In Izieu, France, Gestapo official Klaus Barbie crossed a final threshold of criminality.

The National WWII Museum welcomed a restored P-40 Curtiss Warhawk fighter plane into its growing collection of WWII-era warbirds at an official ceremony today. The aircraft, one of only 32 known remaining in the world, will be displayed in the Museum’s new pavilion, Campaigns of Courage: European and Pacific Theaters, in the exhibit Road to Tokyo: Pacific Theater, when it opens in 2015.

The National WWII Museum ended 2017 by smashing previous visitation records. In 2017, the institution welcomed 706,664 visitors – the most in a single calendar year since opening its doors in 2000. Additionally, on  broke its single-day attendance record by welcoming 6,642 guests. The previous single-day record of 5,553 was set in 2016.

San Francisco-based Taube Philanthropies has pledged $2 million to The National WWII Museum in New Orleans for the development of the Taube Family Holocaust Education Program, which will ensure public remembrance of the atrocities that led to the genocide of more than six million European Jews during World War II.

Find out the story behind one of the boldest defiant acts of World War II.