our War Too: Women in Service.
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Unaccounted For No More: Sgt. Harold Hammett
WWII US Marine Corps Sergeant Harold Hammett, fallen on Tarawa in 1943, is finally laid to rest in the family plot after 80 years.
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The Second Great Fire of London: 'A Dreadful Masterpiece'
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