Two Women Connected Through Two World Wars I listened to The Alice Network as an audiobook. I must say the narrator, Saskia Maarleveld, was extraordinary. This historical fiction novel brought me back to our living room in 1955. That was where I listened to my great-uncle share stories of WWI with my father, who fought […]
WWII
The Resistance-The Women Who Participated
The Women of The Resistance Were Willing to Risk Everything During WWII, one thing was a certainty in every occupied country in Europe: The Resistance Movement was alive. Created for hiding crashed pilots and paratroopers who missed their targets, only the best were welcomed. The Resistance communicated when possible by radio. Operators learned how to […]
Memories of Buchenwald – Those Who Save Us
From Weimer to Buchenwald – Survival in Nazi Germany It was by choice that I read Those Who Save Us during the third week of June 2018. The constant barrage of stories about South American children taken from the arms of their parents at our southern border haunted me. They reminded me of the stories I heard […]