Welcome Home: The Shift from Combat to Civilian Life
Jack Brukman’s journey through war: from the physical onset on Saipan to the continuous mental onslaught at home.
Jack Brukman’s journey through war: from the physical onset on Saipan to the continuous mental onslaught at home.
Even though the fighting ended in Europe with VE-Day on May 8, 1945, the effects of the war and its legacies continue up to this day.
Seventy-five years ago, in final days of World War II in Europe, Czech citizens and members of its resistance launched a final assault against the Nazis. The Prague Uprising lasted for five days, and came to represent a symbol of Czech resistance in World War II.
Theodor Dannecker helped Adolf Eichmann administer a continent-wide genocide.
Watch a moving performance of "Music from the Victims of World War II."
Omer Bartov’s Anatomy of a Genocide is a fascinating and cautionary examination of how genocide can take root at the local level—turning neighbors, friends, and even family members against one another—as seen through the eastern European border town of Buczacz during World War II.
Join us as we hear from Stanford Professor Robert Hamrdla, a world traveler and expert in German studies.
On the eve of International Holocaust Remembrance Day, hear the moving story of courage and persistence of French Jewish Spy Marthe Cohn.