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An ID card made and delivered to Marcel Pinte’s family in 2013 identifies the 6-year-old as a member of the French Resistance in World War II.
It seems to have dawned simultaneously on many 95-plus year-old veterans of World War II that living. Search. ... A review of “The Art of Resistance: My Four Years in the French Underground ...
France's President Emmanuel Macron has paid tribute to former French Resistance activist and author Genevieve Callerot, who has died at age 108. Callerot, who was among the last survivors of the ...
Germaine Tillion, 100, a celebrated anthropologist and French Resistance fighter during World War II, who wrote about her experiences in a Nazi camp, died April 19 at her home near Paris.
The life of Henri Rol-Tanguy, a leader in the French Resistance during World War II, and praised for his efforts to liberate Paris, is recalled by host Liane Hansen and guest John Sweets, a ...
Arsène Tchakarian, the last surviving member of the Armenian-led Manouchian network, which fought alongside the French resistance against the Nazi occupiers during World War II, died Aug. 4 at a ...
But the poorly armed resistance couldn’t push the Germans out of their strongholds around the city. According to Julian Jackson’s France: The Dark Years, 1940-1944 , 901 FFI members and 582 ...
The documentary "Colette" is on the shortlist for an Academy Award. The film tells the story of 92-year-old Colette Marin-Catherine, a former member of the French Resistance who refused to set ...
MEYMAC, France (AFP) — A search began in France on Tuesday for the remains of dozens of German soldiers said to have been executed by French Resistance fighters during World War II.
Perhaps that is because the experience was, in retrospect, so strange, so out of time and place. Ms. Kochanski, a British historian, quotes Jean Cassou, a resistance leader in Toulouse who ...
Join the Program in Judaic Studies and the Center for Collaborative History to hear Renée Poznanski discuss her book, recently published in an English translation, Propaganda and Persecution: The ...