The Museum’s Digital Collection has been made possible in part by a generous gift from The Hearst Foundations.

An estimated 9,000 American Jews were held as POWs by the Germans. Their Jewish identity was a source of both pride and peril.

Once Hitler declared a place a "stronghold," his men had no choice but to fight to the death.

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World War II ripped millions of men and women from their homes and hurled them around the globe. Americans like Charles Willis Davis discovered, though, under the most extreme circumstances, that they possessed incredible courage and ability.